For centuries, people have insisted that prayer works. Whisper the right words into the void and presto, cancer melts, floods recede, planes land safely, and Aunt Mabel’s bunions ease up. At least that is the pitch. Unfortunately, when you take this mystical hotline to heaven into a clinical trial, the results are about as impressive […]
The Power of Prayer™: Batteries Not Included Read Post »
The beach should be the most democratic of places. Sand, sea, and sun are offered to everyone equally. Yet one image etched itself into my mind: a man in shorts, skin bronzed, wading freely into the water. Beside him, a woman in a full black burqa, her body swallowed in fabric, the heat of the
Shorts and Burqas: A Lesson in Double Standards Read Post »
Every so often, a believer will set a trap disguised as a challenge: “Prove God does not exist.” It sounds like a debate, but it is really a rigged game. The demand is not only absurd, it is logically incoherent. We do not live our lives by trying to disprove unprovable claims. Nobody is expected
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Category: Ethics & Morality Introduction One of the most persistent and dangerous myths perpetuated by religious institutions is the claim that morality depends on belief in God. Without religion, they argue, society would spiral into chaos, lawlessness, and despair. This fear-based narrative underpins much of the resistance to secularism and atheism. But is it true?
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Is life still meaningful without a divine plan? To many religious believers, the concept of a godless universe is synonymous with despair. If no god created us with intention, if no eternal soul guides our actions, then surely life must be meaningless. But this conclusion, while emotionally potent, is philosophically shallow. Atheism does not erase
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Why rejecting divine command does not mean rejecting right and wrong The moral compass of the atheist has long been under suspicion by religious critics. Without the commandments of a god or the threat of divine punishment, how can an atheist distinguish right from wrong? The assumption lingers: if morality isn’t dictated from above, it
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Exploring the boundaries of meaning, morality, and purpose without belief in God The idea that atheism leads inevitably to nihilism is a misconception as old as the critique of faith itself. To many, the absence of belief in a divine being is synonymous with the absence of purpose, morality, and hope. But this conflation misunderstands
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When we don’t understand something, what do we do? For millennia, the answer was simple: God did it. Thunder? The gods are angry. Disease? A divine punishment. Consciousness? A soul gifted from above. Richard Dawkins coined the phrase: “The God of the gaps is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.” It’s a trap. And it
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Why do so many religions promise an afterlife? Christopher Hitchens once noted: “Heaven would be hell for me.” It’s a shocking phrase—until you unpack it. Heaven, in many traditions, is sold as an eternal reward: peace, reunion, joy, God. But look closer, and it becomes something more troubling. Eternal worship. No doubt. No challenge. No
Heaven Is Not a Place: The Afterlife Examined Read Post »
In 2006, Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion—a book that became a lightning rod for debate, outrage, and awakening. Eighteen years later, has anything changed? Dawkins dared to say what many only whispered: “We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god
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