People who follow Todd Bently are complete jackasses and deserve to have every penny they own taken from them by this fucking lunatic. First of all, his name is TODD!!! On top of that, he's Canadian! (At least he sounds like he's Canadian, which is just as bad.) Shouldn't that be enough? But no, you need more to keep you away?

The best line from this video: "People that need people raised from the dead are now tuning in to the meeting." It's like he's talking about people who need their drains unclogged. Who in hell wouldn't like to have someone raised from the dead?



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I hear this one quite frequently. Somehow or other the conversation gets round to the fact that I'm an atheist, i.e. I lack a belief in the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. After catching his jaw before it can hit the ground, my interlocutor asks how I could not believe in God. I reply that I know of no evidence to justify a belief in his existence. Their response: "But isn't it obvious that there's a God? Just look around!" Or something like that.

To those of you who think it's obvious, I say this: What seems obvious to us is often wrong. Our senses and intuition can only take us so far in our quest for truth. In fact, they frequently lead us away from truth.

For example: It seems intuitively true to us that the Earth is a plane, flat as a pancake. It took scientific inquiry to demonstrate that the Earth is closer to spherical in shape. It seems obvious to us that the Sun circles the earth, rather then the other way around. It took science to show us the truth.

Check out Richard Dawkins on this below:



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Atheists are often asked this question. Believers in God and Christianity and the Bible and Heaven and Hell worry about my soul and wonder why I don't. It's inconceivable to them that I lose not a minute's sleep over my eternal destiny. To them I say...

1. How much do you worry about the possibility that you are wrong and the Muslims are right? And if you're not a Seventh Day Adventist and worship your God on the "wrong" day of the week, how much do you worry about the possibility that you are wrong and they are right? What about Jehovah's Witnesses? What about a million other religions that hold beliefs that are in conflict with yours?

2. If you really believe the Bible then you should worry that you don't believe it enough and that you'll end up in Hell in spite of your belief. According to your own Bible, Jesus said that the way is narrow that leads to salvation, and further, that many who called him "Lord" in life and did miracles in his name would discover too late that he "never knew" them.

So, no, I don't worry about being wrong, and in all likelihood neither do you.

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Have you heard this before? This is the advice often given to Christians who are seeing, perhaps for the first time, widening cracks appearing in the seemingly solid foundation of their faith. It's a neat little admonition that underlies the defensive mechanism inherent in all faiths.

In which other area of life would it be considered prudent to ignore evidence and cling to what the evidence disproves? Of course people do this all the time, but is it ever a good way to navigate life?

I would rather see clearly, even if the view is painful or uncomfortable.

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