Category: Applied Blasphemy


Jesus Was No Man of Peace: The Bible Says He Was a Violent Coward
 Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
 Gregory Paul

The popular image of Jesus as a man of peace is not supported even by the Bible. Nontheists should stop paying it lip service.

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Without a Prayer of a Chance
 Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
 Stephanie Savage

I don’t credit God for my extraordinary recovery from illness, but I won’t begrudge my friends the satisfaction they got from praying for me.

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Please Stop Praying for Me
 Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
 Eric Wojciechowski

I won’t be a jerk and tell you your prayers for me are in vain. But I will ask you to give to a scientific charity instead.

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The Contingency of Belief: Present Beliefs Stem from Past Happenstance
 Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
 Robert J. Muscat

Believers today ready to defend, preach, proselytize, or even kill and die for their faith are likely dedicating their lives to ideas they hold by accident.

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