| Name: | Richard R. Smuin |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | lifsgr88@msn.com |
| Comments: | I believe the last count of
Christian Churches in the world is around 37,000. They all teach from the
Bible and all teach different doctrine. Some teach baptism by immersion,
some by sprinkling and some don't baptize at all. And they all condemn each
other for their belief on baptism. They, for the most part bash each other
and try to dismantle any church who does not agree with their own very, very
perverted and bad interpretation of the Bible. The Bible has been changed
over the centuries by corrupt Catholic monks as they copied the manuscripts.
Look at the TV Evangelists today. Benny Hinn, Jimmy Swaggart and others.
They make me sick. They are not only charlatans but great comics also. The Bible is the most misused and misunderstood book ever written. It has been used to justify all manner of impropriety, wickedness, and falsehood. Every spiritual fraud ever perpetrated in the history of Judaism or Christianity has claimed support from the Bible. On the authority of the Bible the Jews crucified Christ, stoned Stephen, and imprisoned and beat the Apostles. With the Bible as justification Paul persecuted Christians "unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. After the death of the Apostles the Bible was taught by the authority of the whip and the sword. To the Reformers it became the source of priesthood authority and the final will and testament of their mute God. July 5, 2003 19:23:50 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Billy Dean |
| Homepage: | http://www.qwertyarrow.com/ |
| E-Mail: | billy61@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Joined the ring a few weeks ago,
and thought I'd visit the other sites as time allows yto say hello and
browse around. Like you, I am a fan of science fiction, Star Trek and
astronomy. I also enjoy the Eastern "wisdom" if not the violence of KFTLC.
And, like you, I went in the front door of religion and out the back. Just
can't believe that without a god, you can't be good. I'm still open to all
sorts of stuff, (except Christian theology and a few other ideas and
practices that seem pretty much full of horse pucky to me). But I am willing
to run it all through the filter of reason and experience. Life, for me, is
more like a journey of questions and associated "operational attitudes than
rigid answers. I just don't see any place in the universe where I can stand
and judge everything else in any absolute way. Thanks for the visit. You've
got an interesting web site. You'll find some of my explorations at my web
site... July 5, 2003 00:53:02 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Susan |
| Homepage: | http://www.geocities.com/susan_bishonen |
| E-Mail: | gekkou_no_kagami@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Wooow!! Hooray!! I really love
your site! You did a very good, comprehensive job on your site! You were
able to explain exactly how I felt as an Atheist that I didn't know how to
explain for myself. I don't know if you've considered this, but I've always
thought that if God was an Almighty One, and had infinite power, why does
Satan and Hell exist? Couldn't God have the power to "smote" them if he were
so strong? But of course, he's got to leave them there for people he doesn't
like, eh? ^_^ Thanks again for such a GREAT site!! June 26, 2003 5:27:58 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | gilbert |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | power.falcon@wanadoo.fr |
| Comments: | Your site is very interesting
and 100% agree with your analyze. There is also a very interesting French
book who explain that religious belief is a consequence of how our brain
works. this (and every day church brain washing) explain that in our relative advance scientific society, two thousand years old belief still survive ! I m not surprise that Christian believer even reject solid scientific arguments. Very illogical! would say mister Spock from Star Trek series !! Only a few people are able to renonciate to their belief after a logical analyze of facts and arguments. Too beautiful and idyllic to be true, Christianity became suspect for a lot of people. Keep that way, smart thinking help find the truth. (sorry for my bad english i m french). June 16, 2003 13:54:48 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Mikekk67 |
| Homepage: | http://www.geocities.com/mikekk67/ATHEISTS.html |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | Really cool site! It's nice to
have someone who was a Christian disprove all that because as you said,
probably over 80 or so percent of Christians don't read the whole Bible so
why would any reasonable Atheist want to waste their time in doing so? I
wouldn't read that book and I'm glad that you were able to pull out all
