http://www.cristianpopa.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:25:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Atheist scientists who made the mistake of giving credibility to religious apologists by debating with them are often accused of upholding a hypocritical position when they maintain that faith cannot be a valid source of knowledge, while at the same time denying the existence of God. No one can disprove ... http://www.cristianpopa.com/atheism-as-faith/42 It is often an argument of those who object to Atheism that the worst man-made catastrophes to have befallen the world in the 20th century, Nazism and Communism, have been the direct result of Atheism. Intermittently, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic, Mao Zedong and others accompany Hitler and Stalin on the ... http://www.cristianpopa.com/atheism-is-innocent/40 This is a picture I took in Amsterdam in January. Bulgaria and Romania have been admitted into the EU on January 1st, 2007. I couldn't help but think "Wait another couple of months, I wonder if you'll be laughing then." http://www.cristianpopa.com/oh-but-thank-you/39 In the wake of the surprising success that atheist books like The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris and Breaking the Spell, by Daniel C. Dennet have had, a new phrase was coined to describe these authors and ... http://www.cristianpopa.com/conversational-intolerance-not-beheadings/38 Liberalism is comparable to the Solar System, in terms of the good it did for humanity. It encourages and sustains progress and it is only because of progress that we don't stone adulteresses to death, think that bleeding is the best cure for everything or buy and sell people anymore. ... http://www.cristianpopa.com/letter-to-liberals/9 Promiscuity, by my reckoning, is one's habit of having frequent and, to varying degrees, indiscriminate sexual relationships. What I'm trying to understand is why, assuming that promiscuity does not come accompanied by cheating, neglect of duties, emotional imbalance, or other obvious inadequacies, why, then, we regard it as something negative. ... http://www.cristianpopa.com/why-was-promiscuity-a-bad-thing-again/8