Some have suggested that God striked down the server that hosts godless.biz, and to be frank it has all the hallmarks of the all knowing and powerful deity we have come to know and love.
In typical fashion also God also took out approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers in the same datacenter. Given God’s track record of mass destruction when punishing sinners with earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis, plagues, crop disasters, landslides, etc, we expect there to be significant “friendly fire” when god takes personal time out to intervene. I guess it’s like Caesarius of Heisterbach of the Catholic church said – “Kill them all, let god sort them out.”
I am happy to report, science has once again triumphed. The clever computer boffins at The Planet were able to repair God’s handiwork and restore Godless (and 8,999 other servers) to their full glory. Take that you omniscient being!
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The Australian Christian Lobby are lying again. This time they are mischaracterising the Atheist Foundation of Australia’s “No Religion” campaign by stating (emphasis mine): “While the census data is rightly used to assist the government to plan for services and infrastructure, other groups, including some atheists, are seeking to push their agendas by encouraging people [...]
The excellent British broadcaster BBC 4 recently aired a fascinating program called “The Medieval Mind” which explores the philosophy, theology, and predominate thinking of the dark ages. The first episode deals with knowledge and revealed numerous intriguing insights into how the medieval mind determined epistemological truths. Monks, priests, and other godly people were in possession [...]
I flagged this video a few days ago, but only watched it this evening. It’s is not often we see ex-muslims speaking out against the “religion of peace”. What these people have done is extraordinary and brave given the fundamentalists attraction to extreme violence.
I want a god whose ultimate goals which do not necessitate the creation of mysterious suffering and death. I want a god who doesn’t violate causation by causing things to begin to exist from nothing in the absence of time. I want a god who does not give us “free will” then punishes us for [...]
“Atheism 2.0” is a 20 minute TED presentation by Alain de Botton in which he proposes a new approach to evangelising atheism. Alain suggests (apparently without evidence) that we have “secularised badly” and we should sift through the rituals, traditions, and behaviours of religion to identify and adopt their efficient mechanisms. “I have come here [...]
Atheists are often told by believers to read the Bible and it will all become clear. Trouble is, many of us have tried that and it doesn’t seem to have helped. Take these verses for example: This does not sound like a great night out to me. “But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master [...]