the ArmChair Thoughts

Micheal Jackson is dead. It’s worth a mention, maybe not as much as it’s getting (I hate that CNN spent all their time and resource "reporting" or well, it’s CNN what can I expect), consider the thousands dying everyday — Iran from political opression, Ethopia, starvation, or Sudan, homicide, etc. Well, that’s America, we prefer [...]

The question always is, can we be moral without religion? Quickly, many settle, “we need God to be moral”. So far we have learned (I assume you follow the series) that we cannot take the bible literally, no one would even want to live their lives the way the characters in the old testament did [...]

 "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." "Any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory." (Ockham’s Razor) – William Ockham   Let us assume I was born when my dad was [...]

Yesterday, Jesus was the topic of discuss and after reading the article you might start to wonder: “are you saying the religion in based on myths, make-beliefs and ‘paganism’?” Before I answer that, let go another step futher into another myth that has been engraved into every relgious following – faith, prayers, and devil and [...]

Continuing the series on God/Religion. For today, I will be discussing the person of Jesus and attempting to understand some of the myth that surround him. The character Jesus appeared throughout the new testament and even, some claim that his coming was prophesied long before his eventual birth (Prophet Isaiah): “For unto us a child [...]

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…" – Bible (2 Timothy 3:16, KJV) This is the second write I’m making for this post.  When I wrote the first and did the proof, it ‘magically’ disappeared — poor me, that must have [...]

Continuing in the spirit of yesterday’s post, here’s the other part it. Or maybe this should have been the first (composed this first), anyway it falls along, hope you enjoy this and more important, think through it.  In ‘truth’: Once was there a man, Omni-all, in a quest, here his act: Let there be light and [...]

This is inspired by the movie ‘Zeigest’ (which is a recommended must watch here), not sure who the source really is but I’ve added some of my own insights and structured it to make it poetic.  As I should note, this I will consider the poetic version of yesterday’s post. Some ideas in the poem, [...]

    My dad appeals that I shouldn’t let God deal with me and he seems convinced it will happen if I don’t obey Him and pay my tithe. That really gladdens me; the chances of God dealing with me is closer to never – Oh, not because God is merciful [or other mild qualities] but [...]

“Religion is the sigh of oppression.” -Karl Marx I have being asked oftentimes what my case is against religion or why I’m I bothered that some wouldn’t consider the central thesis around religion (God and its worship) a myth. Many would argue that afterall, religion gives many comfort and a sense of hope that helps [...]