Stories and thoughts on belief, doubt, and letting go of religion
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 »
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
The God Delusion: 18 Years On Read Post »
