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  • I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist, but I have too much faith to be a Christian.

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    "Impact Apologetics" sells info products online on how to argue with Atheists. On the product description of one of their main products, "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist" (which comes in book, CD and MP3 formats) they have the following quote, which they claim is a Five Star ...

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  • What is blasphemy, and is it worth it? Questions about life, faith and meaning on International Blasphemy Day

    Atheism, Theology Permalink

    I started this blog about a decade ago, when I was young and bold and idealistic. I believed that everything should be challenged: especially beliefs that we hold dear, because they can be dangerous. Every idea, belief, and concept should be tested and either found strong and valuable, or weak and ...

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  • What kind of people are atheists? Behind the scenes at an atheist conference

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    I got up early the second day of the conference, took a coffee and a pastry from the hotel lobby, and headed to the convention hall in Springfield Missouri. There was a large crowd outside today. I smiled, eager to meet new friends - until I realized they were Christian ...

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  • Satan is Good, God is Bad: our shifting moral compass and why atheists are throwing the Devil under the bus

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    I went to Skepticon 5 expecting a group of heretics that would get a kick out of my inversed reading of Milton's Paradise Lost, which claims that Satan is the hero of the story (which was actually the mainstream reading before it became the "mistaken reading", and is now coming ...

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  • Religious Symbolism in The Grey (2011): An Overtly Atheist Movie?

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    The Grey (2011, starring Liam Neeson) is, on the surface, a man versus nature survivalist story about a group of man facing the elements and a pack of vicious wolves in the aftermath of a plane crash. However, this background is really just a platform to explore the movie's true theme: ...

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  • The Devil Inside (2012): the Truth about demonic possession, exorcism and Satanism

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    Any good Christian has to believe in demonic possession. After all, Jesus was always casting out demons. If the Bible and Christianity is true, then Jesus couldn't have mistakenly viewed mental illness using the common superstition of possession. He would have known better. So they're real. That basis has been the ...

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  • Did Jesus Exist by Bart Ehrman

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    In the book trailer for the new book "Did Jesus Exist", Bart Ehrman says "as a historian, I can assure you, that no matter what anybody else says about him, Jesus most certainly existed. There is as much evidence for Jesus, Ehrman continues, as the evidence for dozens of other ...

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  • What really happened on Easter Sunday – Jesus, suffering and guilt

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    My sister sent me the following chain letter, which goes into surprising detail about exactly how, physically, Jesus suffered on the cross. The point of the letter is to get you to feel his pain, which generates an emotional catharsis; it makes you first feel guilty, and then overwhelmingly grateful. ...

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  • Iraq militia stone youths to death for Satanistic “emo” style

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    Wearing skulls and dressing in black will get you killed - at least in Iraq, where dozens of teenagers have been stoned recently for wearing black and channeling Emo. "Emo" is a Western subculture that follows the revival of gothic and horror trends in society and literature, and also parallels ...

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  • Is John Carter Jesus Christ? Gods, Alien Technology, Atheism and Revolution

    Atheism, Blasphemy, Culture, History, Movie Reviews, Theology Permalink

    An online review posted about Disney's 2012 John Carter of Earth movie runs thus: "John Carter evokes pretty much every sci-fi classic from the past 50 years without having any real personality of its own." The essential thing to keep in mind, however, is that Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of ...

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  • Paradise Lost 2013 Movie: Who is the Hero of Milton’s Epic?

    Atheism, Blasphemy, History, Movie Reviews Permalink

    ***Oops - the movie adaptation of Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper has been canned as of February, 2012! It's a crying shame...Hope they revive it down the road.*** For the past decade, traditionally marginalized or "evil" characters have gained the limelight - witches, vampires and werewolves have changed from creatures of ...

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  • Making sense of St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument: Why it’s infallible, and also meaningless.

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    I first encountered St. Anselm's Proof of God during my undergraduate studies in philosophy and theology. I was at the time a struggling Christian, and there is a power and simplicity in Anselm's logical proof of God's existence that - once you get it - seems mystical. It dances around ...

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