Keep Your God Away From My Child!

I have a beautiful daughter. She is two years old. As parents, my wife and I have decided not to expose here to various concepts of god until she is old enough to understand those concepts and explore them herself. So far, she has taught me more about compassion, empathy, love and joy than religion (any religion) ever has. Read more

Baptism and Purgatory

I have been thinking a lot about my grandpa’s last wish for me. He wanted me to baptize my two year old daughter. Now, at one point I had told my parents that I would baptize her just to keep the peace, but that I didn’t have the same beliefs that they did and I would basically be lying. The only thing that my mom had to go on was the fact that if something were to happen to my daughter she would be welcome into Heaven. Well, now the Church has decided that there is no more “in limbo”, where children and babies would be if something were to happen and they weren’t baptized before they died. So now that the Church has decided that, does that mean that all of the little souls that were “in limbo” get a free pass into Heaven? Same goes for Purgatory. A few years back it was declared by the same Church that Purgatory no longer exists. Now, I went to a Catholic elementary school where we learned all about Purgatory. It’s where a soul went to repent before going to Heaven. The soul had to be pure, so when a loved one died we were supposed to pray for them and that would help them out of Purgatory and into Heaven. I was a little girl, and in order for me to really process that information I imagined that my prayers were like tokens, and when my loved one got enough tokens then he/she could buy their way out of Purgatory. So, like I told my husband, what happened to all of those souls when the Church decided that there was no more Purgatory. Did they get into Heaven on good behavior? If anyone knows I would be MORE than happy to hear what they have to say. Thanks!

Dawkins on O’Reilly

Radical Christian Bill O’Reilly “interviewed” Professor Richard Dawkins yesterday.

Dawkins got a total of a minute-and-a-half of a 4 minute interview to respond to O’Reilly’s nonsensical ramblings. Read more

The Jesus Myth Email Is Here!

Thanks to our partnership with Google, we here at The Jesus Myth are proud to offer our viewers their very own yourname@thejesusmyth.com addresses! These limited addresses have 2 gigs of storage and come with all the bells and whistles you’ve come to expect from Gmail. We are currently working on providing visitors with a customizable start page as well, which should be up and running within 24 hours. Read more

Atheism, Christianity, Tolerance

Let’s take a look at several reputable Atheist and Christian sources, and try to discover their stances on controversial, personal rights issues.

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WARNING: Disturbing Video, Graphic Nature

While I do not agree with the opening sequence of this video, I do believe that the majority of the video makes a completely valid point. The reason that I do not agree with the opening segment is that Trans-Atlantic slave trade was advocated by the Catholic church, the KKK operated under the guise of Christianity, and violence in Northern Ireland between Protestant and Catholics has produced many atrocities. Christianity has a violent past as well.

This video is graphic in nature and my disturb some viewers. Some may be offended by this video. Read more

New Site Feature

For those of you that have asked, it has been granted! We now have a discussion board up and running. It is open to all who wish to use it and registration is, of course, free. On the boards, you will find discussion boards set up for every post (with the exception of informational posts like this one), a board for conversing with the authors and boards for general discussion. Please feel free to use the boards and enjoy! You will find the board here as well as a link to the boards on every post next to the author’s name and date published labeled “Discuss This Post.”

Old-Style Tactics

So nice to see the “faithful” using the same tactics today to perpetuate their belief system and cram it down the throat of others. By the way, BEAUTIFUL language used by the “Christian” mom. I think that Jesus would have laid it out for his doubting disciple Thomas, had Thomas been just a wee bit more adamant.

Evolution And Universal Principles

Evolution is often attacked as “just a theory.” Despite the plethora of scientific evidence to the contrary, the criticism (wrongly, I think) persists. By explaining why we evolve in the context of the universal principles that gave rise to atoms, galaxies, and planets, we can, I hope, dispense with the attack on evolution as “just a theory.”

By analyzing the emergence of life in the context of universal laws (which are fixed and objective) we can draw conclusions about evolution, morality, and life’s meaning and purpose that are rational and incontrovertible. If we explore how these laws affect the shape and form of inanimate matter (particles, galaxies, solar systems and planets) we can establish a connection between life as a form of existence and the existence of the material universe.

Before life emerged the universe consisted entirely of inanimate material — dust, rocks, gases, dozens of elements in varying proportions. Matter exists because its form is persistent. This is not tautological! Many forms of matter do not persist (radioactive isotopes) and therefore exist in vanishingly small quantities. The material universe consists overwhelmingly of elements and forms that are persistent. This observation applies to macroscopic as well as microscopic material forms (planetary systems as well as hydrogen gas atoms). It is objectively true and provable; in our universe, where existence is governed by the laws of space, time and causality, things that persist tend to exist in greater quantities than things that don’t persist.

How does this apply to life and to evolution? All living things comprise matter, but can we really say that the meaning and purpose of a marmot relates to the form of a rock?

However, even though life is a more complex form of existence than inanimate matter, it must abide by universal laws and principles. The living form is a form of existence. It persists by sustaining itself and reproducing itself. With life, though, the form persists rather than the material instance of the form. Life goes on, even though the individual dies or the species becomes extinct. The living form evolves not through some quirk or fluke, but because evolution reflects the natural influence of the laws of space, time, and causality.

Evolution then is a phenomenon governed by universal laws that are rational, unchanging and complete.

The Workplace Religious Freedom Act

It’s 2:30am and you have just called a taxi to pick you up at the bar. After all, you have just closed the place with your friends on a Friday night and you want to do the responsible thing, get a sober driver to get you home. The cab arrives and you and your friends pile in. Two seconds later, you are forced out of the cab onto the very same curb you entered it from. Were you and your friends being belligerent? No. You were simply drunk. However, the driver of the cab is Muslim and it is against his religion to drink therefor he refuses to give you a ride due to the fact that you broke his moral code. Read more

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