Monthly Archive for May, 2011

The Atheists Know

Published on May 31, 2011 in Creation and Devotional. Closed Tags: , , , .
‘Christianity has fought, still fights, and will continue to fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the Son of God. If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.’

G. Richard Bozarth, ‘The Meaning of Evolution’, American Atheist, p. 30. 20 September 1979.

 

An atheist believes

Published on May 27, 2011 in Creation and Devotional. Closed Tags: , , .
‘I have faith and belief myself. I believe that the universe is comprehensible within the bounds of natural law and that the human brain can discover those natural laws and comprehend the universe. I believe that nothing beyond those natural laws is needed.’ ‘I have no evidence for this. It is simply what I have faith in and what I believe.’

Isaac Asimov, Counting the Eons, Grafton Books (Collins), London, p.10.

 

A new Religion

Published on May 16, 2011 in Devotional. Closed
I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism … . It will undoubtedly be a long, arduous, painful struggle replete with much sorrow and many tears, but humanism will emerge triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is to survive.

J. Dunphy, A Religion for a New Age, The Humanist, Jan.–Feb. 1983, 23, 26, cited by Wendell R. Bird, Origin of the Species Revisited, vol. 2, p. 257.

Barking Mad!

Published on May 13, 2011 in Devotional. Closed
‘Oh but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn’t it? Symbolic?! Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual. Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than barking mad!’

Richard Dawkins – The full quote.

 

My Mother

Published on May 8, 2011 in Devotional and Family Happenings. Closed Tags: .

I have the finest mother That an boy could have; She cleanses all my scratches, And binds them all up with salve.

She fixes all my clothes, And doesn’t mind at all If I’ve torn my shirt Or outgrown it ’cause I’m tall

She helps me with my lessons, And takes the greatest pain To be sure I understand them, And my interest doesn’t wane.

She welcomes all my friends, And let’s us use her stuf; Poppin’ corn and makin’ candy, Till we’ve had enough.

She teaches me of God, And helps me understand The way to live to gain A home in heaven’s land.

No, I wouldn’t trade my mother For all the jewels of the earth; Cause there is no way to tell, What an awful lot she’s worth.