How To Remain Christian - Or Can You?

Atheists Have No Idea If God Really Exists

No atheist can assert that God doesn't exist.

But anyone with a high school diploma can see by actually studying the bible and its history, it was man-made.

Don't you find it odd how many human emotions God has in the old and new testament? 
-God drowned pregnant women and little babies because they had anger in their hearts so god got angry.

And more unexplainable stories from the perfect word of god:

• "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." - Psalm 137:9
• Female bears coming out of the woods to maul young boys because they made fun of a bald man? - 2 Kings 2:24
• Did Judas die in a field on hung from a tree? - Matthew 27:5 or Acts 1:18
• Lot was so drunk he slept with BOTH daughters on the same night and impregnated them. Have you ever been so drunk you would sleep with your children? - Genesis 19:30-38
• Lot offered his daughters to a rape gang to save immortal angels sent by God. - Genesis 19:8

So much for the moral argument.
Morality comes from men. It is utilitarian. We learn from our mistakes. Men, not god, ended slavery for most of the world. Yet God knew from the beginning of time knew it was wrong.
If God is good, he cannot stand by while children die of dysentery, cholera, murder, rape.
If god flooded the world because man used his free will to be angry, free will was not real and therefore original sin is null and void. The curse is lifted.

-God created the universe from nothing but something cannot come from nothing.
-God came from nothing.

I agree with this one: Your arguments don't prove anything because God only exists in the minds of men.
All the gods are in your head. The demons dwell there too. But they are made by men to answer questions about the world and the universe back when dessert shepherds thought an eclipse was a sign from God. 

Today we know better. 
Imagine what we will know tomorrow.

You Cannot Know a Belief is True

You cannot know a belief is true, you can only believe what you know. If I told you to try as hard as you could to believe the earth was flat you couldn't do it. You can pretend that it is but you would never truly believe it. You are aware of empirical evidence that it is a sphere. You are aware of no empirical evidence that god exists.
You can only pretend.

20 Quotes on Atheism by Controversial Authors

Twenty atheist quotations from very smart people on religion and god and a few from me. Don't just take my word for it, hear it from the experts.

1. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. – Samuel Clemens


2. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins


3.  Philosophy is; questions that may never be answered. Religion is; answers that may never be questioned. – Anonymous


4. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. – Anonymous


5. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. – Christopher Hitchens


6. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. Hitchens 3:16 - Christopher Hitchens


7. So what can be done in the wake of a religious free existence? How can a void be filled when it is so engrained in our DNA. I suggest looking for a spirituality that doesn't require suspension of your disbelief. - D. Mitchell Sweatt


8. "Wisdom is the sheath, intellect the sword." - D. Mitchell Sweatt


9. I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. - Sam Harris


10. The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. - Sam Harris


11. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer - Madalyn Murray O'Hair


12. "Why would a god send himself, pray to himself, sacrifice to himself, to make up for the sin he created as punishment for not being humble?" - D. Mitchell Sweatt


13. How do you make Holy water? Boil the hell out of it. – Anonymous


14. Satan did not create evil. Satan did not create Satan, God did. If murder is evil, who is responsible for the murder? @atheistmadness


15. It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. - @stephenfry


16. Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. - Benjamin Franklin


17. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell


18. Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. - George Weinberg


19. The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. - 1797 Treaty of Tripoli


20. If we aren't talking to theists, what is the point? We don't need to save ourselves from ourselves, we did that already. - D. Mitchell Sweat

Churches Do Not Make Nations Great

Churches do not make nations great. 

Writer: Dennis M. Sweatt

Churches are used to move the masses to wars without end; to disenfranchise groups with glorified hate. To enrich pastors like Ken Ham who spend millions building monuments to

allegorical stories like Noah's flood. 

Or mega churches and million dollar incomes for preachers like Joel Osteen, or Creflo Dollar. While children starve in America.

The church doesn't have anything man does not already possess. The silver and golden rules were already in use thousands of years before the story of Jesus took place. Asia did not have to be told by god to stop blood sacrifices, with another blood sacrifice, they just figured it out.

It's always a trap to say if we turn to this form of heuristic, if we teach people to fear an unrealistic for of eternal torture they will mend their ways. If this form of control really functioned the way the church has claimed it would for thousands of years, we wouldn't be in this state.

What state are we in? 

While it seems that violence is an everyday occurrence, it is. It has always been. When a nation, or the world at large begins to progress, when our wants and needs are easier to meet, we become complacent. Creatures of habit, we want out world to run along the 'freeway' without engine trouble.

According to NATO, CDC and the World Health Organization, violence has been on a steady decline since the nineties. Peaking when Bush senior left office and declining a year after Bill Clinton took office.

At the same time, church attendance has been dropping steadily.