The Greatest Lie Ever Told. Allow me to indulge in a hypothetical scenario for a while: there is a God.
Taking God as Given It doesn’t matter which God, so for argument’s sake let’s say he is Jehovah, Yahweh, the Holy Father - the God of the Bible and of the Christian faith. Of the hundreds of religions followed around the world, it just so happens that the Christians were right after all. God exists, and he is all-powerful and all-knowing. Therefore, he should be praised and worshipped and prayed to, for he made the Earth and everyone on it, so on and so forth. This may sound like a sarcastic joke, but I’m completely serious. The Best Poker Face Is One You Can't See We know so little about God due to the fact that he is far removed from our own points of reference, that we couldn’t possibly rule out any single motivation that God may have.
40 awkward Questions To Ask A Christian. Ten Stupid Things Theists Say. 1) Quoting From Their Holy Book Some theists quote scripture to non believers as if they were preaching to the pews.
Either these theists don’t know their audience or just don’t care about the futility of their actions. Do Christians care what verse 67:10 of the Quran says? Would Jews renounce their faith and embrace Krishna if they read the Bhagavad Gita? The only people who care what a particular holy book says are those who already believe the book is holy. 2) You’re Going to Burn in Hell That’s nice. 3) You Can’t Prove God Doesn’t Exist Well, that all depends on the kind of god being asserted. 4) Everything is Subjective So Nothing You Say Matters This one usually comes up in discussions on morality. 5) I’m Not Religious.
J.Z. 6) Who Created the Universe, the Earth and the First People? Saturnalia: The Real Roots of Christmas. Many Christians today believe that Christmas is a Christian holiday.
The fact is that people have been celebrating Christmas, long before the birth of Christ. The festivity was known then, as Saturnalia. Saturnalia was a festival in which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn. As winter approached, they were losing harvest & were in need of the sun in order for their harvest to grow & bear fruit. Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture and harvest. Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence. NOTE: For real proofs of the nonexistence of any god, see "Why Atheism?
" For other evidence, go to Atheists of Silicon Valley debate page . Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence Formerly: Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence Originally adapted from a forum on the Internet Infidels . TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. . (1) If reason exists then God exists. (2) Reason exists. (3) Therefore, God exists.
COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. The moral case for sex before marriage. Americans love to tout the value of waiting until marriage to have sex.
We teach abstinence-only education in schools across the country, and even comprehensive sex-ed programs often point out that "abstinence is best. " Pop stars from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson, to the Jonas Brothers, to Miley Cyrus, to Justin Bieber routinely assert that they're waiting 'til marriage – putting them into the Good Role Model category (at least, until someone leaks a sex tape). There's a booming "purity industry", complete with jewelry, elaborate events, books, t-shirts and DVDs. Our state and federal tax dollars have long been spent promoting "chastity".
While conservative commentators are happy to assert that waiting until marriage is the best choice for everyone and people who don't wait aren't doing marriage "the right way", sex-positive liberals hesitate to say that having sex before marriage is an equally valid – if not better – choice for nearly everyone. Christianity Disproved. When religious people attribute the acts of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot to atheism. Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot were not atheists, nor were their actions attributable to atheism.
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! Was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter" - Adolph Hitler It is a common talking point among fundamental Christians to attribute the horrors committed by infamous world leaders to atheism, and many times we are ill-equipped to refute those erroneous claims. In fact, in 2010, an Anglican Archbishop named Peter Jensen told his Australian congregation that atheism is not the rational philosophy that it claims to be. Atheist Foundation president David Nicholls says the comments are an act of desperation by the church. First of all, there is no such thing as state-imposed atheism. On Adolf Hitler… He was quoted as stating,