A major misconception of atheism is that it lacks a reason to be moral-no reason for people to be good and nice rather than just doing whatever they want. In reality almost the opposite is true. I argue that atheism gives more reason and responsibility to be good people and that religion actually promotes evil. One may make the argument that without a higher power to judge and punish a person’s action then there is no reason to be moral. In Christianity for example, if you sin then you ...
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Christians limit their God. This is perhaps the most frustrating part of Christianity to me. It claims to have an all powerful, perfect, boundless God yet there are obvious examples of how He is limited in Christian teachings. Christianity claims that it has a loving God that is not only able to forgive us from our sins, but wants to. Here’s where the problem arises however, if God has any forgiveness or love at all, He has to have an infinite amount. Since He has this infinite amoun...
Sorry for falling off the face of the planet for the past week. I started a new job for the summer and the move in hasn’t gone as smoothly as I had hoped. Even right now, my internet isn’t hooked up and I’m writing in a computer lab. I’m surprised how cut off from the world I feel without my internet. I have no AIM, no facebook, no way to check what the weather will be in the morning (without watching the TV, but who does that anymore?), no way of checking out the news. It’s really a ho...
This post goes off one of the tangents mentioned in my last post dealing with God’s omnipotence. I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately and I cannot understand the point to Jesus, especially if you believe in a Christian God. The more I think about it the less he seems necessary or even plausible. First of all, the whole Jesus thing isn’t scientifically possible. The virgin birth, the miracles, rising from the dead: all of it just doesn’t happen. But, alright, I know how that’s the...
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus These are questions that man has wrestled with and religion has tried to answer for millennia. In America today, the most popular religion is Christianity and the God of this religion is very unique. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and ‘omnilo...