Recent content by FwL

Science = looking at the preponderance of evidence and drawing conclusions. Christianity = admitting (or manufacturing) only evidence that supports a predetermined conclusion.

In my opinion, once you remove the resurrection from the story, who cares if somebody named Jesus ever lived or was crucified by the Romans? That's like saying it's possible that somebody named Jack actually lived, and he might have planted some beans. I don't really care what other people...

I doubt the claims of Christianity because those claims are absurd. The hypocrisy of Christians only makes me doubt Christians.

I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario in which tumbling head first would cause a person to become disemboweled.

The fact that the religious can't keep their beliefs to themselves.

The failure of Pascal's Wager is thinking that a person can just decide what to believe in order to hedge their bet on the afterlife, and that this is, somehow, going to get them into heaven, should Christianity turn out to be true.

Perhaps what he really meant was that the meek will find themselves face down in the dirt.

My mother. As she put it, she cried out to the lord and in so doing found the strength to transform her life. She was an alcoholic trapped in a physically and mentally abusive relationship with my father. Having accepted Jesus, she quit drinking and remained sober for the rest of her life. She...

When I did a lot of driving, I found myself listening to a lot of Christian radio. It's amazing how in rural America you can almost always find a Christian radio station when nothing else is available. At any rate, from listening to those stations, I was struck how often the word "idol" gets...

I once had a conversation with an elderly, Pentecostal Christian, neighbor who waxed nostalgic for the days when her husband, a retired police officer, was allowed to arrest homosexuals.

A good example of this is the movie 'Lilies of the Field' starring Sidney Poitier as an itinerant laborer/handyman who encounters a group of nuns when he stops at a remote farm looking to get some water for his overheating car's radiator. The Mother in charge of the group of nuns hoodwinks him...

You can either look at it as none of these people are getting in to heaven, or god favors the sly and crafty, so heaven will be full of these people.

The entire premise of the movie God's Not Dead rests on the atheist professor being mad at god for allowing his wife to die.

That, of course, would feed into the cliche that athiests are just mad at god.

Ummm.... Wouldn't god's intervention sort of go against everybody's free will?