religion

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” Epicurus This work by JMcFarland is licensed under a Creative...

(part one in the series was posted on my hubpages account under JMcFarland. They don't want to publish this one, since it mentions the word "rape" so I thought I'd cross-post it here. As always, comments welcome) Continuing on in the series, if there is one thing that can generally be classified ...

I was driving home from work today and noticed something hilarious. I was sitting at a red-light next to a pickup truck. The driver was a big, tall, hairy man. He was listening to "jesus take the wheel" There was a cross on his windshield, and the bumper sticker on the back of his car…

Someone I ended up friends with on Facebook somehow (and I have no idea how) posted a status requesting anyone who believed in magic or considered themselves a Wiccan etc to remove themselves. She then went on to post Bible verses about how witches should be killed. My response: Wow... Who did Je...

Let me tell you a story. Our country (the United States of America) celebrates Abraham Lincoln as the "great emancipator" who spearheaded abolishing slavery, etc. What if Abraham Lincoln had stood up there, and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and said "okay, this is how we're going to fre...

It still disturbs and astounds me how small-minded, ignorant, afraid and intollerant some people are when it comes to their own beliefs. I was mistaken to think that more people in the world were like me - that if they are misinformed or have some wrong information about something that they'd wan...

In the story of Abraham and Isaac in the old testament: Assume there is a god, who communicates with you clearly, and assume that he has given you this command. What is your moral DUTY to this being? Did Abraham pass or fail God's test? He failed. The ONLY moral answer in the story of…

There are studies and polls out today that indicate that there are more people who believe that the Bible is infallible, and yet more people actually haven't read the book at all. I understand where you're trying to come from about Leviticus, you're talking about people who are reading INTERPRETA...

You know, in a brief "debate" i had with another diarist on my last entry, one of the first questions i asked was "do you care whether or not what you believe is true?" Her answer was "of course" which, i feel was untrue - deliberately or not. If you believe, as she did, that…