The Frankenstorm is here and it looks like it will be affecting the area until Tuesday and maybe Wednesday. Prior to the storm, I had to take down my Halloween decorations from outside as I began the Frankenstorm preparations. Even if the storm is over by Wednesday, Halloween parades may be cancelled. If the storm hasn’t ended, Trick-or-Treating may be cancelled as well.
Tag Religion
I meet a lot of atheists and one thing that bothers me is when a fellow nonbeliever tells me that…
I have a lot of Facebook friends and while most of them are atheists, some of them are not. One person on my friend list posted a religious picture comment and I think it is worth having a conversation about
I got into a conversation with a Christian recently and he told me not to bother reading the Bible. He just wanted me to read the four Gospels. He told me that was all I needed to know in order to understand Jesus and be saved. I recommended to him that he should read the entire Bible cover-to-cover… if he could stomach it.
There are a lot of problems in the world and people get depressed either because of their biochemistry or because the world can be a pretty hard place to live in at times. Atheists often don’t have the support network that religious believers often have and so we can sometimes feel isolated and discouraged. But there is hope.
This is something we don’t like to admit, but it is true. There is a problem within the atheist community of depression and suicide. I know we would all like to believe that atheists are happier people than religious believers and in many ways we are. But we also have to accept the reality that in some very important ways we are not.
Atheists are often criticized for criticizing religion and for even mocking religion at times. This is seen as being mean…
People all over the world spend a great deal of money on religion. They give money to fund huge elaborate…
Recently some Twitter hashtags were created in relation to the multiple rioting in the Middle-East. The rioting has been a…
President Obama issued a statement concerning the US Embassy attacks in Libya and Egypt. Here is part of what he…