A Thinking Man

In the early hours of October 25, 2007, 22 year old Emma Gough, a shopworker from Telford, UK, died.  She had recently given birth to twins, and held the babies as her life ebbed away.
She died, despite being in hospital with a team of doctors and nurses around her.  She died, even though her life [...]

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Religious people say to atheists: “Why don’t you leave us alone? Why can’t we be left to believe what we believe? Why are organisations like the National Secular Society, and people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris so angry with us and advocating that people should speak out against us?” The simple [...]

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I really encourage you to watch this clip, especially if you are tempted to be uncritical in your reading of the bible, or want to use the bible to inform your views on homosexuality.
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I am grateful to Roopster at de-converted for finding this material.

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The talking plastic Jesus recites three verses from the Bible - Mark 12:30, Mark 12:31 and John 3:16 - each lasting 11 seconds or less, as well as a 59-second telling of the feeding of the 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes.  It stands 30cm (1ft) tall and has a chest circumference of 20cm (7.75in).  [...]

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Please bear with me.  I know this story originally broke in July, but, 1) I wasn’t blogging then, and 2) it did happen in Australia, so it has taken a long time to reach me.  And it is too amazing not to mention here.  It is, really ….

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If you had a personal relationship with a divine being, wouldn’t you want to know what she or he wanted?  I mean, how can you have a personal relationship if the other being doesn’t communicate - certainly theoretically possible (just about), but practically very difficult.  I mean, I might need to know if God wants [...]

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The summer period marks an important anniversary for me. I used to be an evangelical Christian, and in the summer of 1966, I got ’saved’. I literally came out - I got up out of my seat in front of family and friends at a Billy Graham rally at the age of 13, and [...]

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