The Prodigal Atheist

 Christians burned witches and heretics. Think about that for a second. Are "witches" even a real thing? To Christians they were, and are, even if to everyone else they are simply projections of Christian fear masquerading as love of their brand of a "God." Why didn't God show those Christians who were burning those witches the "truth" about what they were doing? Well, apparently for the same reason that same God never revealed to those Catholic parents what some of those Catholic priests were doing to their own children: because witches are no more real than the Catholic conception of God. Ironically enough, like the witches they accused of magic and burned as necromancers, it is the Catholics who use sacramental hocus pocus to transform bread and wine into divine flesh and blood of an Apollo like man-god, that they then claim to eat and drink as a way of curing themselves of the sin-stained soul their own God assured they were born with, ...

Christianity has long demonized homosexuality as a sin by convincing its followers that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is the Bible's version of America's 9/11, with the divine attack being not only intended as punishment of homosexuals and all those who tolerated them, but also a warning to all future generations of God's willingness to nuke whole cities over who is kissing whom. Christian morality, as such, is based on the idea that it is right and good for God to firebomb whole cities for a "sin" that such an infinitely enlightened being freely chooses to be offended by, despite having created such homosexuals, and the entire universe in which they live in the first place. It's as if such a God created the universe for the sole purpose of creating something to be angry about.  In fact, this very same "God" is just as offended by the homosexuals he alone is responsible for creating just as much as he is offended by anyone who refuses to accept tha...

 Christianity changes how we see other people, from being ends to being a means to an end, from  being people who we treat as we ourselves wish to be treated by others, to being people we treat in a way we think will save us from being mistreated in the next life by a God.

I can think of no greater form of violence to anything worthy of being called truth, and nothing more offenseive to nature, morality, and reason, than that Christians teach their children to love and worship a God who, rather than creating them with all of the perfection that any worthy parent would, created them instead as born sinners, and all so he could eventually butcher his own son to death for their spiritual deformities in order to establish a new and updated brand of religious proscribtions for the spiritual deformities that same God "intelligently designed" all children the worldover to be born with. The special brand of spiritual deformities such a God is said to have designed all human children to be born with, which the Christian religion calls "the stain of origian sin," are the sort that can only be fully forgiven by accepting a lifelong enslavement to the new brand of religion God wished to begin through the brutal murder of his own son. That bruta...

HOW CHRISTIANITY PREVENTS US FROM KNOWING THYSELF BY CREATING A FALSE SELF Consider the emotional and intellectual confusion and insecurity that religion installs in the minds of children by requiring beliefs in both an undefinable word like "God" and in things like an eternal soul. This results in teaching the child they are, at least on one sense, actually immortal, and having to meet God after they die amounts to teaching them they will be sent to the principle's office when their lessons here on earth have completed, to determine if you have passed or failed. The problem with getting a passing grade, they are subsequently taught to believe, is that the immortal soul they are born with is morally defective because it is marred by the stain of "original sin." And because it is, the child must fear it is destined to fail the test of life, and will therefore have to spend the rest of eternity in hell after they die. The only way to escape this fate is if - an...

Understanding the Different World Views of Christians & Atheists Perhaps the best way to understand why Christians and atheists see and interpret “miracles” differently is by understanding the difference between how two physicists looked at reality itself and saw two very different things. Those two physicists were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, and while one studied the motion of planets, the other studied the motion of subatomic particles.  Looking through the lens of classical physics, Einstein saw how planets operated in the universe in an orderly manner, obeying definite deterministic laws of Newtonian mechanics. For the Christian, those laws were written and set in motion by the hand of God. Bohr, on the other hand, saw something different. He saw the world through the prism of quantum physics, where reality itself was indefinite, animated by the unruly hand of a nature that, like the Christian God murdering the whole world with a flood, seemed free to ignore the laws ...

 Recently, a pamphlet was dropped at my house from a local Christian church. "God wants you to be 100% certain when you die you will go to heaven," it said. Of course, the pamphlet leaves out the fact that the Bible also says that no such certainty is available to us, for we are all condemned to, as the great St. Paul assures us in Philippians 2:12-13, "work out our salvation in fear in trembling."  Despite this glaring omission, the pamphlet goes on to assure the reader that there are several things a person must "know from the Bible to be 100% sure" you will go to Heaven and not hell. The first and most important of these is that "you are a sinner and you don't deserve to go to heaven, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)." This reminded me of a classic nineteenth century fairy tale about an ugly duckling. It is the story of a duckling who, when hatched along with his brothers and sisters, is ridiculed ...