Are You There God?

Ingersoll- If Christ rose from the dead?

"If Christ rose from the dead, why did he not appear to is enemies? Why did he not call on Caiaphas, the high priest? Why did he not make another triumphant entry into Jerusalem?" -Robert Ingersoll

A Proud Easter Tradition

Nietzsche- In Christianity

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't Reason! Just Obey!

"Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirt. Satan will attempt to fill your child with worry, reasoning, fear, depression, and discouraging negative thoughts. Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense- if it is not logical- we may be tempted to disregard it.  What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense. Don't reason! Just Obey." -Joyce Meyer

So, if I understand her reasoning... am I supposed to follow her advice? Can you use reasoning to advocate against reasoning?

We Should Have A Conversation.

"All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty- and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally." -Same Harris

Programming You Received As A Child

"You're not responsible for the programming you received as a child. However, now as an adult, you're 100% responsible for fixing it."