Why Do Christians Celebrate Christmas?
My apologies if this has been posted before; I did a search and it did not come up. I think it's a powerful tool to refute Christians who ask you why you still celebrate Christmas if you're not a Christian. What makes this article a powerful tool is that it's written by a believer who presents the case, from a Christian perspective, why Christians ought to not celebrate Christmas. I suggest you share this link with all the believers who challenge you this holiday season. http://www.sovereigngrace.net/should.htm Get the Christians out of Christmas, and we can get back to c

My Dad Is A Pious Fraud
OK, I know this shouldn't anger me, but it does. Yesterday I was becoming almost livid mad, so I sequestered myself away and watched Star Trek all evening! Growing up, even though we were quite religious, we never said grace at dinner time. There was a brief period when my dad made us say the trite "god is great, god is good" crap, but I challenged it one evening, saying it made no sense and was probably insulting to god to recite some short poem instead of actually giving thanks. My dad looked at me, started eating, and from that moment on he never made us say grace before dinner. Fast foward 20 some-odd years to a Thanksgiving dinner 2 years ago. My

Pushing Shit Uphill
I recently managed to get myself embroiled in a rather pointless and directionless discussion about love on CAF (Catholic Answers Forum, for anyone who doesn't know). The discussion started out with a post claiming that the 'problem of evil' doesn't exist, because we can't possibly know the mind of god, and having a world filled with suffering may actually the best thing for us. Whatever. Anyway, my argument was essentially that it then becomes pointless to believe in god, since the world is just the way it is regardless. The thread then descended into a rather ridiculous tennis match with a rabid anitmaterialist who did nothing to support his case, but only ignored the argume

Argument From Observation Of High Profile Apologist Dishonesty
1. Christians like W.L.Craig as perhaps the best Apologist for Christianity and Theism. 2. For W.L.Craig, LOGICAL FALLACIES are the bedrock of his arguments. 3. W.L.Craig is a trained Philosopher. 4. Points 2 and 3 show W.L.Craig is a LIAR 5. Points 4 and 1, The best defense of Christianity and Theism is to LIE. 6. Therefore Christianity and Theism is INDEFENSIBLE. I hate conceptual philosophical apologetics, as opposed to evidence arguments, with a passion. I am frequently baffled how anyone could find this drivel convincing. Let alone gleefully promote it as some silver bullet that finally will get th

My Response To Apologetics
Recently I joined CARM, a christian apologetics site, specifically so I could respond to the argument posted on their home page. I responded in the forums under apologetics and afterwards discovered I was only supposed to debate in the special forums thread titled ATHEISM. whoops! Anyway this was the apologists argument: Why do Christians not obey the Old Testaments commands to kill homosexuals and disobedient children? by Matt Slick Critics of the Bible often cite Old Testament instances of slavery, violence against homosexuals, wiping out nations, etc., as evidence of a morally inadequate set of rules. They will also often ask why present-day