Archive for the Defining god Category
Published February 1st, 2010
Tract #67, Can God Be Both Merciful and Just?, is ready for you to print and hand out. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks!
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Can God Be Both Merciful and Just?
The Christian God is sometimes described as both infinitely merciful and infinitely just. But is it [...]
Published October 20th, 2009
Tract #39, What Is God?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks!
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What Is God?
What is God? As an atheist, you probably want to be able to answer this question before you get into an argument about whether or not [...]
Published August 27th, 2009
Tract #30, Is God Intelligent?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks!
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Is God Intelligent?
The Christian God is said to be omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good. Given these characteristics, is it possible that God is not a thinking being?
The argument [...]
Published August 26th, 2009
“Can humans decide to blow up a dam they built?” Why not? “Can an artist destroy a painting after he’s sold it?” No, not after he’s sold it. But God never sold humanity, so that is not a good analogy. An artist is certainly welcome to make a work of [...]
Published August 25th, 2009
Tract #29, Is God Good?, is ready for you to download and review. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks!
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Is God Good?
Most people with a Judeo-Christian mindset will tell you that God is good and that you should be good, just like God is. Unfortunately, they can [...]
Published April 7th, 2009
First off let me start off by apologizing. It was hard for me to not start off with a smart remark so per request I’ll tone down the humor.
“As an aside regarding your example, humans are scientifically classified as apes.” So we are apes? I don’t think so, at least not in the sense I [...]
Published March 19th, 2008
Yes, it sounds and looks like semantics.
God, to me, is the English word to describe a universal force. It doesn’t matter to me what that force is called – it still rules everything, including you and me.
I’m not sure how I feel about deities. I honour the Moon, for example. I recognise her as a [...]
Published September 19th, 2007
Hi again, thanks for your earlier reply, I’ll try to take things gradually.
On the bright side, college has been really great, I’ve told several people here, including my CA, who is a very devout Catholic, that I’m an atheist, and it doesn’t seem to bother them that much at all.
I did get into a bit [...]
Published September 12th, 2007
I was looking at some of the email you receive on your site and post up. Of all the things you get the most though, nothing makes me more of a misanthrope then when people insist on attacking you personally for your beliefs. All you seem to want to do it instill a sense of [...]
Published September 12th, 2007
Dear I Am An:
Thank you for your thoughtful and even-handed response. Perhaps you would like to read this and run it on your site.
[Thoughtful essay follows]
Unfortunately, I have a policy of not publishing essays (or links to essays) on my blog or site (for a variety of reasons, one of which is I get so [...]
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