Belief & Doubt

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Breaking: The Golden Gods of the Seven Moons Are Missing

A two-week impact assessment Two weeks ago, something unprecedented happened. The Golden Gods of the Seven Moons stopped responding. Not metaphorically.Not spiritually.Actually. No confirmations.No impressions.No quiet reassurances during moments of doubt. Faith lines went unanswered.Prayer queues backed up.Silence persisted. After fourteen full days with no confirmed divine contact, the Holy Influencers authorised an Impact Assessment […]

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God’s Plan Is the Last Refuge of Moral Cowardice

There is a sentence that appears with grim reliability whenever suffering becomes impossible to ignore. A child dies of cancer.A town is flattened by an earthquake.A newborn arrives with a body already failing.A pandemic sweeps through the old and the weak. And someone, somewhere, will lower their voice and say it. “It’s God’s plan.” The

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Articles, Atheism in Daily Life, Belief & Doubt

The 25 Most Common Religious Fallacies

And Why They Fail Under Examination Introduction Religious claims face a fundamental problem. They assert the existence of a god while lacking publicly verifiable evidence for that claim. This is not a minor gap or an unresolved detail. It is a structural limitation. Gods are defined in ways that place them outside observation, testing, prediction,

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The Rise of the Closet Atheist: Believers in Public, Doubters in Private

1. Introduction There is a growing group of people who call themselves believers yet live entirely as nonbelievers. They attend religious events, speak the language of faith and may even defend their religion in public. But when you follow their behaviour, their choices, their explanations of the world and their daily habits, something becomes clear.

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Why We Search for Gods: The Psychology, History and Human Need Behind Religion

Introduction: Humanity´s Oldest Instinct Every civilisation that ever existed created some kind of god. This is one of the most revealing facts about our species. It is not a universal proof of the divine. It is a universal proof of the human need for the divine. When early humans looked at a violent, uncertain world,

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Articles, Belief & Doubt, Life After Religion

The Last Bastions of Belief in the Age of Information

Why Islam and America Resist the Global Exit from Religion 1. Knowledge as the Great Dissolver Across much of the developed world, religion is not under attack, it is simply evaporating. The quiet revolution of information has dissolved the soil in which faith once grew. The more access people have to science, education, and open

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