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Verses like Isaiah 13:16 and Psalm 137:9 clearly show that God endorses bashing the heads of children against rocks. Rape, it seems, is also permitted as divine justification for transgression. Does anyone reading this post support senseless killing of babies and raping of women, under any circumstance?

Christians like to argue that God’s ways are not our own and that we simply cannot understand why God does what he does. Yet, if this is true and God endorses what we normally conceive to be blatantly immoral acts, then how are we to know right from wrong? Do you think rape is moral? If not, then how is God endorsing rape suddenly moral?

Christians also like to argue that the Old Testament was written in a time when people were bound by Judaic law. But this explains nothing. Is rape moral if it is a punishment for breaking some law? Is bashing the heads of children against rocks somehow moral as well? How morally bankrupt must a person be to find God’s actions in the Old Testament morally justified?

Atheists Need Friends, TooNovember 13

The latest research on the correlation between religion and niceness. - By Paul Bloom - Slate Magazine

It is not hard to see how being left out of one of the dominant modes of American togetherness can have a corrosive effect on morality.

Ignorant or EvilNovember 13

If you believe in a god who would allow the Holocaust, then you are either willfully ignorant or evil and I have trouble seeing the difference.

Ayn Rand on Faith and ReasonOctober 30

ID = PanentheismOctober 26

You can now watch Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed online at Netflix. As of this writing, I have watched 36 minutes of this movie. So far, it is better than expected. It is entertaining and provocative. However, it is also not as good as I would like it to be. Granted that I have watched less than half of this movie, what it lacks is evidence for intelligent design and against evolution.

If you step back and approach the question of the possibility of a cosmic designer outside of any religious perspective, whether pro or con, then you have to ask how anything can create something out of nothing. Since this is an illogical presupposition, we are left with a conclusion that the only way anything could have caused what we now experience as reality is for that thing to also be part and parcel of reality. In other words, accepting the possiblity of a cosmic creator(s) is tantamount to being a panentheist.