David G. McAfee
"لا شيء أكثر نرجسية من اليقين بأنك خُلقت على صورة إله خالق كلي القدرة، وأن هذا الإله ذاته يستجيب لدعواتك، ويعرف اسمك، ويقيم معك علاقة شخصية."
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"There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you."
"لا شيء أكثر نرجسية من اليقين بأنك خُلقت على صورة إله خالق كلي القدرة، وأن هذا الإله ذاته يستجيب لدعواتك، ويعرف اسمك، ويقيم معك علاقة شخصية."
David G. McAfee
"Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury. They are forced to rely on blind faith that these things occurred, that people were at one time able to overcome or render inert natural laws."
"المعجزات أمر شائع في الكتب المقدسة. يُقال إن أسلافنا القدماء لمسوا جراح المسيح، وتأكدوا من معراج محمد إلى السماء، بل وتفاعلوا مع آلهتهم مباشرة. أما اليوم، فلا يملك المؤمنون ترفًا كهذا. فهم مجبرون على الاتكال على إيمان أعمى بأن هذه الأمور قد حدثت، وأن الناس كانوا في زمن ما قادرين على التغلب على القوانين الطبيعية أو إبطال مفعولها."
David G. McAfee
"Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with their God and they used to 'feel' the power of prayer. They've since learned that it was all a farce, that their feelings were internal emotions and not some external force."
"غالبًا ما ينسى المؤمنون أن معظم الملحدين كانوا متدينين في السابق، وأن العديد من غير المؤمنين كانوا يعتقدون أن لديهم علاقة شخصية مع إلههم، وكانوا "يشعرون" بقوة الصلاة. لقد أدركوا منذ ذلك الحين أن كل ذلك كان مجرد مهزلة، وأن مشاعرهم كانت عواطف داخلية وليست قوة خارجية."
David G. McAfee
"Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion."
"تفسير المجهول ينبغي أن يُترك للعلم، وأسئلة السلوك الحسن والسيئ يمكن أن تجيب عنها الأخلاق، أما الإلهام فغالباً ما يُعثر عليه في الفنون. لم تعد هناك حاجة للبناء الاجتماعي المتمثل في الدين."
David G. McAfee
"Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me wish that forced conversion didn't work so extraordinarily well."
"أليس من المدهش أن "أمير السلام" قد قُدِّمَ تاريخيًا إلى الثقافات الجديدة في أغلب الأحيان عبر عنفٍ شديد؟ إن المستعمرين الأوروبيين والأمريكيين يبرزون هذا التناقض بطريقة تجعلني أتمنى لو أن التحويل القسري لم يكن ناجحًا إلى هذا الحد الاستثنائي."
David G. McAfee
"If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was hatched from a cosmic egg? Or that Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy, brought billions of his people to earth 75 million years ago and killed them using hydrogen bombs? These are all religious beliefs of others, but that doesn't mean calling them ridiculous is an insult - it's an objective fact until proven otherwise."
"إذا كنت ترى أن وصفي للمعجزات التوراتية المزعومة بالسخيفة أمرٌ مسيء، فعليك أن تسأل نفسك ما إذا كان من السخافة الإصرار على أن محمدًا طار على حصان مجنح. أو أن الأرض فقست من بيضة كونية؟ أو أن زينو، دكتاتور الاتحاد المجري، أحضر مليارات من شعبه إلى الأرض قبل 75 مليون سنة وقتلهم باستخدام القنابل الهيدروجينية؟ هذه كلها معتقدات دينية للآخرين، لكن هذا لا يعني أن وصفها بالسخيفة إهانة – بل هي حقيقة موضوعية حتى يثبت العكس."
David G. McAfee
"A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only spontaneously add a soul when we evolved into Homo sapiens?"
David G. McAfee
"You don’t want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our ‘Truth,’ and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing ‘In atheism we trust’ on all US currency and saying, ‘One nation, under atheism” in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation… Wait…"
David G. McAfee
"Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists."
David G. McAfee
"If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me."
David G. McAfee
"If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity."
David G. McAfee
"Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose religion at all, or who are simply not all are interested in discussing belief or lack thereof."
David G. McAfee
"What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by our developed conscience (or "moral sense") – and not a God or gods."
David G. McAfee
"When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery."
David G. McAfee
"Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them as "an abomination." He is the same deity that gave instructions on how to beat slaves and the same divine Creator that suggested the stoning of non-believers and disobedient children. You have to accept the good along with the bad... after all, he came not to abolish the Hebrew laws, but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17)."
David G. McAfee
"Christians believe, as is reported in the New Testament scriptures, that Jesus of Nazareth healed 10 men with leprosy. It sounds like an astounding feat, but compare that to Jacinto Convit who saved thousands of lives when he developed the vaccine that protects us from it. In 1988, Convit was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his anti-leprosy vaccine. So, while the promise of Jesus’ healing power is a centerpiece of the Christian myth, the demigod’s results leave something to be desired when compared to the rigor of man’s scientific inquiry."
David G. McAfee
"It’s perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the Bible and claim that you are not religious is disingenuous."
David G. McAfee
"Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required."
David G. McAfee
"If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered."
David G. McAfee
"For those who want to pray for me to "find God," please don't waste your prayers. If you really think God is listening to you, then please use those precious moments to ask God to care for the sick and dying, and leave me out of it. I'm happy without my faith and with living my life in the here and now. Besides, thousands before you have prayed for me to find God and it hasn't worked yet. Why would God value your request over theirs?"
David G. McAfee
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