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The Gospel of Reason documents articles of opinion written while bearing in mind the following:
- Science in face of rhetoric
- Logic in face of emotion
- Honesty in face of manipulation
- Beauty in knowledge in face of fear in ignorance
The writer is an atheist with an Eastern Orthodox heritage who likes to think of himself as a man of science (as opposed to a woman of science, he is fairly sure of this). A student of science, he is frustrated by the level of pseudoscience and manipulation vomited daily and the willingness of people to swallow it hook, line and sinker.
I’m opening up my personal email address to anyone who wished to contact me for any endeavour. I, of course, you wish to insult me personally, please just leave a comment here. I promise I’ll take it into account, but I really don’t want it in the email. Kthnx.
Interesting proposition for a blog. It makes for some interesting reading. Thanks for this resource.
No problemo! Glad to be read.
You may want to take a look at this page which answers these questions.
1. I’ve heard that carbon-14 dating cannot really be trusted to give accurate dates.
2. Is it possible that the moment of creation may be more recent because the mountains have not eroded away?
3. Why worry about the scientific accuracy of the Bible when it is clear that science and religion never mix anyway?
4. What I want is absolute proof for the existence of God. Why can’t any Christian give that to me?
5. I keep running into people who claim that Armageddon is just around the corner. But people having been saying that for decades. What do you think?
Here’s the link: http://www.swordandspirit.com/LIBRARY/FAQS/Q01_05.php#q1
You have a great site…hope to hear from you!
Alexander
TheScroogeReport.com
My humble answers on the spur of the moment:
1.- Even if carbon-14 dating has an accountable error margin, there are far more ways to date rocks and fossils than only carbon-14.
2.- I live in Spain. Spain is the second highest country in Europe after Switzerland, but as any tourist will tell you, it’s all flat. That’s because Spain used to be the continuation of a mountain range that stretched from Africa (and remains there as the Atlas mountains) well into the Massif Central in France today. Spain is littered with mountains, but the overwhelming majority of its territory is, well, eroded mountain. Other mountains, such as the Himalayas, were not ‘there’ to begin with, but are quite literally the product of a continental collision. The Himalayas are growing, for example.
3.- I’m not worrying about the scientific accuracy of the Bible - for a book which violates practically every physical law it’s no more science than any other bronze age myth.
4.- Because the existence of God is statistically negligible.
5.- Armageddon as the Earth will know it will come in somewhere near 5 billion years, once our star goes Nova.
eltower. it is easy to construct arguments from the extremes. there are plenty of people of faith who are rationale, considered, love beauty and honesty, decry fear and superstition, think logically etc. Faith and honesty, faith and logic, faith and wisdom etc are not incompatible. Sure, at the extremes, they appear that way, but you are conveniently skipping over a huge middle ground. It seems to me you are in danger of falling at the atheist extreme, which is just as violent a positon as the religious extreme.
Certainly, love, beauty and honesty are compatible with faith. Faith sometimes demands love of something which perhaps does not deserve it (Hitler’s Pope, anyone?). However, faith and lack of superstition are not necessarily compatible.
However, there is a danger in appealing to the shadow that is atheist extremism. If you wanted to find an atheist extremist, who forbade religion and enforced secularism with military might, look no further than the communists - people for whom I have nothing but the utmost disrespect, out of personal experience (I remind readers I am Eastern European of origin. Neither fascism nor communism inspire anything other than hatred in me).
Other than that, the Gospel of Reason presents what is purely the middle ground. I aspire to write articles always with the following guidelines in mind:
1. Science in face of rhetoric
2. Logic in face of emotion
3. Honesty in face of manipulation
4. Beauty in knowledge in face of fear in ignorance
How this is the top of a slippery slope to extremism is lost on me right now.
Thanks for reading!
Christianity has a particular problem with it’s concept of sacrifice.
If Jesus was convinced of immortality and even continued corporeal existence, then the “sacrifice” wasn’t such a biggie, and therefore has no redemptive power.
See my post for details
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GREAT website, this is the kind of thing I love (and write about occasionally) on my blog. I put my link below and I blogrolled you.
I noticed you also blogrolled Agnostic Atheism (a website where I am the only Theist contributor).
Justin
http://www.politics-religion.com
I love your information, and am passing it along to a good friend (who also vehimately argues the scientific “proof” of the Bible). We’ve decided (my friend and I) that at the end of the day, “faith” is not a scientific computation. “The Church” has tried to control people by forcing them to make faith a constant, controllable substance — something I doubt God asks us to do. Yes, I believe in God. But I’m also not about to force feed my belief to others — and I appreciate “thinking” people, regardless of their belief.
You have an interesting blog (with a sudden boost of traffic). God bless.
More fire!
Jas
http://www.morefire.wordpress.com
My perception of you is that your just another Jewish Talmudist with a formidable knowledge of Torah and antichristian Talmudism behind and that you use them as tools to spite religion,especially the Christian one.
You seem to be the sadly brainwashed one hiding Judaism behind atheism.
And where did you athiests ever get the idea that Christians think the earth is only 6,000 years old? That comes from Judaism. Check out the “Jewish” calender sometime. So why dont you target them instead?
Judaism is an interesting one.
Isn’t that about that guy Judas that is said to have betrayed Jesus?
You see, I always find the ending of Jesus’ life interesting as you can find a lot of sources that claim to have proof that he wasn’t even crucified, he had children and died of old age. Now that really hurts if that were true. And if it was ever found to be true than a lot of people owe Judas a sincere apology.
And it is funny how it seems that most of the power behind Christianity is derived from the miracles Jesus performed and his rise from the dead. It clearly indicates that many people missed exactly that what was most important about Jesus: Not his miracles, not his death, but his living and his teachings.
For me his teachings stand without all that miracle nonsense.
And ‘bgraef’ you taking such offense in this blog indicates to me that your faith in Jesus his teachings is weak! Or perhaps non existent. Instead you seem to hang a lot on miracles etc, why else be so defensive?
bgraef: My knowledge of Judaism is very weak. Being someone who refuses to talk about that which he does not know of, I couldn’t in all good conscience talk about Judaism. If you want to read Jew-bashing, I’ve heard of a rather notorious book written some time ago, but it’s in German.
For what it’s worth, I’m not ‘targeting’ Christianity. I’m not targeting anything! I’m promoting:
Science
Logic
Honesty
Beauty
As with everything, my life is a constant journey of learning so every time I learn something new I will feel more capable of talking about it.
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