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There are no Gods. No creators. We are on our own. Live with it. Accept it. You are a master of your own destiny.

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Was Hitler a Christian or greatly influenced by it? A lot of people may disagree, but I say the evidence is overwhelming - Hitler was either a Christian, or heavily influenced by Christianity at least. A brilliant post by kachetiendg explains in detail why: Hitler was a Christian

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Kachetiendg: Hitler Was a Christian

Great post.

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The Beginning of the End – A Short Story by J Breen (2016)

The Beginning of the End – A Short Story by J Breen (2016)

In the beginning there was complete silence and darkness. It was so silent in fact that if a mouse farted, you would have been able to have heard it from a million miles away.

Without warning, and quite suddenly, there was an explosion so phenomenal and spectacular that if there was a mouse existing before this happened, it would have farted because of the shock of what happened so suddenly and…

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“All religious ideas should be open to criticism, mockery and ridicule”

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To live is miracle enough...

To live is miracle enough…

Last year in June, my partner and I went to see Derren Brown live in his current tour named ‘Miracle’. In case you don’t know who Derren Brown is; he’s an extraordinary English mentalist and illusionist. I urge you to watch some of his videos on YouTube, or 4oD.com if you can access it from the country you live in.

I don’t want to give too much away about Derren’s show, but it focuses on how…

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To live at all is miracle enough. The doom of nations is another thing. Here in my hammering blood-pulse is my proof. Let every painter paint and poet sing And all the sons of music ply their trade; Machines are weaker than a beetle’s wing. Swung out of sunlight into cosmic shade, Come what come may the imagination’s heart Is constellation high and can’t be weighed. Nor greed nor fear can tear our faith apart When every heart-beat hammers out the proof That life itself is miracle enough

To live is miracle enough - Mervyn Peake

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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Darwin

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A poem of mine called Alien Eyes.

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Decline in non-belief? I think not!

Decline in non-belief? I think not!

According to The World Religion Database, there will be a decline in Atheism and Agnostics from the year 2012 to 2050. Personally I don’t believe this for one second, but it was post shared by my father from a blog site called ‘thepoachedegg‘. The site itself belongs to a Christian apologetics ministry so I am suspicious of whether they omitted anything that came from this database. Sadly you…

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No silicon heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?

Kryten (Red Dwarf)

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Critical thinking...

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following : - understand the logical connections between ideas - identify, construct and evaluate arguments - detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning - solve problems systematically - identify the relevance and importance of ideas - reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values When someone is being rational, it is in accordance with reason or logic. To reason is to think, understand, and form judgements logically. Logic is the reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity. In science and statistics, validity is the extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real world.

All of the above is what religion does not entail.

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Marcello Truzzi