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Kicking off a new series on the most popular spiritual questions asked Google. Pastor Scott and Pastor Chris want to interact with the questions that people ask from the privacy of their screens. In this episode, we ask why people are turning to Google instead of a community. Simply put, it is the growing e-privacy problem. We conclude that Google is not your god, and Google is not your friend.

Since 2011, there have been 64,000 Australians report that “Jedi,” is their religion when taking the census. It all began as a joke to get Jedi listed as a recognized religion, but the atheists are not laughing. They are upset because “it makes Australia look more religious than it is.”—Jim L. Wilson…

One of the chief apologetic arguments that atheism has against God involves suffering. How can an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, beneficent God allow innocent people to experience suffering. This is especially true for children. The following text is from the internet. It is the transcription of…

Listening to Atheist Richard Dawkins convinced him. He had been a Mormon, but as Richard Morgan read Dawkins’ book, The Blind Watchmaker, his faith was shattered. He became convinced that all he had been looking for through his faith was social acceptance. The book made it clear that there really was…

One modern philosopher admitted, “I want atheism to be true … It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and, naturally, hope that I'm right about my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that."”

You may, or may not recognize this picture. This is Francis Collins. He is a well respected geneticists who headed up the Human Genome Project as the Director of the National Institutes of Health. In case you’ve never heard of the Human Genome Project, it was the complete mapping of the Human DNA. The…

On one occasion a Communist was giving a lecture on atheism. All factgory workers were required to attend; among these workers were many Christians. They sat quiety hearing all the arguments against God and about the stupidity of believing in Christ. The lecturer attempted to prove that there is no spiritual…

Mon, Jan. 03, 2011 Posted: 07:14 AM EDT American Atheists erected a billboard over the weekend in Huntsville, Ala., that claims all religions are scams. The ad reads, "You know they're all scams" and pictures some religious symbols including the cross, the Jewish star, and Islam's crescent moon and star.…

A week after atheists rolled out their "Good without God" bus ads in Fort Worth, a blue mobile billboard truck appeared in the city declaring an entirely different message. by Nathan Black Posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 8:13 (EST) "I still love you. – God," the billboard reads. In a smaller font…

Wed, Dec. 29, 2010 Posted: 07:00 AM EDT Concerns about the face of Christianity have led a former atheist to form a non-profit to address the perceived hypocrisy of the church. The Texas-based non-profit Changing the Face of Christianity Inc. is a direct response to non-believers who believe all Christians…

Need proof. Well, just consider this top ten list of reasons that some reject evangelical Christianity: One blogger wrote: 10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized"…

While atheists routinely speak of the problem of evil, they usually don’t raise the problem of goodness. But if evil provides evidence against God, then shouldn’t goodness count as evidence for him? And wouldn’t that be evidence against atheism? From a non-theistic viewpoint, what is evil? Isn’t it just…

Associated Press A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five…

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion,…

The brain of every human being, from believers to atheists, has been revealed to contain at least three "god spots", all linked to religious beliefs and thoughts. A team of U.S. researchers has obtained strong evidence that religiosity is managed by the same parts of the brain that are used every day…

And many have tried the “sign” route to faith, only to be disappointed. Oliver Sacks did. He is an author and a Neurologist. He writes of his own religious experience: There had been some religious feeling, of a childish sort, in the years before the war. When my mother lit the Sabbath candles, I would…

A BEAUTIFUL ANALOGY! A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe…

An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it violates postal regulations against honoring "individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings." The Freedom from Religion Foundation…

The number of people who claim no religious affiliation, meanwhile, has doubled since 1990 to fifteen percent, its highest point in history. Christianity is plummeting in America, while the number of non-believers is skyrocketing. A shocking new study of Americans’ religious beliefs shows the beginnings…

l Story Highlights l Ads on D.C. buses say: "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake" l American Family Association reaction: "It's a stupid ad" l Pew poll from earlier this year finds 92 percent of Americans believe in God l Humanist spokesman says agnostics, atheists feel isolated during…

Newspaper article by this title on file in my folders (Newspaper articles) under the author's name (Mattingly). This article is one of many reviews that came out about the Golden Compass. This article specificially looks at the author behind the controversy, Philip Pullman.

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From: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/florry024.htm Is there a purpose to life? I know as soon as I use the word 'purpose' that I've made a mistake - I've fallen into the trap of using the concept of 'intention' which suggests volition or some kind of aim on the part of matter. That is…

Neither snow, nor rain, nor fire and brimstone will keep Joshua Witter from the swift completion of his appointed rounds come the end of the world. Witter, a 24-year-old self-described atheist living in Orlando, is the creator of the Post-Rapture Post, which bills itself as “the postal service of the…