those quotes. Don't pay attention to the stupid replies by the angry
Christians. Why is it that they always are the ones leaving the snotty
replies like "have a good life" or "God loves you?" Tsk. Tsk. The truth will
set them free, keep up the good work. June 8, 2003 13:08:54 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Malefactor Bingebot |
| Homepage: | http://dont have one |
| E-Mail: | dont have one |
| Comments: | Interesting about the 10
commandments, I didn't know that. I think some of your arguments are weak
but others are pretty good. If Jesus did turn the water into wine, then that
qualifies as a miracle, healing the blind back in the day qualifies as a
miracle. Even though babies are born everyday, hell, I think that's still a bloody miracle. Think about it. I bang my ol lady's monkey and blow my skanky wad in there and hell, nine months later, a person comes tearing outta that hole screaming all to be damned and covered in toe-cheese. "hey, anyone bring some crackers to dip in that shit?" But seriously, I think Zecharia Sitchen's "Earth Chronicles" would help resolve the issue of creation and science, because the dirty 'truth' is: drumroll please........... They are both true - but you have to combine them to make it to make sense. Think: you say we share the same ancestors as primates.,,, ewwww, weeell, you're kinda right - see - we share some combination of their DNA with the DNA of our gods. We were bread to be workers. Smart enough to take orders and entertain our gods, but dumb enough not to demand adequate compensation. They fucked us with a short ass life span and left behind some instructions that also got fucked up. BOOM! Religion is born. Don't make the arrogant mistake of thinking that evolution of life forms began with us and our planet - we're millions and millions if not billions of years behind in the game - we jumped on in mid stream but only because 'they' came down to earth and set up a big ass lab experiment and made us. Think: we share a lot of the same behaviors of primates as well as DNA and ancestors. we are 1)territorial 2)extremely violent 3) hate others not of our 'kind' (this is natural and impossible to overcome) 4) become incensed when eye-contact is made with the same gender. 'They' knew we would be a problem so they left us instructions to show us how to 'get along' and stay healthy. Our gods are aliens my friends, they were here before us and they left us behind because to them we're trash and prattle. I hope I will see them one day, our imperfect gods. I hope they care about us. I want to go to my true home with them. I hope they love us. June 6, 2003 22:10:39 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Chase |
| Homepage: | http://n/a |
| E-Mail: | jayd@shadowspell.com |
| Comments: | Seems to me if you're really
going to take a scientific approach to 'debunking', that you would to that
with all 'religion' not just sling mud at Christians. You come off as just
another 'dime-a-dozen' angry hate-monger. Do have a good life. June 6, 2003 21:18:34 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Grateful Ed |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | Nice site, keep up the good
work.. June 5, 2003 14:23:29 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Jesse |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | jtbates@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | I enjoyed reading your sight! I
really feel most people are just to damn afraid not to believe, or to
ignorant and gullible. I was raised a Southern Baptist and as I went through
life [I am 48 yrs. old] I realized that the stories in the Bible were just
that-- stories. People need to study up on how religions came about in the
world long before the Bible was written and I think they would see that god
is as man made as autos. It is so ingrained in our society that I don't
think it will ever go away. There's this girl I used to go to school with
that had a brain tumor, the doctors were able to operate and get most of it
and she is fine so far, but she swore that god was watching over her and
that's why she made it through surgery, I told her that if a god was
watching over her she wouldn't have to had the operation in the first
place!! I don't think she liked that but she could have given science and
the doctors credit instead of some myth. I really hate the way they take
children and fill their heads with this bunk, to me they are taking this
child's mind and not allowing him or her to think on their own, after all
religion is learned, we are all born atheists and would stay that way if
theists would just leave us alone and keep their ridiculous myths to
themselves. Keep up the good work! June 2, 2003 3:29:48 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | John |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | johnhurle@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | It sounds as though most of your
