Amanda Marcotte on #faith, #fraud, and #Tariffs "What is this "sacrifice" [Paula] White [head of WH Faith Office!] wishes her followers to make for their safety and ease? Why, sending her a check for $133, which she implies will be returned to them many times over by God."

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/14/you-must-sacrifice-maga-excuses-for-trade-echo-prosperity-preachers/

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
―James D. Watson

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Theists:
Hurry, before it’s too late! Run to your house of worship and plead with your god to save you from…uh…from himself. #Nonsense

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The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
―Christopher Hitchens

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Theists:
If your god can’t think of a way to convince me he exists, should I be sent to hell for doubting his existence? If your god exists, who is responsible for the doubt?

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"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"

Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row

The nations with the highest homicide rates tend to be more religious; those with the greatest levels of gender equality are the least religious. These associations say nothing about whether atheism leads to positive social indicators or the other way around. But the idea that atheists are somehow less moral, honest, or trustworthy have been disproven by study after study.
―Greg Graffin

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Theists:
Is God in control or not?

Why would you pray to him for relief from the trials he himself brings?

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I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.
―Isaac Asimov

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Theists:
The universe is governed by physical laws. Show that they've ever been violated, then show it was a god, then show it’s the god you believe in.

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When he sacrifices himself, man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
―W. Somerset Maugham

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Theists:
If you want to know what atheism is, don’t ask religious folks who have a vested interest in misleading you. Ask an atheist.

Theist = holds a belief in god(s)
A+theist = doesn’t

That’s all it is.

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Happy Frīġedæġ (Frige’s Day), everyone!

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All Is In His Hands...For my Christian friends.

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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/all-is-in-his-hands-with-words-sharon-cummings.html

#christian #christians #christianart #christianity #universal #spiritual #spirituality #god #jesus #bible #bibleverse #bibleverses #scripture #scriptures #church #faith #hope by #SharonCummingsArt

I bought 𝑇𝑜𝑢ℎ𝑜𝑢: 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑚 and now Steam wants me to try “Faith” category games #games #art #anime #steam #entertainment #prints #faith #religion

The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.
―Annie Wood Besant

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Theists:
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence UNLESS evidence *that we can expect to find* is missing.

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In short, the god you’ve created is, in fact, undetectable by science. The limits of science are not the province of religious knowledge. Where science is ignorant, so is religion. The only difference is that religion lacks the integrity of science.
―Matt Dillahunty

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