Series
Myths About Fundamentalists
- Literalists (Unreliable definitions of fundamentalism)
- Theocrats (Not crazy about theocracy)
- Eschatology (It's the end of the world as we know it [or maybe not], and I feel fine either way)
- Jingoists (Of patriots and prophets)
- Who wants to be (able to identify) a fundamentalist?
- Why you can't always trust what "they" say about dwarfs and trolls*
Review of "The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth"
Bad Arguments (against theism)
- Burden of proof
- The problem of evil (a.k.a. the problem of suffering) [Part 1: Man's problem]; [Part 2: Ehrman's objections to the free will defense]
- Voltaire: "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
- Robert A. Heinlein: "One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak certainty of reason- but one cannot have both."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary: "Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man -- who has no gills."
- Bertrand Russell: "The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
- Philip K. Dick: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
- Thomas Paine: "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."
- Robert Heinlein, "Notebooks of Lazarus Long": "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
- Timothy Jones: "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: "An actually existent ant is more important than a possibly existent angel.
- Anonymous: "Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence."
- Quentin Crisp: "The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely that I can't go along with it."
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