I pesonally believe in one god...i do believe that god is watching us...He rule this EARTH... He gave us a chance to make the Earth a better place to live rather than to live in Mars... He gave us food, oxygen, etc... I respect to those who don't believe to a God, is...
How's that headline? Do I have everybody's attention now? Good. Because a headline like that should get your attention. Would anybody tolerate "Gay Bashing Week" or "Woman Bashing Week?" The very idea is ludicrous. Yet, Dinesh D'Souza can print an article entitled "Atheist...
"First in a Series of Quotable Attacks on Upcoming Ben Stein MovieToday’s quote comes from a blogger responding to a suggested link to Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed."Ben Stein lost any...
The
Jesus Mythicist Position
By Rook Hawkins
(1) A Brief Introduction to the Revised Article
About a year and a half ago, I started a campaign to educate people about Jesus mythicism. When I had first started working on the campaign I was...
Response to Bruce Walker's "The Godless Delusion"Kelly O'Connor Bruce Walker's anti-atheist diatribe, printed in a magazine that touts itself as The American Thinker, is the ultimate in irony. This story is the clear byproduct of one who appears to be incapable of...
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Which Jesus?: A Legend with a Multiple Personality
Disorder
By Rook Hawkins
Recently I wrote an article on the genre of the Gospels,
and determined that the biographical genre of the Gospels is in serious
doubt. The Gospels can not longer be
considered a history of...
Tomorrow Shall You and Your Sons be With Me: A Look at
Ancient Ghost Stories and Hauntings
By Rook Hawkins
Ghost stories hold a special place in human culture. It has been given as evidence throughout the
generations of man as evidence...
I have faith (pun intended) that at some point in his studies, Paul
Davies has held a dictionary in his hands, and possibly even opened it.
These days, it’s even less cumbersome with the advent of online
dictionaries and the added benefit of providing multiple sources...
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Response to Katha Pollitt's "The Atheist's Dilemma"
From The Nation, Dec 3, 2007
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/pollitt
In this issue of The Nation, Katha Pollitt
posits that what people like to refer to as the "New Atheism" is
destined for failure. She...
Far too often apologists and evangelicals bring up Josephus as a source for a historical Jesus. This
is a continuing error among scholars, and it is fueled by secular
scholars who are either persuaded by pseudo-scientific evaluations of
the texts, or for reasons dealing...
By Rook Hawkins While
thumbing through the May/June issue of American Atheist (2007), I was
compelled to read an article written by Rick Hillegas entitled, It Doesn’t Matter If Jesus Existed. An
erudite and cultivating piece, the article presents a case...
Kelly O'Connor
Jan 30, 2008
...hypocrisy; cognitive dissonance; higher rates of STD infection,
teen pregnancy, abortion, and poverty; mass societal dysfunction; early
mortality; homicide; and, in rare cases, delusions and psychosis. Is
Living Under the Influence...
Kelly O'Connor Feb. 7, 2008
Not all Christians are supercilious, of course. Many are
content to live and let live, and some even grant that science (despite
its lack of supernatural entities) does some good. But Christianity as
an organized, evangelizing movement has...
Banning so-called atheistic books is a dumb move in my opinion. For someone to develop a solid world view it needs to be challenged. What are they so afraid of? (Answer: eternal damnation)."The...
CHURCH AND STATE...GONE WILD
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A Wiccan wreath next to a nativity display was torn down by a vandal Monday. The request to have a Festivus pole (see Seinfeld) has already been denied.
A Unitarian’s peace symbol...