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60 Why do you Care?

10:14 AM

Skyshock

If you've ever dared to express your atheism in any public place, even if its just on a message board, chances are, someone has told you something around the lines of why do you care about what people believe?, live and let die man. Seems a very neutral, logical point of view, it's almost something i would agree with...if the religious weren't out there shoving their beliefs down everyone's throat, claiming that anyone that doesn't believe in what they believe is either a fool or has a "hole" in their life, threatening people left and right with hellfire, damnation and eternal torture in the lake of fire.

Socially, the table is tilted on the religious's favor, they are the good guys, the ones that promote morality, atheists are the godless beings that care for nobody but themselves, take social networks for example, on my personal Facebook as i've stated before, 100% of my family are balls out Christians, most of them don't believe in evolution because all they know about it is that popular image of the monkey to human scale, so constantly i have to read their posts asking for prayers for another family member or friend who is sick or is going through some tough times, some just love posting bible passages, or the occasional warning about how the end of times is near.

Posted in atheism, christianity, hell, islam, Religion

79 How I Lost My Faith

11:16 AM

Skyshock

Almost 10 years ago i saw a 4 year old girl die a very painful death, and that statement alone should cover it, i now believe that in a world supposed to be guarded and protected by an almighty loving god, nobody, specially a four year old innocent child should experience any kind of suffering, but it wasn't just that. That girl was my niece, we grew up on a very religious Christian family, with my grandma being a fundamentalist everyone else had and still has a very strong faith, the family is so big that we had at least two churches filled with relatives of some sort.

Back then i was around 13 years old and used to go to church every Sunday, there probably wasn't a single night when i wouldn't pray to god and ask him to please let me live my life fully and refrain from destroying the world like everyone at church said he would, i was most of the time scared about something, scared about doing something that would piss off god, scared of suddenly dying and ending up in hell, scared of ghosts, scared of witches, my favorite book was Revelations, to me it was some kind of epic war that i would probably had to participate in, since everyone kept saying how "the time was near".

Posted in atheism, christianity, Religion

44 Is Satan Working For God?

11:40 AM

Skyshock

You all know the story, Satan is supposed to be the bad guy, a castaway from god's angels, even though the only reference for this story is a vague bible passage that was, when placed in context, a message for a king, it is interpreted by scholars as the story of how Lucifer was cast away from the heavens and from then on began to wage war against god's creations. So, the question is always there, if god is omnipotent, why doesn't he get rid of Satan?, and therefore gets rid of most evil in the world, if he can't do it, then he isn't omnipotent, if he doesn't want to, then he is condoning evil.

Posted in atheistm, christianity, hell, Religion

13 Well, evolution is JUST a theory after all!

1:45 PM

Skyshock

Many of you have probably learned about the image above in school or have heard someone refer to it whenever they try to refute evolution. I'ts the idea that a hypothesis, turns into a theory and then when it gets enough scientific support, it becomes a law. It's all a load of bullshit.

A scientific theory, is a model of reality and the way it works, on the other hand, a scientific law, is descriptive in nature, like gravitation, if two bodies move away from each other the force of gravity between them decreases, a law doesn't tell us why this happens, it just does. Another fine example is how computers work, we know our CPU does all the work, our video card gives us an image on the screen by sending energy through wires and cables, again, we don't know exactly how it happens, it just does. Like when light goes through a prism and it separates into its component colors, it doesn't say why, the law of nature just says it does happen and thats where the theory of light comes along to try and explain whats going on.

Theory and law are two completely different things, one does not become the other. Some people like to say "its only a theory!" suggesting that we can't trust something unless its a law. Theories in reality, are backed up by tons and tons of evidence to support their case, they explain to us how laws work, what really goes on with the light particles, and what gravity does to objects. In fact, its only a theory that right now millions of electrons are going from my keyboard, to the motherboard, and up to the monitor, but, working with that theory will get me quite remarkable results and that indicates that the model, the theory, is very close to how reality works.

So, next time someone tells you that evolution is just a theory be sure to point out to them that the fact that they are not floating around on earth, is also just a theory, and that the fact that they own a working cellphone or computer is also just a theory. A theory is not a hypothesis. Theories are proven facts.