Stories and thoughts on belief, doubt, and letting go of religion
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, […]
The 25 Most Common Religious Fallacies Read Post »
Religions insist God is eternal. Self-existent. Immune to time, decay, and extinction. Yet beneath the confidence sits a question believers rarely face head-on: What is a god without believers? Imagine humanity wipes itself out. War. Climate collapse. A final silence. No prayers. No hymns. No scripture read, feared, obeyed, or defended. No one left to
If We All Die, Does God Die Too? Read Post »
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.
The Rise of the Closet Atheist: Believers in Public, Doubters in Private Read Post »
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,
Why We Search for Gods: The Psychology, History and Human Need Behind Religion Read Post »
1. Introduction There are few words that travel so confidently through history despite having no solid ground beneath them. Blasphemy is one of them. It sits at the centre of religious emotion, moral panic and political control. To believers it feels like a genuine offence. It feels like something dangerous has been violated. It feels
Blasphemy Is Not Real Read Post »
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
The Last Bastions of Belief in the Age of Information Read Post »
One of the most common responses I hear when I challenge the idea of God is: “Well, have you read the Bible?” The implication is that unless I have consumed a specific religious text from cover to cover, I am not qualified to question the belief. But this is a false requirement, and here is
Have You Read the Bible? Why That Is Not a Defence Read Post »
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 »
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
The Impossible Challenge: Prove God Does Not Exist Read Post »
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
The God of Gaps: Why Ignorance Fails Read Post »
