Category Archives: Faith

Hemant Mehta Gets Interviewed, Defends Reality

By Jesse Galef on November 17, 2009 in Atheism, Evidence, Faith.

by Jesse Galef
My friend Hemant Mehta (FriendlyAtheist) had a great interview with blogger Nancy Duke on the Chicago Coalition of Reason billboard, atheism, and religion. The questions gave away her semi-hostile position, but I feel like Hemant did a great job answering in a positive way:
ND: What is ChriFSMas?
HM: Christmas for the Flying Spaghetti Monster [...]

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Putting Faith in Its Place

By Daniel Florien on September 23, 2009 in Atheism, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Videos.

Here’s an interesting video about how faith is by nature unconvincing to reasonable people and has no place demanding agreement or punishing disagreement.

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Mom of Dead Girl Says Sickness Was “Test of Faith”

By Daniel Florien on August 1, 2009 in Christianity, Faith, Fundamentalism, Morality.

In March 2008, Leilani Neumann’s daughter was sick. She and her family prayed and prayed for the girl to get better, but she didn’t.
They thought their God was testing their faith. They didn’t want to show their lack of faith by going to a doctor. So the child died of untreated diabetes.
When she was on [...]

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10 Ways to Embrace Doubt and Find Truth

By Daniel Florien on July 14, 2009 in Apologetics, Christianity, Evidence, Faith, Fundamentalism.

A Guide for Doubting Theists
Shortly after I became a Christian, I saw a book about Jesus at the library. I couldn’t get enough of Jesus, so I brought it home and began reading. Excitement turned to horror as I realized it was arguing there was hardly any evidence that Jesus even lived, much less was [...]

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The Scientific Incentive to Disprove Evolution

By Daniel Florien on June 19, 2009 in Creationism / ID, Evidence, Evolution, Faith, Science.

Here is a good rebuttal to the idea that scientists have “faith” in evolution and don’t want to rock the boat, lest they risk their careers:
Science has always reserved its greatest accolades for those who prove what came before to be wrong, and every scientist in the world knows the best way to become famous [...]

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Oral Roberts, the Resurrection and the Life

By thegirlcanwrite on June 3, 2009 in Biography, Christianity, Faith, Miracles.

by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 7 of the Pillars of Faith series.
Empire of Miracles
He healed the sick, raised the dead, cast out demons, and said, Behold, I am coming quickly!
Jesus Christ?
Not this time. The Lord’s good buddy Oral Roberts, of course.
The Oklahoma-born Charismatic faith-healer Roberts had queues of thousands of sick waiting for his healing [...]

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