Imagine, if you will, a bright young chap proposing an intriguing hypothesis for something. It doesn’t really matter what. What’s important is that it was a hypothesis that, at least on paper, sounded quite compelling. So, an Abstract was written, and following the Abstract some justifications for the probable truth of the idea were published… … Continue reading
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Take me home, home where I belong
Theism’s most potent, pervasive, irresistibly enchanting gift to frightened but otherwise sane individuals is a belief—a promise—that upon their death they will go home. Home: It is the most universal of things longed for. In a world so daringly deficient of equity, it penetrates every aspect of even the most primitive animal mind. It is … Continue reading
This is what happens…
Meet the Supreme Council of A-theists
Paranoia, meet theism. Theism, this is paranoia… your biological father.
Just so there’s no doubt: Anthropomorphic theism is about as natural as tennis rackets, ice cream cones and bikinis. It is neither automatic nor inevitable. No religion has emerged twice anywhere on the planet, no single deity has been envisaged by two populations separated by time and geography, and not a solitary person in history … Continue reading
Sorry Theists, but it’s an inalienable, unarguable truth
Now theists, listen carefully….
The Burden of Proof Like it or not, atheism is the default position. Theism is not automatic or inevitable. Theism is not natural. The gods all have to be learnt. They are new information superimposed over the default: a-theism. If this were not the case a single religion centred on a single deity (who we’d … Continue reading
