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Penn And Teller call Bullshit on Mother Teresa (feat. Christopher Hitchens)
She wasn’t a friend to the poor, she was a friend to poverty, who fetishized suffering.
Bill Donohue (Pres. of The Catholic League) admits: “Oh, absolutely. Mother Teresa wanted people to live in impoverished conditions, so that she could identify with the poor whom she’s serving.”
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Christopher Hitchens delivers one of his most comprehensive smack downs on religion in his big debate with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was a recent convert to, and defender of, Catholicism.
The proposition they are debating: Is religion a force for good in the world?
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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Islaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallalalllaalallalalalalaallalam!
Steve Carell vs. Steven Colbert - Which religion is right, Islam or Christianity.
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One ideology to rule them all
No, but, a religion is never inherently bad or vicious, IT IS COWARDS AND MANIPULATORS WHO TRY AND USE RELIGION TO JUSTIFY THE BAD THINGS THEY DO.
Just so happens that religion, with it’s unprovable truth claims and its appeals to authority and divine revelation, is the PERFECT tool for cowards and manipulators to justify the bad things they do and to make good people to go along with them!
While there are many innocuous tools for self discovery and social cohesion, religion just happens to be one with the worst propensity for abuse.
Like The One Ring, it should be cast into the fire to prevent it from constantly falling into the wrong hands, as has been the case for millennia.
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Christian apologist William Lane Craig uses some sophisticated theology in an attempt to refute the axiom that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence by arguing that accepting the winning lotto numbers as reported by the evening news is comparable to accepting the miracle claims of Christianity as reported by the Gospels. The reason he gives is that any combination of lotto numbers is as improbable as, say, the resurrection of Jesus.
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Do You Need a PhD to Understand the Bible?
Do you need a PhD to understand the Bible?
Short answer: yes.
But a longer answer is called for. And the longer answer includes the fact that you need more than one PhD to understand the Bible.
When I say you need a PhD, I don’t necessarily mean that you yourself need to earn a PhD, much less several. But you will need multiple people with PhDs involved in the process. You will not understand the entire Bible without people who have expertise in Hebrew and expertise in Greek. Not just a smattering, not just a copy of Strong’s concordance or an interlinear. In order to get from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek text to an understanding in English, you need linguists, experienced translators, and also scholars of history who can clarify cultural and historical references, all involved in the process.
Not enough to deliver your divine word via text to an audience which has been almost completely illiterate since the dawn of civilization, nay, one must also make that message so complex that a legion of scholars is needed to try and decipher it. Placing not only scribes and priests between this god and his subjects, but an additional layer of academic arbiters. Making so that even the few literate people have a hard time getting it right.
An awfully curious method of communication for an omnipotent god with a message of vital importance; one that claims to spell the difference between eternal salvation and eternal damnation. He might as well communicate by riddles. In fact, a great argument can be made that that’s exactly what we have: Something between a riddle and Rorschach test, that claims to be the objective truth about the meaning of life.
(Source: azspot)
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Sean Faircloth: Science, Atheism & the Joyful Life
The good news of atheism.
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But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels
and the apes were armed killers besides!
And so what shall we wonder at?
Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
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Our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished.
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen.
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It’s called…growing up!
Although the guy in the photo is sort of umm… weird.
Stephen Hawking…
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High ResolutionThis is an inconvenient passage for many Christians that only applies when dealing with homosexuals.
(Source: atheistjack)
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A.C. Grayling: The Unconsidered Life
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"There is no time to give the history of this belief in devils. It has been universal. The consequences have been terrible beyond the imagination. Millions and millions of men, women and children, of fathers and mothers, have been sacrificed upon the altar of this ignorant and idiotic belief."
Divine Irony
is a rich archive of religious delusions, scientific truths and political implications.
"Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."
-George Carlin
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed”.
-Albert Einstein