grievances are against Christians rather than God. I don't think you should
really judge a Deity by his followers. Christians make mistakes and screw up
just like everyone else. May 26, 2003 10:51:23 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Ken |
| Homepage: | http://knowledge.2itb.com/index.html |
| E-Mail: | happy@rionet.cc |
| Comments: | I too was raised a Baptist and
was always amazed by the contradictions I saw. We need more people offering
bulls**t repellent, meaning common sense, so keep up the good work. May 25, 2003 10:49:13 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Nicole |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | thatnicolegirl04@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I have to say, I have made a
journey much like your own in a shorter period of time (I'm only 17). I am a
Cradle-Catholic, brought up by two very over-zealous, "yay Jesus" parents. I
was very much into the Catholic Religion until my priest fired our youth
minister and dismissed 16 volunteers for questioning sexual acts between he
and our adult male organist. I started to question and realized that
everything I believed in, I believed because I was told to. When I started
to vocalize my questions, I was rebuked, and told that education is not the
answer, ignorance, aka blind faith is. The largest factor driving me from
the Christian church, is the hypocrisy of the Christians themselves. Anyone
wanting to spread the "Love of Jesus" should learn that calling someone a
bastard isn't the correct way to spread love. My major fault in
Judeo-Christian religion is that it promotes ignorance. My Father actually
told me, "I've never met anyone too dumb to love Jesus, but I have met
people too smart." Doesn't that say something in itself? May 19, 2003 17:20:10 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Mark |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | Brilliant site!!!! you certainly
know your stuff and i have learnt a lot from you!!! Would recommend you
watching the film DOGMA, as it seems to be driving at the same things you
are. God or not, religion is for the most part, harmful to man. You have
spoken to me in my own language, a language of love and of hate, Fear and
also Hope. Your site serves you well.
May 15, 2003 21:47:55 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | bob |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | I think that your site is very
poorly set up have studied the bible and know how to interpret the bible
though you have brought up very many controversies about the catholic
religion which I have to say are true ve them ation and maybe gifor the most
part. I think that the new testament which is the only book of the bible
actually written by Christians is so unclear because monks copied the bible
over and over for thousands of years. It is sort of like the game telephone
were u start with a phrase and end the game with something totally
different, well that is what some think happened to the bible. so next time
u decide to go on a rampage and insult a religion find the basics even
though the details are nice to know. also the bible was written down over
all those years in all capital letters with no spaces which may also make it
hard to interpret so maybe u will take all that into consideration and be
amazed at the fact that over thousands of years we still have a bible that
can still reflect the love that go shares with everyone. May 2, 2003 20:47:03 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | mark |
| Homepage: | http://jeeze1999.00sf.com/ |
| E-Mail: | gfxfgs@lycos.com |
| Comments: | Spirits are speaking in my
dreams and other ways. I wrote it down. Please see http://jeeze1999.00sf.com/ Was visited by a holy spirit. Do you think computers are an interactive link between the biospheres? April 24, 2003 18:44:32 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Jenni Foreman |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | ambitious_dancer@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I think u are an ass, and just
because u can't feel loved, u try to make others feel that way too. U are
the types of people, we as Christian believers need to pray for. I will pray each day for you to learn to grow up. may Gods love be there for you u bastard April 18, 2003 20:54:24 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Jessica |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | Very interesting site, will be
back. Thanks. :) April 18, 2003 4:07:32 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Sam |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | Hi ya Derrick. I've read your
site pretty thoroughly. I hope u don't just dismiss this comment. U
shouldn't really question some of the stuff god does. He didn't make any
brain capable of knowing the reason behind the weird stuff he does.
