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Noah's flood is a heinous story

There are a number of events that take place in the Bible that Christians don’t really evaluate carefully enough. The Ten Plagues of Egypt constitute one of these stories and another one is Noah’s flood. There are many problems with the story of Noah’s flood that render

A Great Myth about Atheism

This has come up in conversation on the last thread, and being in second day of my Russian chemo, I thought I'd repost for your delectation: This post was one of my most popular pieces on my previous blog, and I have, over time, revised it slightly to

The Myth about Atheist Atrocities and Numbers of Dead

Many years ago I had a habit of watching a huge amount of debates and between atheists and theists. I do less of it these days as I just don't have the time. However, there was a stage where I watched a number of debates by the now

A Great Myth about Atheism: Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot = Atheism = Atrocity - REDUX

This post was one of my most popular pieces on my previous blog, and I have, over time, revised it slightly to make it even tighter, reacting to previous comments on the last version of this piece. I have tried to be detailed enough for it to be fairly comprehensive,

A Great Myth about Atheism: Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot = Atheism = Atrocity

For Hitchens and co, religion does little good and secularism hardly any evil. Never mind that tyrants devoid of religion such as Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot perpetrated the worst atrocities in history. As H. Allen Orr, professor of biology at the University of Rochester, observed, the 20

Rwandan Genocide - a movement to atheism

The excellent Russell Blackford, over at The Hellfire Club, here at SIN, has recently linked a fascinating account of post-genocide analysis. This quote is representative of the article: "I renounced Christianity to become atheist when, after the Genocide, I learned about what happened to them," says Jacques Musoni,