http://www.freethinkingatheist.com Atheism, Skepticism, and General Cynicism :) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:37:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found this post in an IMDB Beowulf forum. He's arguing against somebody who claimed Beowulf has "anti-Christian" themes in it, and someone posted a rather enlightening & inspiring thought on religion as a whole:   Both Muslims and Christians have died for what they believe in - I kind of ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/03/15/to-love-each-other-a-little-more/     Yesterday, I attended a religious discussion event at my university. In a nutshell, the even creators intended on having a wide variety of religious world views present so that they could split them up where there was one religious view at each table. At each of these tables, there ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/03/05/coexistence/      I have to admit that what started me down the path of an becoming and Atheist is the Bible itself. The Bible forms the whole basis for Christian belief. Without credibility and validity to me, there can be no belief. From this point I ventured into doubt despite people ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/26/believe-what-you-want-just-dont-be-gullible-about-it/ In space, no one can hear you scream. Sound, a mechanical wave, cannot travel through a vacuum (nothingness). Without matter to vibrate through, there is only silence. Black holes are not holes or voids of nothingness. They are the exact opposite of nothing. Being the densest ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/17/so-exactly-how-important-is-nothingness/ Taken from the so-called "good book" that supposedly teaches good morals. Links to the actual passages are provided. And don't give me that "oh, it's taken out of context" nonsense.      1. Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, trim her nails, and give her ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/14/top-5-biblical-ways-to-acquire-a-wife/ From user comments to the NY Times editor:        Senator Barack Obama candidly admitted in his 1995 memoir that he had smoked marijuana when he was in high school. On the other hand, when George W. Bush was first running for the presidency, he consistently refused to answer ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/12/obamas-drug-use/     Funny how people can be such cynical conspiracy theorists about something as solid and known as how the Grand Canyon was formed, yet they choose to entirely overlook their religion and not question it at all. I mean really, think about it. If given two topics to choose from ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/12/grand-canyon-a-different-view/ I found this article that really puts the significance of our race into mind-boggling perspective. I cut parts out to shorten it up, original article/site can be found here. ------- How old are you? You probably think you've been around a while, that your 20/30/40/50 years on this ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/11/the-size-of-our-universe/ This little comic compares Science to Norse Mythology. This essentially pulls your subjective & positively biased presumptions of Christianity that you've been brought up with, completely out of the equation. By using Norse mythology, you suddenly realize how silly religious creationism sounds, not to mention how much religions parallel and ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/02/10/exposing-creation-for-what-it-is/ I'm sitting in USF's library right now trying to do homework. But my attention has been caught by 3 USF students sitting near me doing a Bible Study (from the book of Romans in the Old Testament.. if you were curious). They are probably the creepiest USF students I've seen ... http://www.freethinkingatheist.com/2008/01/12/go-ahead-propagate-hatred-against-your-religion-see-if-i-care/