Otherwise you might aswell be a god yourself. Not believing in him and
questioning him shows how little faith and weak some people are. Religion is
messed up, but god isn't. I'm not religious at all by the way. But I'm
pretty sure he exists. His lack of proof of existence is so obviously a test
to c how strong people actually believe in him/or not. April 17, 2003 12:51:27 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | kely |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | naudstrom@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi, I loved this site. You know,
I have really been strugglin over this whole god debate. It's very
depressing when you come to the conclusion that you don't believe in
something some guys in the middle east came up with a few thousand years ago
and nearly everyone in your home town is walking around with these
glistening crosses around their necks. It makes me feel very isolated and
scared for the future with such fundamentalism arising on all sides -
especially here in America. So I just wanted to say, thanks for your
easy-to-read site, and for your conversion to the non-believers, and for
providing a space wherein we can meet and see that others don't believe in
Jesus, that we're not alone, that there are more out there, and that they
are growing. Best wishes, kely PS - How come the Bible never mentions
Dinosaurs?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 22, 2003 14:27:05 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Terence Loftus |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | furstbismarck@tellurian.net |
| Comments: | I only have one slight issue
with your site. If a person thinks that identifying themselves as an
agnostic will be more acceptable to the public at large, think again! I
recently was involved in an on line debate about this subject & saying I was
agnostic didn't make me or my arguments any more acceptable to the theists.
Thanks for a great site. Terry March 2, 2003 02:33:11 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Africa Dejeesus |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | This is a really cool website,
exploring many points against Theism. Two thumbs up! Febuary 27, 2003 00:47:17 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Jim Minnix |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | jkminnix@msn.com |
| Comments: | Can't remember the author, but
someone a lot smarter than I once said, "The only thing I know for certain
is that I know nothing; AND I'M NOT EVER SURE ABOUT THAT" ! GROK ON BRO'!
Febuary 20, 2003 20:46:58 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | H. Jones |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | hjj@sfglaw.com |
| Comments: | As a PK (preacher's kid), I
ALWAYS had a problem with the "Land of Gnod". Being inquisitive, I would ask
my father, deacons and other "men of God" and always got idiotic responses
(mostly doing with "just have faith" crap). I also agree with you about
Christian people being hypocrites. I watch these Christians cuss, fornicate,
gossip, smoke marijuana and cigarettes, drink copious amounts of alcohol,
etc., etc. These are the same people who constantly tell me that "I need
Jesus in my life," and "You need to go to church young man". Oh well, I am a
happy heathen. It is also humorous when a non-believer is more knowledgeable
about the Bible than the "true believers". I also like the Jerry Falwell
types saying that the Koran is a book full of evil and atrocities; obviously
Jerry has skipped over the Old Testament. January 24, 2003 03:04:31 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | lisa |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | lfwelch@sydcom.net |
| Comments: | I have been reading your entire
site and it really feels so good to know I am not alone .. its been my
belief that man created god not god created man for a very long time. Your
humor is just wonderful. I also like that you point out how blood thirsty
the god of the bible can be .. which is something else I believe ..that more
evil has been done in the name of some GOD then for any other reason. December 31, 2002 00:21:35 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Max Stout |
| Homepage: | http://www.geocities.com/maxvstout1956/index.html |
| E-Mail: | max-stout@excite.com |
| Comments: | would love to submit my story
but it is several pages long. It can be found on my website. on the link MY
STORY http://www.geocities.com/maxvstout1956/index.html December 12, 2002 07:49:32 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Anitra Freeman |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | netmama@anitraweb.org |
| Comments: | Hello from the new ring manager
of "Leaving Born-Again Fundamentalist Christianity." You have a good
resource here -- I'm glad you're part of the ring. My grandmother was a
member of a Bible sect so dogmatic that they considered Jehovah's Witnesses
to be back-sliding apostates. My mother was a mystic. My father was an
atheist humanist. I have had great fun all my life in working out my own
beliefs from those strong influences. I'm happy with what I have now, but I
think that fundamentalists, mystics, and atheists all disown me. :-) My main
