WHY does God exist?

Posted on January 24, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Why does God exist? What is HIS cause?  A good question and worthy of an answer! On the surface, it seems to be the case that Christians are saying,

“The Big Bang can’t be true because nothing can be uncaused!

…Except God.”

But if the Big Bang HAD a cause, what caused the cause? And what caused that cause? You wind up in an infinite regress which is no better than an infinite past with no beginning, both of which leave you unable to account for existence at all! After all, if an infinite number of causes (or days) had to pass before today occurred, we would never have reached today because you cannot pass an infinite number of anything one at a time.

So how did we get here?

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Obviously not through an uncaused explosion. God must have done it! But where did God come from? Was he made by a bigger God?

And was the bigger God made by a bigger, bigger God?

And was the bigger bigger God made by a bigger bigger BIGGER GOD?

WHERE DOES IT END?!?

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Jumping the Philosophy Shark (or- Am I Dreaming?)

Posted on January 22, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

As I have conversations with various self identifying Atheists around the internet, I have managed to find more than one who, in some attempt to make me question what I think I know, assured me I could not prove that I was not dreaming RIGHT NOW.

“You can’t be CERTAIN that God exists! You can’t even be certain you’re awake and not dreaming right now!”

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This is one of those bite sized pieces of philosophy which is passed off as “deep” or “heavy,” but is in fact a sign that “something is wrong with people”. Continue reading →

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The Moral Argument in a Nutshell (And another reason to avoid Shia LaBeouf)

Posted on January 19, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

If God does not exist then there is no transcendent source for a universal moral law. There is time, space, matter, and energy, and blind, pitiless indifference. 

Think about a meteor smashing into the surface of the moon.

The moon is damaged. It cannot be repaired. The crater will remain forever. Is that evil? Nah. It’s just rocks hitting rocks.Image result for car crash

Consider a self driving car driving into another self driving car at at 80 miles per hour. They are smashed into tiny pieces. They cannot be repaired. They are gone forever. Is that evil? Nah, that’s just a machine colliding with another machine. Expensive, but not evil. Continue reading →

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Why Atheism and Parenting Conflict

Posted on January 17, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

As a parent you are responsible for the well being and happiness, health and welfare of your child. You have to feed and clothe them, teach them to be good people, and take them to school. These little lives, made in your image, depend on you to help them, hold them, shape them and mold them. 

Frankly, it’s a real drag and it cuts into the time you could spend chasing college girls or getting drunk. This is why our culture has started to move away from it all. No longer a Christian nation, we now have alternatives. Options! More choices than the Christian west used to offer to the average man or woman.Image result for bad parent Continue reading →

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Evolution, Antibiotics, and Mass Murder

Posted on January 15, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

What do we REALLY mean when we call an action “Mass Murder”? First of all, how many does it take to be MASS? Because, I don’t mean to be insensitive here, but does the slaughter of a few dozen people being run over by a truck driven by a Muslim REALLY count as MASS Murder? I mean, murder, certainly, but, MASS?

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Because when I think of MASS, I am thinking of weapons of mass destruction. Like NUKES. And those babies can kill more than a few dozen people at a crack. I just think we need to designate a standardized minimum casualties if we are going to call an event “MASS murder.” Continue reading →

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Bullet on Trial (Or, the “Justice” of Atheism)

Posted on January 12, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

William McGonagall was arrested for murdering Patrick Kavanagh on March 3, 2011. He shot Kavanagh in broad daylight, at a cafe` in Brooklyn when a fight erupted about the check, following a fight over reviews the men had received in the New York Times for their writing. Both of which were very bad. 

McGonagall is known as a staunch atheist, and it came to be that he stood trial before a judge who was also an atheist. On learning this, he devised what is now known as the McGonagall defense. Rumor has it that it was a bit of a surprise to his lawyer.

After the opening statement by the prosecution, McGonagall asked to approach the bench. “Your honor,” he said, “you and I are both men of science, not fettered by the constraints and definitions of religious tradition.”Image result for trial

The judge agreed. He had already allowed McGonagall to proceed without swearing to tell the truth with his hand on the Bible, but rather with his hand on his own heart.

“And as such it would be unjust to conduct this trial as though we were men of religion. It would be unjust and unwise for us to lay a foundation of Christian dogma to determine my fate, but rather we should lay a foundation of science and reason to proceed with this trial, should we not?”

The judge agreed. Continue reading →

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The Tokyo Delusion

Posted on January 10, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

You know what I am sick of? People trying to force me to believe that Tokyo is a real city.

To be clear, I’m not saying I believe Tokyo is NOT a real city. I’m just saying I don’t believe it is, and there are NO good arguments for its existence. I just see a lot of weak minded children who believe everything they see on TV arguing that I HAVE to believe what they believe because REASONS. But no GOOD reasons!

So I did a little research to shut up the Tokyo Believers out there. Image result for tokyo drift mater Continue reading →

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Modern Art Sucks Because Atheism is Stupid

Posted on January 8, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

When I was in college learning to be an Art Teacher, we were taught that one of the components of a good art unit, along with art history (Where did art come from?) and art production (How do you make it?), is the art aesthetic discussion (What makes it ART?). Image result for modern artSecularism had so numbed to the brains of all of my professors that when I asked them, “Well, how do you define art?” they said, “We can’t say, but that’s what the aesthetic discussion is for.”

And I said “I’m spending all of this money to become an art teacher and you guys can’t even tell me what art is?” They uncomfortably nodded yes. 

“So when people ask me ‘What do you teach?’ my answer is Well nobody really knows. REALLY?”

My professors didn’t know what to say. Apparently they never had a student who asked these questions before. Continue reading →

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Science is a Belief System

Posted on January 5, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Science is based on observation.

We see things happening again and again and eventually come to believe that they’ve always been that way and will always be that way. When we decide that a certain action or reaction happens consistently enough, we call it a LAW. The law of gravity, for instance, tells us that an object will fall to the earth if nothing interferes with it. In fact, the law tells us that it will ALWAYS happen, it always HAS happened, and we can even predict with accuracy how fast it will fall and for how long. 

We have some confidence riding on these Laws. If science were a casino, we’d be pushing all of our chips onto that square on the table labeled, “Laws of Physics.” The people watching may gasp, seeing us betting everything like that, even our very lives, but we’d just smile and say, “Let it ride.”Image result for casino

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Where an Atheist MUST put their Faith!

Posted on January 3, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

I had an atheist write in to tell me that “Atheism requires no faith and is not a worldview.” He argued that an atheist is a person who believes that the claim that there IS a God is “unsupported by good evidence.”

Now, I think I have clearly explained what the tenets of orthodox Atheism are in several videos and blog posts. Clearly it is a worldview. In fact, I call it a religion. But on a deeper level, this person was mistaken. Atheism DOES require faith.

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