The joy of being an atheist is to be wholly free in mind of any discussions that assert divinity. Once free you realise our ethics has to come from us, not diktat, tradition or history. You realise that every vile act that has been done in the name of religion is a human act devoid…
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Evolution
I am so over people saying evolution is just a theory equal to the theory that god created everything. The theory that god created everything means god decided life would feed off life with all the pain, fear, suffering and murder that entails. The theory of evolution proves we are animals, exhibiting animal behaviour despite…
There IUs No Such Thing As Good and Evil
There are just human beings. There is so satan and no god and no eternal cosmic battle, there is just an intelligent ape-like being grappling with its actions and not doing very well. Ascribing its actions to beings of immense divinity and power obscures the rationale it gives itself for certain actions. It foregoes any…
The Necessity Of God
Many years ago when I started to study divinity as a teenager at school there was a conceit amongst religious people that went something like; ‘If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.’ Leaving aside the strange irony obvious to atheists, hidden within the statement, it is one of those very…
The Subtle Storm
There are many people who look at history and see quite clearly the guiding mind of a god, citing the frequent times in history when an event benefiting human kind happened almost fortuitously. Most recent would be the election of Churchill when he wasn’t the front runner, to Prime Minister in 1940. Many others could…
Angels And Devils
We cannot go as far back as the first intellectual discussions human beings had about the world, but as far back as we are able to go we find reflected in our beliefs the dichotomy between good things happening and bad things happening. Born from the experience of everyday living and from the observation that…
My Theory, Your Poison
There is much discussion going on in America and in other centres of religious devotion, about Evolution versus intelligent design. On the periphery are those who accept evolution but believe it to be the mechanism used by a god to make life. And pointing to leaps in the evolutionary chain and other things, they even…
Trust Me To Lie
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could tell when someone is lying the way we can with a four year old? “Did you have sex with that women?” “No I didn’t and don’t pay any attention to the woman holding my trousers.” “Of course I never took that bribe and my bank account deposit details…
Light And God
My physics friend at University (don’t laugh we all had one) told me in his text books they a quote ‘And god said…” followed by the four equations Maxwell wrote on the nature of light. It made me think about the relationship between god and science in our minds. Of course if science is correct…