Why Your Atheist Friend Will Never Change His Mind Unless…They Stop Caring About If What They Believe Is True Or Not.
Seriously, what is the evidence that God exists?
Why Your Atheist Friend Will Never Change His Mind Unless…They Stop Caring About If What They Believe Is True Or Not.
Seriously, what is the evidence that God exists?
In order to tell me anything about God, God's existence has to be proven. Otherwise, why should I care?
If I tell you that Dave Daveson is going to give you a million dollars if you become his friend and worship him and that if you don't be his friend, he'll kill you, would you care at all if I never prove to you that Dave Daveson exists and just tell you to have faith he exists?
@gr8commandment
#atheism #Christianity #God #religion
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Weaving together decades of tradition and fresh new approaches, Weaving
Our Roots brings together pastoral counseling and Spiritually Integrated
Psychotherapy communities. This gathering celebrates their distinctions
and shared commitment to presence, depth, and reverence for the
spiritual dimension in healing.
Open to all disciplines and diverse spiritual orientations, from those
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The #ACPE #Psychotherapy Commission is a community invested in the
practice of integrating #spirituality into our work. This work may done
by a volunteer helper, a #spiritual #healer, or a licensed mental health
practitioner. We offer training. Learn more at
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#CEU #socialwork #psychology #mentalhealth #psychiatry #faith
#healthcare #SIP #SIPtraining #pastoral #counseling #religion #spiritual
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@psychology @socialpsych @socialwork
@psychiatry @spirituality @religion
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The #ACPE #Psychotherapy Commission is a community invested in the practice of integrating #spirituality into our work. This work may be done by a volunteer helper, a #spiritual #healer, or a licensed mental health practitioner. We offer training.
Learn more at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org . Blog at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org/news .
#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry @spirituality
@religion #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #faith #spirituality
If someone's going to tell people the story of Jonah and the Whale or any mythology story, they should expect some of those people to point out the obvious flaws of those stories, and if they have a problem with that, then they shouldn't tell anyone these stories, or at least only tell people who won't question them.
@iju @atheistdude
#atheism #Christianity #religion #God
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This is the most blatant example of theistic projection I've ever seen.
Pastor: "If you worship and pray to a God that isn't real, you won't get a response."
Pastor also: [Worships and prays to a God, and when someone points out that this God doesn't respond to anyone, they just tell them to have faith that this God exists]
Link to video: https://mastodon.social/@aliveinchristaz/114876958336707003
Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser – „The Whale“ (2022)
Jetzt mal ehrlich: Dieser Film war ein Monster. Auch wenn es „nur“ drei Oscars dafür gab, hat dieses kleine Kammerspiel für mich 22/23 die Saison als größte Überraschung dominiert. Es war schlicht unglaublich, was Arronofsky und Fraser aus einem Theaterstück extrahiert und auf die Leinwand gebracht haben. (ARD, Wh)
https://www.europesays.com/2257264/ ‘Hug therapy’: How Pope Leo is trying to unify Vatican | National #CatholicChurch #catholicism #Christianity #faith #HolySee #partners/afp #Pope #PopeFrancis #Religión #RomanCuria #StatoDellaCittàDelVaticano #StatusCivitatisVaticanae #tncen #Vatican #VaticanCity #VaticanCityState #Vaticano
Have it on good authority that in the second coming of Christ, he'll bring his own nails and cross and tell us to get it over with.
What a shitshow #religion is.
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
The Church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
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The IRS may have now opened the door for dark money to flood into churches—a particular concern here in Texas, where lavish campaign-related spending by Christian billionaires from West Texas now exerts tremendous sway over state politics. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-irs-texas-churches-johnson-amendment/
Today's post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. As you might expect the articles focus on the Trump administrations war on science and climate change and its effects.
https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/07/were-toast-61.html
#ClimateChange, #Environment, #Medical, #Politics, #Religion, #Science, #Society, #Technology
[#veille] Les 906 ecclésiastiques catholiques du diocèse de Tarbes (1880-1905) sont indexés et les données désormais en ligne ! https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/UD/FRAN_IR_060658/diocese_195
#archives #archivesnationales #Girophares #histoire #clergé #religion #histoirepolitique #Tarbes #crowdsourcing #HautesPyrenees @geneafr @archivistodon
Blessed God on high
Lord of golden Olympus
Where the sun shines eternally
And the trees bear fruit forever
Blessed God on high
Stirrer of the clouds
That bring rain and wind
And roar across the lands of man
Blessed God on high
Bearing the thunderbolt
That flashes like the sun itself
And strikes fear into all who see it
Blessed God on high
Lord of thunder
That rings forth and shakes the home
Startling with its warning
Blessed God on high
Ruler of the heavens
King of Gods and Men
Son of mighty Kronos
Blessed God on high
O Zeus of the silver beard
God of Gods; Lord of Lords
Let my voice reach you that you may bless us all
Photo: Jupiter ca 150 AD, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
#paganism #pagan #hellenismos #religion #prayer
CLÉANTE:These are the arguments of all your kind:
Since they can’t see, they think that no one ought;
Whoever does, is tainted with free thought;
Whoever balks at pious affectation
Fails to hold piety in veneration.
Come now, for all your talk, I’m not afraid;
Heaven sees my heart, and I know what I’ve said.
[Voilà de vos pareils le discours ordinaire:
Ils veulent que chacun soit aveugle comme eux;
C’est être libertin que d’avoir de bons yeux;
Et qui n’adore pas de vaines simagrées
N’a ni respect ni foi pour les choses sacrées.
Allez, tous vos discours ne me font point de peur;
Je sais comme je parle, et le ciel voit mon cœur.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Frame (1967), 1.5]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77776/
President Lula is being very political when he says: "I think socialism failed because we rejected religion."
But there's some truth to that. Although atheism would certainly be preferable, humanity is not even close to ready for it.
For #socialism to deliver it's promise it really should let #religion in. So much of what Jesus taught is actually in line with socialism.
Marx & Engels were utopians in the 18th century. They didn't know what we know about how evolution made many of us religious
New from @drdrbrockman: Christian right activists have long chafed at the Johnson Amendment, contending that it makes the IRS into “speech police” and chills the constitutional rights of religious leaders.
And this opposition often goes hand-in-hand with Christian nationalism. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-irs-texas-churches-johnson-amendment/