Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Monday, November 15, 2010

NoBeliefs Website

According to its introduction page, the main goal of this website is to inspire "free thinking". It says that free thinking can enable a person to see through the many dangerous false beliefs that are common in modern societies and cause great harm to the world. It also says that many important social and political reformers have been freethinkers, and mentions Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a fighter for womens' rights), Richard Dawkins, and Thomas Paine as examples.

The coverage includes modern social issues as well as important historical debates and controvercies, especially those which still aren't completely resolved even today. Examples of the types of subjects discussed include future energy shortages, preservation of natural environment and wildlife habitat, religious intolerance, biological evolution, roots of modern terrorism, and needed reforms in modern financial systems.

A section of the site called "The Dark Bible" describes various "atrocities" which the bible attributes to God, such as the great flood, the killing of the first-born Egyptian children, and the destruction of Jericho. It also discusses the devil, demonic possession, and the many modern Christians who ignore the original teachings of Jesus.

Go to NoBeliefs.com to see all the articles. There is also a frequently-updated section of stories about recent news events that relate to political and social causes.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Ex-Christian Website

This website was created to provide assistance to ex-Christians. Mostly these are people who were raised in Christian families and attended church regularly in their youth, but lost their belief in their teenage or adult years.

Many ex-Christians face hostility from friends and family members who are still Christians. They also discover that American and other western societies discriminate against non-Christians in numerous subtle ways. One of the purposes of this website is to help ex-Christians cope with these difficulties.

A large section of the site is devoted to testimonials. These are accounts by ex-Christians describing how they came to recognize the falsity of basic Christian beliefs. Many of the accounts also describe the problems that the writer encountered after he or she lost their faith.

The site also includes a number of articles which discuss the fallacies and contradictions inherent to Christian belief, and the enslavements, tortures, and murders that Christians have inflicted on other people during conquests of other countries and during attacks on heresies and witchcraft.

To visit this site, go to Ex-Christian