A Christian Youtuber has made eight arguments for the existence of God. He thinks that if even one works, that will be sufficient to prove God. But none work, as I explain here. Note that I have written subsequent posts in which I have considered some of these arguments in greater depth.
Here are two long videos on the seven deadly sins: wrath, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Whether or not these are sins against God, they are moral vices that can ruin lives. The first video introduces them, and the second analyzes them as vices of excess or deficiency.
Like television shows in the same genre, religions tend to follow the same formula. This provides a tool for comparing and contrasting different religions.
Creationists are always quick to try to debunk biological evolution, but I have never heard of creationists trying to debunk linguistic evolution. Yet the Bible clearly states that different languages came about by intelligent design, not by evolution. In the story of the Tower of Babel, God changes the languages that the workers are speaking, so that they can no longer communicate with each other.
I saw a Muslim video that claimed women should wear hijabs, because not wearing them led men into the sin of lusting after them, and this made women guilty of a double-sin, not just once, but for each man they attracted. The idea was also expressed that revealing their attractiveness by not wearing a hijab caused men to feel tormented.
Evolution is an algorithmic process, and the algorithm it uses is so simple, it doesn’t even need to be programmed.
A creationist website has posted 15 questions for evolutionists. Here are my answers.
I was reading an article called Dismantling the Secular Case Against Gay Marriage, which referred back to an article called The Secular Case Against Gay Marriage. I don’t think I was convinced by either argument. The arguments provided against gay marriage were not that great, but the person arguing against the secular case against gay marriage claimed contradictions where there weren’t any, …
In Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
