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Never Think about the Religion You Were Taught as a Child?
Yes, DO THINK about it: study and research it ceaselessly!
At the Methodist church I attended as a child in rural northern Indiana, every Sunday service began with a cherished hymn with these lyrics—as the choir walked down the middle aisle:
“Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trin Read more of this blog post »
At the Methodist church I attended as a child in rural northern Indiana, every Sunday service began with a cherished hymn with these lyrics—as the choir walked down the middle aisle:
“Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trin Read more of this blog post »
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Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
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The Christian Delusion
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2010
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God or Godless?: One Atheist. One Christian. Twenty Controversial Questions.
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2013
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The End of Christianity
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2011
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Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails
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2014
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Outsider Test for Faith: How to Know Which Religion Is True
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The Case Against Miracles
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Christianity in the Light of Science: Critically Examining the World's Largest Religion
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Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End
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Varieties of Jesus Mythicism: Did He Even Exist?
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“Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:
What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely agreed with each other? Even with this best possible analogy to subjective religious experiences we would still have a reason to think the lack of oxygen caused them all to hallucinate.”
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What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely agreed with each other? Even with this best possible analogy to subjective religious experiences we would still have a reason to think the lack of oxygen caused them all to hallucinate.”
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“Christians claim their faith gave rise to modern science even though the Bible literally contains talk of a six-day creation, a three-tired universe, a worldwide flood let loose from the firmament above, nine-hundred-year-old men, talking snakes and donkeys, a sun that stood still, and a hell in the deepest parts of the earth, and they still want to claim their faith gave rise to science?”
― Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
― Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
“After only a few minutes of back-and-forth questions their arguments always unravel—yet their conviction remains. One lesson I’ve learned from these years of public engagements with Christian apologists is that the arguments they offer for their faith are not the reason they have faith.”
― How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from an Atheist
― How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from an Atheist
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