concern is that human beings make up their own minds instead of buying one
off the rack, and I think you set a good example. Write On! Anitra December 8, 2002 11:18:14 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Paul Jacobsen |
| Homepage: | http://www.caseagainstfaith.com |
| E-Mail: | |
| Comments: | I've just been reading the
articles on your site. I run a skeptical site myself,
www.caseagainstfaith.com. Check it out if you like. By the way, Dr. Hugh
Ross has an interesting way to read Genesis. (Not that I believe it...) But
his theory is that God created all of the universe on the first day, and
that the sun and stars merely became visible to the Earth's surface on day
4. I know it seems like a stretch, but he mixes in all kinds of references
to the original language to show how (supposedly) the translations we read
don't convey the correct meaning. I know its a stretch. An attempt to fit
the obvious facts to the Bible that is believed to have to be right. But at
least it is interesting. November 17, 2002 03:05:48 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Sam Owens |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | sam_philos@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | For the first six years of my
life, my parents were together. Notice I didn't say happy, as I think that
also relates to why I believed in it. Life was pretty good until they
separated, divorced, and went their separate ways. My father was a liberal
Christian by that point, and my mother was a fundamentalist- considering my
luck, imagine which person I got to live with? Don't get me wrong, I loved
my mother (still do), but I don't think it was healthy to live in that kind
of mentality. I was very certain of my beliefs, even experienced a kind of
"religious experience" (hypnosis) for a while, but it never worked out. I
tried harder and harder to please god, and always feeling like I was dirt.
Circular guilt, that seems to be common in that religion. Heaven was
non-existent for me, and hell seemed very likely. To feel better, I went
door to door trying to spread the "good news". Nothing worked, and I felt
worse and worse. November 8, 2002 00:51:06 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | J'iya |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | jalez@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am commenting on the section
that you call "Other arguments". Although I will agree with you that most of
the subjects you covered are a skeptics paradise, there is one that I feel
needs to be covered. The section on psychics and astrology. I am not by any
chance a firm believer in psychics, although I have witnessed things that
defy normal explanation (at least to myself anyway). There have been
documented cases of twins not raised together for the majority of their
lives, reuniting after years, who share a parallel existence. such as naming
their children the same names, driving the same make, model and, color
automobile, having husbands or wives with the same names, or whose spouses
look remarkably alike, etc. I personally am a niece to twin aunts, and they
have for the latter part of their lives lived in different states and at
times different countries ( one is a military wife). Yet there are uncanny
goings-ons between the two. October 16, 2002 05:40:37 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Ron Toon |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | ron_toon@fuse.net |
| Comments: | Like your page. Looks like a lot
of work for a one-man effort. When I have more time, I'll be back. Thanks
for bringing some truth to the world. I do the same in another venue. Ron
October 16, 2002 04:50:08 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Mike S. |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | jesuscanbiteme@aol.com |
| Comments: | With regards to your "Other
Skepticisms", you should also consider another fact about UFOs and other
intelligent life forms. I, like you, accept a possibility of us not being
the only (intelligent) life in this galaxy or others. But I bring this
point: Given the time scale of the universe(s), it is possible that
intelligent life, or unintelligent life, has already existed and gone
extinct. Mankind's existence is only measurable in the 1000s of years at
this point. Life on other planets could have come in and out of existence
numerous times in the billions of years science knows to have already
passed. How long are humans expected to survive on this planet? Another
point, regarding alien contact is this: If by chance another intelligent
life form exists at THE SAME TIME as humanity, their discovery of people is
quite improbable. In a 3-D existence, there are INFINITE directions to look
and explore and infinite directions to look and find nothing at all. Finding
alien life, or it finding us, gives new meaning to finding the needle in the
haystack. An infinite haystack does not easily reveal it's needle. Thanks
for letting me share, and consider adding these points to your other
skepticisms. October 12, 2002 06:25:11 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Harry van Schalkwijk |
| Homepage: | |
| E-Mail: | hvschalk@hetnet.nl |
| Comments: | I Like your site ! October 11, 2002 18:29:58 (GMT Time |
