Strega

Oh Simon, Simon…  The Bible is full of an angry jealous god who blights people for entertainment, anihilates swathes of people, drowned pretty much everyone, set bears to eat children, and don’t let me understate the smiting.  The word “laughter” is only present in that terrible book if you pluck it out of the word “slaughter”.   Calling it a bo…[Read more]

@Simonpaynton you have to be kidding me, right?  You’re using the Bible to support your theory?  So on this tiny blue dot, in a nano-moment of time, in a tiny corner of the tiny planet, a bunch of men collected the musings of another bunch of men, then selectively bound them and called them “The book” and this is your evidence?  I had to check tw…[Read more]

It’s a huge leap from Deism to Theism.  That there could have been a sentient creator is a conceptually feasible idea. That this creator then gave a shit about a tiny blue dot in its massive creation is highly questionable.  That human beings are then imagined not only to be the reason for the creation, but also involved in regular communication w…[Read more]

See Belle, I completely agree here.  If you’re not taking Gods word via a human interface, but listening inside your head, you’re pretty much doing what I do, but I think of it as consulting myself.  I’m not saying I’m right and you’re wrong!  I’m saying we have different interpretations for pretty much the same thing 🙂

@Simonpaynton The whole ‘thrive’ concept smacks of Ayn Rand, looking out for yourself.  The co-operation aspect is simply more Ayn Rand looking out for others only because it benefits yourself.  If it were not so, philanthropists would make up the bulk of our populations.  Instead, we have the opposite.

Humanity will most probably join the ot…[Read more]

Simon, there is not an evolutionary pressure to thrive. There is an evolutionary desperation to survive.  Thriving is irrelevant in nature as long as you live long enough to pass on your genes.

@Kyrani. “Both sides are using scientific arguments”.  I’ve yet to hear a scientific explanation for God – I hear the god of the gaps argument for things that science has yet to explain, but I’m fascinated with the idea that science backs religion in some way.  I thought religion was all about faith, and faith by definition was unsupported by e…[Read more]

“Neither here nor there”.  OUCH!!!!

Hermes, Hephaestus, Hera and Hades reject your blasphemy as the weak denial that it is!

(Horus doesn’t give a shit)

I have to say I do enjoy reading @Tom Sarbeck’s posts – if you’ve got the time, Tom, I’d love to hear more about your assertion that the universe didn’t start with a ‘big bang’.

What a beautiful post!  Welcome to the free thinking world of atheism :). I’m particularly glad that because of the internet, you were able to reach out and find information which would otherwise have been inaccessible in your home land.

It’s such an interesting insight, your history, as it enables people not from your area to get a better…[Read more]