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I'll be speaking at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, in Melbourne, Australia (March 12-14).
www.atheistconvention.org.au
I've just joined twitter. My name there is:
http://twitter.com/nonstampNSC
but I don't quite get the whole thing yet.
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I'll be speaking at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, in Melbourne, Australia (March 12-14).
www.atheistconvention.org.au
I've just joined twitter. My name there is:
http://twitter.com/nonstampNSC
but I don't quite get the whole thing yet.
Store: (you know you want it) http://www.zazzle.com/nonst...
About Me:
I don't argue that "god" doesn't exist. I'm not concerned about proofs, or likelihoods, or probabilities, of there being a "God" or not. Actually, I lean towards there being some kind of a creative force, though I would not argue for that being the case, and I have absolutely no idea of the nature of what such a "force" might be.
I argue against the idea that the Bible has anything to do with truth in the areas of divinity or spirituality. The Bible is a demonstrably revolting and appalling piece of writing. It is morally redundant, and so full of murder, revenge, punishment, war, and bigotry that it amazes me that anyone can even mistake it for being in any way "holy".
I used to be a Christian, but over the course of many long, miserable years, managed to get free of it. I didn't do much about my atheism until I stumbled across Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins making the case AGAINST religion, and I realised the detrimental influence that Christianity has had, and continues to have in the world. I now believe that Christianity, and religion itself, is worth acting against.
Ken Ham tells his audiences that they HAVE TO believe in Genesis, because if the Old Testament is false, then it stands that the whole thing is false. This principle is perhaps the only truth he has ever uttered from the pulpit. Yes indeed, if the Bible is NOT the one and only, perfect, divinely inspired message from the creator of life and the universe, then the Christian religion tumbles in on itself.
I believe that the Bible is WOEFULLY inadequate in living up to a claim of "Divine Authorship", or even influence, and therefore that anyone who uses it as a focus of their life, or a source of "eternal" truths and ethics, is sorely misguided.
Through my videos, I hope to have people question whether the Bible is JUST SO GOOD, so PERFECT, so WISE, so ACCURATE, and that the character of Yahweh is so BEAUTIFUL, so LOVING, so JUST, that the text itself cannot have been written by human beings alone, without godly influence.
Indeed not. The Bible bears the stamp of its lowly origins - the imaginations of iron-age, superstitious, bloodthirsty war-mongerers, determined to conquer and kill all the enemies they could, and all too willing to install fear and guilt into the hearts of their people, so as to more easily claim divine authority for unbelievable acts of cruelty and barbarism.
As for Jesus - yes, there's no doubt he is an amazing improvement upon Yahweh (except the minor detail about him announcing the eternal torture of the dead, which doesn't get mentioned in the Old Testament). But--- if Yahweh fails to meet the standard of being holy and perfect above anything an iron-age human mind could invent, then Christ's being the son of this imaginary character fails to be very meaningful. And besides, the best bits of what Jesus had to say were being said long before him, in places such as China and India (documented).
I could go on. Just watch the vids. Cheers!
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I'm now getting too many comments to be able to read them all. I always read PMs and replies to my comments. Forgive me if I don't reply promptly!
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House Rule:
I reserve the right to delete messages that contain appalling spelling and punctuation, yet are obviously written by native speakers who should know better.
This doesn't apply to apostrophe violations...
(You're = you are.
Your = belonging to you.
Got it? Good. )
... but that LOLcats--text message-style spelling?-- deleted the instant I fucking see it.
No apologies.
Yes, I am narrow-minded about this, just like biologists are narrow-minded about creationism.
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If you hate iMovie so much, how about using Keynote? Simply import your pictures using the media button and create slides. Once all the pictures and transition times are selected in the inspector tab, you can export the presentation as a movie file. Send me a shout if you have any questions. It took me a while to get a hang of iMovie and Keynote, but I can work with both pretty easily.
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I was wondering if you could tell us who is the composer of the symphonies you put in your videos... I really like them.