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Why don’t we allow 16 year olds to vote? We let them get jobs and pay taxes, but for whatever reason, we don’t seem to think they deserve representation. I find this odd considering our early aversion to a little thing called taxation without representation.
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The further and further removed from religion I become, the more and more ridiculous religious celebrations appear to me. I mean, Easter? The entire concept is utterly ludicrous. No man died and rose from the dead, much less for himself because he was his own father-son. Moreover, he wasn’t divine. He was just a good, charismatic liar.
Honestly, grow up.
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I despise being sick.
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The fact that we all have the same genetic building blocks strongly suggests a single point of origin for all of life. That we can trace our genetic heritage and cousinships in a hierarchical and expanding way which matches morphology, behaviors, and the fossil record helps to make the case for evolution one of the strongest cases for any theory in the history of science.
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I never hear more respectful, civil conversations about contentious issues than when I host a meeting for Atheists of Maine.
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The Problem of Evil goes something like this: There is evil in the world, God is responsible for creating the conditions for that evil and he knew it would occur, and so that conflicts with a commonly argued-for property of his – that he is all-good. There’s more to it, but that’s it in an eggshell. And I find it pretty convincing. There is a clear logical contradiction between the characteristics theists claim God has and what we actually see in real life. However, I often find people using this as an argument against the existence of any god. To me, they are in clear error. There is nothing which says a god must be maximally good or all-knowing or all-powerful. It could simply be that some powerful douchebag created everything and that’s all there is to it. This probably wouldn’t be a satisfying god for most believers because he doesn’t fit their all-too-common comfort-seeking, but there isn’t necessarily a good philosophical or scientific argument against such a being.
So, use the Problem of Evil against the Christian God and any other God with similar characteristics – there is no good rebuttal to it. But let’s stop pretending like this justifies a robust reason for calling one’s self an atheist.
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1. To believe without evidence is to believe randomly.
2. Faith is belief without evidence.
3. Faith is random.
(It’s also a scourge, but it’s harder to put that into such a simple form.)
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I can understand some of the support people have for gun rights. There are valid arguments to be had for why gun ownership should only be regulated within certain limits (at least in the U.S.). However, I will never understand why anyone supports the massively moronic NRA.
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It strikes me that the major reasons for our fiscal, economic, and military industrial complex problems trace back squarely to the baby boom generation.
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Christianity has something like 41,000 denominations. Now, tell me, how many does science have?
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For the Sake of Science 