More Atheism Vids On YouTube

I checked out NonStampCollector's channel yesterday and he had a video up by Theoretical BS titled: God's Checklist 2.0.

It's a good video and NonStampCollector has some good, funny videos up also. Check em out.

Jesus Is Way Late

I came across another article about Jesus' long overdue return. I added it to the bookmarks page also.

The title of the article is 2000 Years Late: The second coming of Jesus.

It's a little long, but worth the read.

New Layout

I have updated my layout, changed most of its colors and added a navbar. Instead of having the bookmarks taking up space in the sidebar, I made them their own page and put the link as a navbar button. I also did the same for the quotes page I made as you can see above.

I've also removed the subscribe table from the sidebar and put the feed links in the header.

Here's what my old layout looked like (click the smaller image for the full size one):

I like this layout better, so until I get tired of it this is the new look of my blog. :)

Bookmarks

Here are good articles I've come across.

Articles Dealing With The Bible, Christianity, And Religion

The Bible And Christianity - The Historical Origins

Old Testament Chronological and Historical Problems

What The Christian Fundamentalist Doesn't Want You To Know - A Brief Survey of Biblical Errancy

Bible Inconsistencies - Bible Contradictions?

The Pre-Christian Jewish Concept of the Messiah

The Resurrection: Discrepancies and Evaluation

Biblical Proof that Jesus is not Coming Again

2000 Years Late: The second coming of Jesus

Why I rejected fundamentalist Christianity?

Theories On The Origin Of Religion

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Articles Dealing With Atheism

An Introduction To Atheism

Common Arguments

Quotes

These are some of my favorite quotes about religion and atheism.

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry

"I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain." -- Gene Roddenberry

"A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!" -- Mark Twain

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand." -- Mark Twain

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination." -- Mark Twain

"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -- Stephen Roberts

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." -- Robert M. Pirsig

More quotes to be added later.

In the meantime, check out AtheistEmpire.com's quotes and PositiveAtheism.org's big list of quotes.

Happy 4th Of July

Have a good Independence Day everyone.

In the spirit of this holiday I changed the color of my links from blue to red to since I already had the blue and white on here. :)

I will keep the colors like this for awhile.

To all those who have made freedom for us Americans possible, and those currently fighting to keep us free, thank you.

Have a good 4th!

Atheism On YouTube

Here are some YouTube videos I've come across that I thought I would share.

Instead of embedding them in this post, I will just link to them.

The first two are humorous, the last two are serious.

Enjoy!

An Atheist Meets God (4:52 long)

The Reason For Everything And The Purpose Of Life - Bill Maher On Rick Warren (contains some vulgarity -- 9:07 long)

Militant Atheists (5:05 long)

End Times Bible Prophecies: Last Generation On Earth - The Atheist Experience #586 (7:20 long)

The Day After The Day Of Prayer

Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer.

You'd think with all the people praying for an end to the wars overseas, world peace and all that, things on this planet God supposedly loves so much would be vastly different today if he did indeed answer all those prayers. Yet things aren't changed. They are exactly as they were before the Day of Prayer.

I guess we should give God time to process all those prayers. Then again, many prayers in the Bible were answered immediately, so why should we not expect God to be prompt in his divine response now?

Imagine for a moment all the things people pray for. Shouldn't there be a lot of healed sick people by now? What about people of no religion and other religions being converted to Christianity after seeing the "truth" shown to them by God? There should be millions of new Christians today, but there isn't. There should be cures for current and future deadly diseases, but none exist. All the hungry people in the world should have an abundance of food, but do not. Flood waters should have subsided and wild fires should have been extinguished before they destroy more homes, but they continue. The global economic crisis should be fixed, but it hasn't been. And warring factions should have made peace, but they continue fighting.

Naturally believers will make up excuses why God didn't answer their prayers, but the fact that they even have to make excuses for what God didn't do says a lot. It's interesting that believers say that when a prayer is answered, that is God's will... but when it isn't answered, that is also God's will. It must be nice to have it both ways.

There's no need to make excuses why prayers aren't answered, it's just time to admit the obvious: there's no God listening.

Resurrection Discrepancies

I should've added this Resurrection Discrepancies link on my Easter Thoughts post, but I wasn't aware of it then. But I am now, so here it is.

There are other good articles on the Investigating Christianity site which you might want to check out when you the spirit moves you. Err, umm, I mean... when you come to the conclusion to do so based on sound reasoning and solid logic. :)

The Second Coming Isn't Coming

Many Christians believe that Jesus is going to return soon.

There have been countless predictions, by many people all throughout history, about when this event will occur. But all of them have one thing in common: they were all wrong. Of course that will not stop others from predicting it will happen sometime in the future, but those predictions are also unlikely to come true.

As for the reason why, I refer you to this article titled: Biblical Proof that Jesus is not Coming Again.

The only thing I would add to the linked article above are the following verses which also show that Jesus' return wasn't meant for any other time than his own. These are Jesus' own words to his disciples:

Matthew 16:28: Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Mark 9:1: And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.

Luke 9:27: But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

Here are some good articles dealing with the second coming issue:

Jesus' and Paul's predictions about the end of the world.

Second Coming on Wikipedia