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#Biblebuffet
Protip: If you’re using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, don’t forget to stone to death any woman engaging in premarital sex. And not just your garden-variety stoning, either. You must gather all the people of the town at the doorstep of the woman’s father and kill her there. God is…
Read MoreRose City Park Church: The sign is real, and the message is fantastic, despite my suggestions for revision.
I assumed that this sign was a fake when I saw it, but no. It’s real. It’s also both shocking and refreshing. As a person who would like to believe in God and an afterlife but has been unable to do so, a logical, sensible, rational message like this makes religion seem so much more…
Read MoreStephen Fry explains what he would say if he was “confronted by God” and nearly knocks the interviewer out of his seat.
Regardless of how you feel about Steven Fry and his position on the Catholic Church and faith in general, you have to admire this answer on purely rhetorical grounds. It’s structured beautifully. But my favorite part is the look in interviewer Gay Bryne’s face at two or three points during this two minute video.…
Read MoreGod must be so angry about this.
Teenage pregnancy rates have dropped to the lowest levels ever recorded in the 73 years that the government started collecting data. The reason for this dramatic decrease? Not a decrease in teenage sexual activity. Those levels have remained stable for the past two decades. Not abortions. Those rates have been flat for the past 15…
Read MoreWhy I am a reluctant atheist
I describe myself as a reluctant atheist. Essentially, this means that I do not believe in God, but I wish I did. I have tried to believe. At this point in my life, I simply lack the faith required to believe. Despite reading the Bible cover to cover three times in my life, I have…
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