This is a proposal to add a third legislative body to the federal government of the United States of America. Original House of Representatives The original house of representatives had one representative for every 33,000 people in the U.S. It roughly maintained that ratio until 1911 when it was decided to free the size of […]
Author: Paul
Heaven Sounds Like Hell
There are a lot of descriptions of hell. Fire and brimstone, never-ending agony, for all eternity. Sounds like something to avoid if at all possible. But what is heaven? Every day is wonderful? What is a day? What is wonderful? I can’t think of anything that is remotely attractive about heaven as soon as you […]
Atheist Atrocities Fallacy
A tactic often used to discredit a person or a group is to try to associate that group with someone or some activity that is universally reviled. Comparing someone to Hitler is probably the most common attempt at this. This is so common it has a name “Godwin’s Law”. This law says that if a […]
Atheist Jokes
1.George Carlin – When it comes to bullshit, big time, major league, bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there is an invisible man […]
Before “You Got Mail”
I have a fuzzy memory of the first time I sent an e-mail. It was March of 1977. I was working on my second B.A., this time in Computer Science because my first bachelor’s degree in Psychology was like a firecracker that goes “pffft” instead of the bigger bang I was hoping for. I think […]
Atheist Songs
Contra Steve Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogta8alHiU there are songs for the atheist. Not many. You have to come up with a dozen contemporary songs to equal Mozart’s Requiem and that’s just based on time. But some atheist songs do exist. In March of 2019 I did this search “Music for atheists humanists” in YouTube and got one […]
Closed-Minded?
Sometimes a god believer will say something like “you are just too closed-minded”. And maybe that’s true. I have been an atheist for 50 years and I can’t even imagine being tempted to believe in a god. Ricky Gervais says he wishes there was a god. I don’t. The world and everything I see would […]
Easter vs. Christmas
In an issue of Time magazine, pastor Rick Warren from the Saddleback church was asked which of the two major Christian holidays is more important: Christmas or Easter. The pastor did not take the bait and said both were necessary and equal. This gives a good place to compare atheism and theism, at least for […]
Quote from Hitchens
“Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody … had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge … Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the […]
Pascal’s Wager
Blaise Pascal considered the question of belief. “Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” I have […]