Okay, I've had a bad day of apologetics recommendations. I don't seek this stuff out, but in two separate places it's been recommended to me and so I'm being actively encouraged to get pi***d off.


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Y'know I'd never actually heard the argument put this way before. I'd always presumed that the connection between global warming and the rapture was that if Jesus is coming to redeem the world tomorrow there's no need to worry about the world running out of resources.

What hadn't occurred to me was that the believers in the rapture these days have ( Read more... )

I have to confess, I had a little problem with Hell. If we didn’t accept Christ there was only one outcome. Not that the youth leaders or clergy made a big thing about Hell that I can remember. No, it seemed more to be an idea left hanging in the air, the Voldermort of Christianity. We were all aware of it but it was rarely spoken of as sentences ( Read more... )

God, Obi Wan Kenobis piss me off. They have to know that they're totally bullshitting to the max, but they keep doing it anyway. Such outright contempt for straight talk, and people eat it up. I guess the boring old facts of life aren't ever going to be as OMG CAPTIVATING as the "secrets of the prophets" or whatever the fuck. Why is it that stupid ( Read more... )

lifeisacabaret posted this at atheistofftopic:

Hundreds of arguments for the existence of God.

I have no doubt that most people will have already read about P.Z. Myer's agonising time stuck reading Terry Eagleton's book. I actually find all this rather surprising since Eagleton actually writes quite sensibly in his articles on The Guardian website and I still hold that his scathing review of Dawkins' book was actually pretty good (notably he ( Read more... )