Freedom of – and from – Religion

I continue to find inspiration in the form of Citizen Tom’s website. One of his more recent posts discussed freedom from religion, though to understand Tom’s post, we must first delve into a post by one Constitutional Insurgent. Where I quote Constitutional Insurgent, I’ll be using blue text, and where I quote Tom, I’ll use […]

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Rhetoric and Radicalism

Recently, over in the comments of a post of Citizen Tom’s, Silence of Mind stoked the fires of confrontation. Quite why he said what he said, given that his words are patently untrue (and I believe he knows them to be untrue) is beyond me. For a supposedly devout, ‘true’ Christian… Well, let’s just say […]

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Defiance and Logic (a Response to Citizen Tom)

Tom and I have briefly crossed paths before. Following a discussion over at SoM’s site, I wrote a post based upon that discussion. I recently dissected another of SoM’s rants, and shared those thoughts with Tom. In response, Tom has written a new post, and that is the post I take a look at here. […]

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Empirical Evidence, P2

No sooner had I responded to David Thiessen’s little jab, he replied. Read here if you want, but suffice to say, it is more of the same. It is dishonest. It is distorting the points I make – and as ever, David is too lazy and disrespectful to use my name (it’s a three-letter word […]

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Understanding what Empirical Means

David Thiessen has fired a shot at a recent post of mine (even though it didn’t involve him, what a shock). His post waffles about objective evidence, and then spins off into the topic of morality, which I didn’t even bring up in my most recent riposte with Silence of Mind. He’s picked a bad […]

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Why Silence is Golden

Another day, another epic and misleading rant from Silence of Mind. This time, he fired shots at the Spartan Atheist, and a post that brilliantly satirised the belief systems of fundamentalists. As ever, I feel the need to preface this, with the point that I do not know where I stand on God, Gods, and […]

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‘What’s in a Name?’

It would seem that David is continuing to spin fanciful, misleading yarns, and all of this stems from getting involved in a conversation that had nothing to do with him. He appears upset and annoyed by the direction of all this, yet if he had left me alone, I would not have any reason to […]

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Religion, History, Violence, and Hitler

Allow me to preface this post with the warning that this topic is a sensitive one. The depictions of violence are quite graphic, and quite brutal. Discussions of this nature can easily become heated, for we are talking about cherished beliefs and ideals. We are talking about historical figures of much notoriety. Some background. This […]

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Lies on top of Lies

It seems that Silence of Mind is rattled. After he waded into the comments of this post by Bruce Gerencser, he was always on a hiding to nothing, and so it proved. In his righteous fury, he has repeated debunked arguments about atheists being murders, ignored the violence of Christian history, and overlooked the volumes […]

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Silence and Theology

It was almost inevitable that David Thiessen and Silence of Mind would cross paths. They are fundamentalist peas in a pod, cut from the same extremist cloth, and they have already bonded over my apparent ‘evil’ nature. They have also continued to be disingenuous. SoM in particular has been forthright in his deceit. The following […]

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