http://www.atheistresistance.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:40:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is a response to the following video: Q: How can you prove to me that God doesn't exist?A: Don't need to. You're making the assertion that one exists; the burden of proof rests on you, or on the person that convinced you of your position. I am not convinced ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/23/replying-to-a-list-of-questions-to-atheists/ When I saw that McCain was running for the Republican Nomination in '07, I thought to myself, "Hey, this could make the election interesting; McCain is an entirely different sort of animal from the rest of his party."  I thought, "If he shows signs of returning to actual fiscal conservatism, ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/22/mccain-not-mccain-of-08/ How I mourn: If I liked, even loved the person, I'm glad that I was able to be a part of the life of a wonderful person, and to be enriched by that person's existence. If I didn't like the person, I'm generally glad to see the back of them. That's it, really. http://www.atheistresistance.org/21/mourning/ Addressing theists. The accusation comes to light often enough that Atheists are immoral - even less moral than other religions that aren't yours - because they don't have a divinely inspired - or even a fixed - moral code.  In order to refute this, without actually defining the content of my ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/18/morality-2/ As I'd mentioned before, I see the term 'Respect my beliefs' as equivalent to 'Follow my beliefs'.  This doesn't mean I go around blaspheming at a religious person for the hell of it - I'm more inclined to respect someone's feelings in this case. However, I do take some offense at ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/17/respect-my-beliefs/ Title lifted from MC Hawking When doing my debatey thing, I often come across the "Something can't come from nothing" argument against Big Bang theory.  Here's a few reasons it's illogical: Big Bang describes the events that occurred immediately after universal formation: planck, Unified fields, inflation, electroweak, quark, hadron, lepton, photon, and ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/16/big-bizang/ The below extension of a comment is my reaction to this video: Mohammed Brand Condoms Fundie Muslims demand respect for their religion - in itself a hypocrisy.  Muslims, like any other religion, are obligated to disrespect the religions of others.  'Respect my religion' means 'follow my religion'. That is, to a follower of ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/15/respect/ Hey, this happened on my birthday (Jul 14), so I decided to post a comment on it. I realize that given VFX's history with comment censorship, it'll never see the light of day on his page, but I thought, hey, why not post the comment on my blog? You're finally ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/14/venomfangx-leaving-youtube/ All the cool kids are doing it... Please rate fairly and discuss on YouTube (not here). http://www.atheistresistance.org/13/my-first-video/ Today, I address only theists. I will not be attacking religion, nor shall I be harping on the fallacies of theism in general. No, today, I will be be philosophizing in an attempt to understand the need to believe. In order to do this, I'm going to make an attempt to ... http://www.atheistresistance.org/12/reasons-to-believe/