So, I’ll out myself. I’m an Atheist. I don’t believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don’t believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. Read on…
This week it was announced that Scotland, Vietnam and New Zealand are beginning the walk towards equal rights for all sexualities to be married. The Catholic and Anglican Churches of England are in full rout, barely able to take a stand for more than days at a time. President Obama of the US has come out in support of equal marriages as state after state brings their laws up to date. What began with a leak in the wall of Church-lead prejudice in the Netherlands has turned into a tidal wave as the Christian Churches fold yet again. Read on…
Release with me the time of day
from its responsibility,
leave high planetary matters
to follow themselves their various paths. Read on…
It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime!
If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?
In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.
— Pierre Bayle Read on…
Like any parent God created us To do the things he can’t himself. Can God wonder? Can God be surprised? Can God be given anything? In his image, yes. But looks can be deceiving. Can God wish? Can God fear? Can God dream? Can God forget? No wonder he is a jealous god. No wonder he flings down his commandments. No wonder he arranges all these coincidences, then snaps “I told you so”. No wonder he formulates the theory That … Read on…
One sometimes encounters people who assert that, unless there is a
God, life has no meaning. Now, as soon as we ask what they mean by
God and by the meaning of life we enter a quagmire from which it is
impossible to get out. Read on…
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Read on…
We are all God’s children
And this is sibling rivalry.
These wars, free enterprise
all bids for attention. Read on…
“The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they’ve realised they can’t get away with it.”
–W. H. Auden Read on…
GOD is an ideal concoct,
The Force, the Power, the Almighty,
The Big Brother, the king of the kings,
The white bearded guy living in the sky. Read on…