Not being seen allows a god to have much greater powers without the human analog constantly being bothered to perform miracles. The Priests still get bothered some, but they can simply promise to “put in a good word.” They can also much more plausibly ask for money than can someone claiming to be omnipotent. – [...]
Collective idea-organisms turn men into tools to be used for the survival and growth of the Collective. This explains why people, who would not normally hurt a fly in their own homes, can be made to travel half way around the world, to risk death, and to kill people they have never met, in defense [...]
It is important to these idea-organisms to maintain the status quo where the powers of individual humans are concerned. The environment in which they evolved included many human limitations. And it is not clear that they can continue to survive in a world in which individual human beings gain more power – a world in [...]
Our book explains how these Higher Powers operate and why their goals are rarely aligned with your best interests. Please note that God is only one of many “Higher Powers” that affect people’s lives. We choose to pick on God in the title, because God makes claim to being the highest of all Higher Powers. [...]
God espouses the highest ideals to which we can aspire. The gospels teach peace, love, and understanding. Yet, differences in how a spiritual being who embodies these divine qualities is worshiped are regularly used as excuses for war, hatred, and prejudice. Governments promise us peace and prosperity, yet send us off to die in foreign [...]
From the time it started blowing money on abstinence-only education in 1981 (under the Reagan Administration) the US Government has spent from $4,000,000 (1982) to $214,300,000 (2008) every year funding this prohibitive lesson – and it adds up quickly (moreso with Bush policy funneling more taxpayer money in and finding ways to issue grants to [...]
Jerry Adler reviews Life After Death: The Evidence by Christian apologist Dinesh D’Souza: If your smart-alecky kid, full of all that Galileo stuff they get in school nowadays, should ask just where this Judgment business takes place, D’Souza provides you with a response. It happens in the multiverse, the infinitely multiplying complex of worlds predicted [...]
Prosecutors said Daniel concocted a remedy known, among other names, as “C-Extract” that she claimed would help treat cancer and other afflictions such as multiple sclerosis, hepatitis, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Some of her patients were drawn to her from her appearance on TBN’s “Praise the Lord.” Daniel told viewers she collected herbs from [...]
ENGLISH: HERESY via Cynical-C Many great points, all explored ad nauseum by agnostics or atheists and all refuted ad infinitum by fundamentalists… though I hold no love for the clergy, I am far more concerned with the driving forces behind religion. Yes, it is concerning that there are people willing to step in and guide [...]
The practice of relic forgery was not uncommon in medieval times – a handful of knucklebones and a good story were common features of the carnival sideshow-esque routine which put coins in the pockets of corrupt clergymen like Chaucer’s pardoner: Thanne shewe I forth my longe cristal stones,Ycrammed ful of cloutes and of bones;Relikes been [...]
