William Edelen November 30, 2003 Behind every gun in the mideast bloodbath is a religious scripture. Jew and Muslims are slaughtering each other over religion. They are butchering each other over their claim that this is "sacred" ground for their religious tradition. Both are claiming that "God" gave it to them. It is religion that feeds and fuels the violence and the slaughtering of other human beings, and all being done in "Gods" name. If I hear one more empty airhead use the stupid cliche that "without religion there would be no morality", I think I'll throw up. The fact is this: religion is the direct cause of immorality and amorality. Without religion this earth would be a far, far more peaceful place with far more harmony between cultures and people. Every war going on today on this earth has religion as the fuel keeping it alive. Protestants and Catholics are slaughtering each other in Ireland. The Catholic Croats and Ort...

My story is rather unusual. I have never been a Christian, but I feel moved to write by an intense relationship I have with a young man who is a Christian. The year and a half I was in love with him, I experienced great pain as I tried to reconcile his beliefs with my own agnosticism. I was raised in a secular home by a scientist father and an agnostic mother. My background is Indian, so there was a dusting of Hindu religious culture in my life as I grew up, but since Eastern religion is not doctrinal than the monotheistic religions, I grew up respecting my own intelligence and intuition far more than any doctrine. When I arrived at college I was comfortably agnostic, scientifically minded, materialist, rationalist…completely bemused and puzzled by religion. Two things happened. In my junior year I began to room with three women who happened to be Protestant Christians. One was a no-holds-barred, passionate, untiring evangelizer whom I often suspected of not being in her right ...

ON MAN'S FREEWILL 1.) God has an unchangeable plan for everything past, present & future. 2.) Everything that occurs past, present and future will be part of God's unchanging plan. 3.) Thoughts and actions occur and are part of God's unchanging plan. 4.) Thoughts and actions cannot be anything other than what God has planned. 5.) Free-will doesn't exist. FREEWILL ARGUMENT FOR THE NONEXISTENCE OF GOD 1.) The Christian God is a personal being and is omniscient. 2.) Personal beings have free will.(according to most Christians) 3.) To have freewill, a personal being must be able to make a choice. 4.) A being who knows everything can have no "state of uncertainty". It knows its choices in advance. 5.) God has no potential to avoid its choices, and therefore has no free will. 6.) Since a being that lacks free will is not a personal being, a personal being who knows everything cannot exist. 7.) Therefore, the Christian God does not exist. - ...