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To Christians: What is morality to an atheist?

Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Morality, Skeptical Thought, Supernatural on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

By far, the most common argument I see made against atheists is that while they have moral standards, they do not have a defense of morality and therefore are “borrowing” from a Theistic (e.g. Christian) worldview every time they make a moral statement. This is presented as evidence that atheists have an internal contradiction in their worldview whereby they are not allowed to make any moral statements because they cannot account for the origin – or source – of morality.

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Why Some Men will Never Leave the Faith

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural, William Lane Craig on July 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »

There is nothing like losing all ability to distinguish whether it is the Holy Spirit or a demon speaking to you. Only then did I realize that my spiritual experiences could not be trusted – all of them. And then when I discovered I had complete control over the voices, their presence, what they would say, and when they would say it did I realize that it was all in my head. I personally think it would take something like this to knock some sense into a person like William Lane Craig.

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Leaving Faith: It’s not About Arguments

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Morality, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural on July 7, 2009 | 235 Comments »

It is not about the arguments.

In order for a person to leave a faith, the perceived value of leaving the faith must exceed the perceived value of staying.

Evangelism, then, is the art of marketing an idea’s value. Good evangelists dance the dance of making God’s wrath hotter and God’s salvation sweeter. The greater the perception of God’s wrath, the greater one’s perception of God’s salvation. Conversion is ones entrance into a social structure whose entire end-goal is to fine tune and balance this perception of God’s wrath and God’s salvation so that the greatest number of people convert and stay. Those faiths that achieve this balance between threats and rewards most effectively will survive and reproduce.

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The problems with the Bible as God’s Word

Posted in Bible Errors, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Skeptical Thought on March 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »

1) Saying God’s Word is inerrant or infallible is pointless because interpretation is subject to error. What is the point of a god who makes an inerrant or infallible book and then gives the Holy Spirit to help interpret it if believers themselves still do not know what most of it actually means or if [...]

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Skeptic / Christian cross-talk

Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Christianity, Skeptical Thought on March 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

All last year I had an internal battle going on. On the one hand, if someone could show me that the Christianity I grew up with was true, I wanted to listen and was willing to admit I was wrong about becoming an atheist. On the other, I was only truly hoping they would have [...]

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