Archive for the ‘Defining god’ Category
Tract #68: When Does Satan Get Credit?
Tract #68, When Does Satan Get Credit?, is ready for you to print and hand out. Download it, see page #3 for printing instructions, and let me know your comments! Thanks! 068_satan-gets-credit.pdf When Does Satan Get Credit? Imagine that there is a horrible jumbo-jet crash. The huge craft plummets from the sky, smashing into a [...]
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Tract #67: Can God Be Both Merciful and Just?
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! 067_merciful-and-just.pdf Can God Be Both Merciful and Just? The Christian God is sometimes described as both infinitely merciful and infinitely just. But [...]
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Tract #39: What Is God?
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! 039_what-is-god.pdf 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 [...]
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Tract #30: Is God Intelligent?
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! 030_god-intelligent.pdf 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 [...]
Is God Good
“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 art and then destroy it, [...]
Tract #29: Is God Good?
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! 029_is-god-good.pdf 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. [...]
Faith in atheism
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 [...]
In: Bible, Defining god, Discussion, Evolution, Morality, Theology
What is a deity?
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 [...]
September 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 [...]
In: Dealing with religious folks, Defining god
September 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 [...]
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