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In the big picture, is faith in God, revelation from God and prayer worth it?
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If people do good because they are human, not because God prompts them then is it right to risk giving God any credit when they alone own their good??
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Elective and therapeutic abortion are human rights
Afterlife is not a harmless concept
Antisemitism - why Jesus and the Christians are to blame
Why atheism is good and faith in God is bad
An Atheist's Values by Richard Robinson 1964
Baptism is not about the child but about religion
Bible isn't the word of God at all its the musings & lies of man
Gleason Archer Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties - its sophistry
Bible and its God are violent and evil
Download these books refuting religious lies
Reviews of books that expose the lies that comprise religion
When you make a claim your duty is to support it with evidence
Cut all ties with Christianity. It is anti-truth and illogical, you don't need it
Why you must help the Church to decline
Clergy sex abuse and how the Church never helped victims
Confession to sin to priests is degrading yourself
Against cults - all religion is a cult to some degree
David Hume laid miracles/religion to rest definitively
Every act is about myself - there are only self-described altruists
How to work out right and wrong - rule 1 keep faith out of it!
Mass/Eucharist is idolatry and riddled with immoralities
Nobody has right to spread unchecked miracle claims
Is evil more than just a poor standard of behaviour?
Exorcism and demons are forms of abuse and need banning
Is religious faith bad in the long run?
Lies about Mary appearing at Fatima in 1917
Forgiveness from God is a cloak for condoning the bad done to you
Free will is a guess & excuse for blaming us for evil not God
General refutations of the believability of miracle and magic
General reasons why you should defect from Catholic Church
God does not underscore morality - he undermines it
Atheism is the only real gospel - its the truth anyway!
The four gospels are untruthful and also slanderous to Jews
Handbook of Christian Apologetics - Kreeft Pacelli - is foolish
Miracle belief directly and indirectly leads to harm
Miracle healings are nonsense and dangerous nonsense too
Hell and Purgatory - They are not real so do not fear them
Faith in God is a screen for idolatry
Islam is not the true religion or a desirable faith
Religion drove and protected the Ripper
Jesus is an overrated and bad role model - admit the truth
Evidence for Jesus being real is not up to standard
Is Jesus story based on trickery and lies?
Cruel Old Testament law is still respected/validated by Christians
Knock apparition of 1879 is dubious
Be a person of principle and leave the Church
Atheism is the true friend of LGBTQ+ rights
Mary did not really appear in Lourdes 1858
Love sinner, hate sin is a lie and is passive-aggressive
Marriage is obsolete and anti-woman
General objections to Catholic veneration of Mary
Do you need faith in God or religion to feel your life is worthwhile?
Medjugorje is one of the biggest ever religious tricks
Historical methods downgrade miracle claims
Mormonism is the creation of men not God
Paranormal is suspect and why it matters hugely
Popes have stolen their role as head of the Church
Posts and comments refuting religion
Prayer is full of silliness and passive aggressive laziness
Priests are man-made roles and have no right to claim authority
Realities of suffering and evil make God unworthy of love
Nobody could ever really predict the future
Protestantism - is it the real purified Christianity?
Catholic ethics is full of contradictions and lacks credibility
Discarding the Catholic version of God
Why Roman Catholicism is harmful
Catholicism is a polytheistic religion and denies it
Religion soothes the violent and encourages them
Religion is just superstitious magic feigning intelligence
Jesus is dead - he did not rise again
Sacraments - they are occult rites pretending to be godly
Praying to saints is a mistake and many saints are not saints
Science and faith/religion are incompatible
Religion is sectarianism and based on unfair thinking
Secularism is a fundamental human right that religion damages
Turin Shroud is not a contact print and is not evidence for Jesus
Idea of sin needs to be abandoned - mistake would do
Being skeptical about miracles and magic etc
Stigmata and stigmatics such as Padre Pio - not genuine
God is a myth - he is not real
Questions and answers - challenging religion
Visions and apparitions in the Church are dubious
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Links to criticism of religious truth claims
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
As for Jesus the misogynist, we are told, “the historic Jesus treated women with
respect and consideration, giving them a place among his supporters and even
among his nearest disciples and apostles”. That would be shallow of him
considering he said it was a sin to revise or soften any Old Testament law in
Matthew 5 and a more woman hating law cannot be imagined.
He snapped at his mother at Cana. He was asked by her to help with the wine and
he said no and did it anyway as if to say, "I am helping but its my idea not
hers."
He let a woman debase herself by washing his feet like she was dirt with perfume
and tears and he forgave her sexual immorality. He did not tell her he forgave
her and to hold her head up high and that he would wash her feet. Feet washing
was the work of a slave.
He told a pagan woman she and her daughter were animals and thus risked racist
attacks on her for she was Canaanite. There is no evidence that this was an
object lesson and the gospel would say if it were. He praised her faith but this
faith was faith as in, "He has the power to do a miracle cure for my daughter".
He knew such faith is cruel to encourage as many do not get their miracles.
He disowned his mother in Mark for the whole family including her thought he was mentally disturbed - the crafty gospel does not tell us that in those days insanity was equated with possession. Jesus tried to make out that anybody who thought his exorcisms were satanic tricks was a lost cause guilty of a sin that would never ever be forgiven.
Magdalene is described as the first apostle to see his resurrection and tell the
disciples. In the gospel of John, Jesus appears saying to her, 'Do not hold on
to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and
tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your
God.’ Some hold that this was only Jesus' spirit. By ascending he is saying the
body had not being revived yet where ever it was. Early gospel strata shows that
resurrection and exaltation to God's presence, a form of ascension are two sides
of the same coin. So she did not see the risen Jesus. He is standoffish with her
as if he is all about the apostles and they get a different reception and Jesus
supposedly ordains them as messengers who forgive sins and gives them the Holy
Spirit. The other gospels only have the women telling the apostles to prepare
for seeing Jesus for themselves which makes sense in a culture where women could
not count as sufficient witnesses. Luke goes as far as to omit Jesus appearing
to the women. Mark has a forged ending where the women speak about the risen
Jesus but the original ends with the women saying nothing.
Jesus in an age where underage marriage for girls was the cruel norm. It was a
norm that meant most first time mothers died in childbirth as their bodies were
not ready. Though women could not divorce, perhaps for many of them were too
young to be able to assert themselves, he cruelly banned them from initiating
divorce. He blocked any conversation there. He blocked progress.
He did not stand with his own mother who was a mere child perhaps of 11 or 12 who owing to her hardship would have been more like an 8 year old and who was pregnant.
He had no right to even mention the sexual choices of the Samaritan woman to her
or tell her her religion was wrong. “Salvation is from the Jews and you worship
on the wrong mountain.” She was clearly under the "wrong" patriarchal"
authority. Alarmingly Jesus himself was oppressed by his leaders and he wanted
women subjected to that! It was patriarchy on steroids in those days.
When the adulteress was brought to him to see if he would agree with God's law
about stoning her, all he had to do was shake his head and walk away for those
who wanted to stone her were only a mob and only testing him and could not stone
her anyway. But he dragged it out and told her at the end she was guilty of that
sin meaning she could have been stoned legally later. He made sure this woman
was tormented.
He had a purse and there is no hint that it was ever used to feed any poor
woman.
Patrick H Gormley