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A "Merry" Christmas? dbes02 41 views
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Multiple Christian Gods dbes02 154 views Another logical conclusion from the claims of Christianity. Of course another route is that there is no absolute morality. But each sect will say that they KNOW they h...
Incoherence of Free Will dbes02 254 views There is great debate about the topic of free will - does it exist? Here are some sobering positions... STEPHEN PINKER (COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGIST): If we really are totall...
Objective Morals dbes02 308 views A common claim by theists is that there cannot be objective morals without God. But are these morals objective in the first place? And how can Christian theists defend the ...
Just a thought - God and child abuse dbes02 150 views A proposition in one slide about the implications of religious belief.
Just a thought - Sin and childbirth dbes02 150 views A proposition in one slide looking at the implications of a religious belief.
Refuting the Ontological Argument for God dbes02 1,160 views yehosef1 has a video on the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God. He presents it in a logical format (IF A then B = IF NOT B then NOT A)). This is somewhat differe...
Is the 'God Argument' Simple? dbes02 263 views A response to istheretruth's video: "The simplicity of the god argument." Is the 'God Argument' simple? I show that the argument is poorly framed, includes unfounded as...
Rats Nest for Atheists? dbes02 58 views The nasty nature of several theists on YouTube is matched by their foolishness.

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FLYING THE BANNER OF NON-THEISTIC NATURALISM

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"Religious belief of all kinds shares the same intellectual respectability, evidential base, and rationality as belief in the existence of fairies."
AC Grayling

THEISM VS NON-THEISM
For too long, theism (and religion in general) hasn't had to deal with a strong vocal voice of atheism or anti-theism. It has certainly faced crises, the unbelievable incidence of Christian priests raping children being an obvious one. But there has been no high profile, consolidated front defending and rationality against the make-believe of religious beliefs.

The closest in the 'West' would be the way in which science courses in schools teach evolution - no self-respecting education authority is going to let creationism into schools (and while the Christians would have you believe there is only one creationist account, there are in fact hundreds!). That side of the issue has been more or less accepted as part of the woodwork and, amazingly, chunks of the religious front have reduced the problem for them by accepting evolution as compatible with their God (giving in?)

The release over the last few years of several books on atheism, some of which hit the best seller lists, has caused a major upheaval for theists because these led to anti-God attitudes and anti-God arguments being popularised. It's in the bookshops, in the newspapers, on the television. It's being talked about.

And some of the precious concepts around God have been battered by the likes of Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett and Harris; not to mention airing the dirty underwear of a number of religions.

The theist defence against the onslaught often has the air of anxious, flustered reaction. This is where many theists are on shaky grounds, because they have never had to defend their beliefs against such criticism. And the result?

Out come the tired old theistic arguments from Aristotle to medieval philosophers, to CS Lewis, to the more 'modern' WL Craig and Plantinga.

And the theist argument generally comes down to a 'First Cause', and the claim that 'God is uncaused' or 'God is spiritual and doesn't need to be created'. Hypothesis yes, but evidence? No, just unfounded assumptions, built on circular arguments and arguments from ignorance.

And if you criticse their position...well, damning atheists to hell is quite popular. But theists need to understand that they hypocritically ignoring that they are damned to hell for not belieiving in some other religion/god!

Well, that's my position, just to show there is another position out there. Not only is personal credibility (and feelings) at stake, but the very nature of who we are and how we got here!

IS THERE AN ANSWER?
Having said all of the above (making a statement for the 'other side'), and while we can discuss and debate (which is a good thing), we do all have our different beliefs (and not just about religion and God). And the bottom line is that we need to have secular, pluralistic societies, where everyone has the opportunity for equal rights.

The UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS says it all.

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