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Tuesday, 05 May 2009

Monday, 04 May 2009

  • Strength In Numbers?

    In one of my previous posts I disproved the Christian god by proving that prayer has no power. In the Holy Bible it says that god will answer prayer. Therefore the Holy Bible is wrong and the Christian god does not exist. I may be the first person on xanga to prove that god doesn't exist but I won't claim that I am the first person ever to prove that god does not exist because I just borrowed research that others had done.

    I presented information about a study that scientifically proved conclusively that prayer has no power. I was accused of discounting the millions of Christians who claim their prayers have been answered. I believe emphasis was being placed on the millions part.

    Just because millions of people believe something does that make it true? Does the number of believers make a difference at all?

    I have many arguments against this. The most simple one is this:

    Millions of Muslims believe that Allah has answered their prayers. Millions of Jews believe god has answered their prayers. Millions of Christians believe god has answered their prayers.

    According to their own religious doctrine it is impossible that all three of these groups of people are having their prayers answered. Millions of people are members of all three of these religions but not all of them can be "right". So what makes any of them right?

    I'm going to shorten this and only present one more argument.

    If something is not real and we know without a doubt that it does not exist, getting a million people to believe in it won't magically make it real. If we get a million people to believe that unicorns are real that does not change the fact that they don't exist. They won't magically appear just because one million people believe in it.

    There are plenty of ideas that millions of people have believed in the past that are not true. For example there was a time when the most widely accepted idea about the shape of the earth was that it was flat. In fact the Holy Bible says the earth is flat. There was a time that it was widely accepted that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and planets revolved around the earth. We now know this to be false.

    When it comes to religious ideas there is no "strength in numbers".

Sunday, 03 May 2009

  • time to rejoice in my victory

    Now that I have proved your god does not exist I will celebrate by watching zany christians.





  • Proving God Does Not Exist

    If the god of the Christian bible were real we would expect to see his followers living long, prosperous lives while non-believers would be less favored and live less satisfying lives. This is simply not the case. There are many different religions followed by people on earth. There are also people who don't believe in any religion. There should be evidence that people who believe in Jesus are healed faster through prayer. There should be evidence that Christians are less likely to get cancer than those who don't believe in Jesus. There is not.

    The evidence shows that Christians get physical and mental illness, live in poverty, die in accidents, and experience the same problems that everyone else has. The largest study ever conducted on the power of prayer proved conclusively that heart transplant patients who were prayed for did not recover at a faster rate than those who were not prayed for. Those people who knew that others were praying for them did worse than those who were prayed for without their knowledge and those who were not prayed for. In the end the study proved that third party prayer had no affect on the recovery of the patients.

    This is the opposite of what would be expected if the Christian god were real. He is not real. Christians do not live more prosperous or happier lives than non-Christians. Christians do not respond to diseases better than non-Christians. Christians do not survive at a higher rate in natural disasters than non-Christians.

    Many Christians will continue to argue that they know their god is real and answers prayers because he has answered their prayers. This is because any time you pray and your desire becomes a reality, you believe god personally answered your prayer. When bad things happen you don't blame god though. When other prayers are not answered you believe that it was not god's will. Take a step back and look at what you are actually saying. It does not make sense at all. God sometimes answers your prayers but other times he does not simply because it is his will. Bad things still happen to you but it is not god who does those things. Cancer patients who pray to god still die but if one of them out of a thousand lives you will say that god was responsible and it is a miracle. Why does god only help some people and not others? 

Saturday, 25 April 2009

  • Proof God Doesn't Exist

    I don't spend a lot of time debating the existence of god. This is an endless debate which neither side can ever win. The most you can accomplish is to maybe present enough evidence to sway one more individual to your side. I was trying to think of something that could disprove the god of the bible once and for all. I could only think of one thing but if this one thing happened members of Judeo-Christian religions would either have to give it up or make a seriously large leap of faith (which is what they would probably do) in order to keep believing.

    The one thing that could disprove god once and for all is if we found other life in the universe. There is no passage in the bible that says god created any type of alien lifeforms. According to the good book, life on earth is a unique gift given to us by the lord.

    One major argument against atheism is that life had a designer and evolution doesn't make sense because it requires pure chance. If we found very primitive life that was still evolving and very much different than life on our own planet it would give more evidence to evolution and less evidence to a designer.

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  • I am an atheist and I have conclusively proven that the Christian god does not exist. I want to eradicate all religions from the earth starting with the Christian scum.