How do you explain the actions of Stalin, Mao, ect.

Stalin's actions, and subsequent killing was done because of Socio-Political reasons, not religious ones. From a very short online search, I would also say that the motivation behind Mao was Socio-political.
Now, where their actions right? No, they weren't. But with there actions, the world is not blinded by what is written in some book, and can judge there actions objectively, something that cannot be done by most with actions that are clearly religiously motivated.

WHat was the worldview that was behind there socio political philosophy, the motivation behind there decisions.

Well, apparently, neither does Chrisitianity if a murdering cannibal like Jeffery Dahmer can be admitted to heaven while a wise and altruistic man like Ghandi can't be.

What price street cred? Because that's the only logical explanation for this sort of 'justice'.


-Kerry O.

"no one is righteous, no not on, all have turned away and fallen short of the glory of God"

This is another thing I don't get about religion. Why willfully believe that there is a defect of some sort in us that needs to fixed.
I don't really see the point, and I don't really see how it is healthy...

So, your argument is that unbelief is morally equivalent to murder, dismembering and cannibalism under your code of Christianity?

See, it's that cheap forgiveness and the total lack of regard for the victims of these crimes as cannon folder for quelling dissent with a totally illogical and potentially dangerous 'Free Will' creed of 'Deity First, Right or Wrong' that makes me recoil in horror as a Humanist.

-Kerry O.

Because like in the book 'Animal Farm', it allows the devout believer to think "All Animals are Equal, but Some Animals are More Equal Than Others" with impunity. With the competition lowered to the lowest common denominator, it allows The Elect to hoist the Jolly Rodger and proselytize without end, amen.

In reality, it's more like Harlan Ellison's novel "The Glass Teat", about how television mesmerizes and 'instructs'.

-Kerry O.

one reason why I believe Christ did not Rise from the DEAD.



Zero credible evidence.

Do you mean the immature inherited evil we are without the guide of religion?

As though we are naughty children who cannot control ourselves or be self responsible without the guidance of a book of doctrines developed by power hungry men.

Yeah, Basically. I really don't understand the whole "We Are Sinners, by nature, and we have to spend our lives begging for forgiveness" or the Scientology "We have Implants from the E.T. Dictators that we need to remove"
Ultimately, I think that thinking like that is very unhealthy(Many faithful politicians would welcome a nuclear war, as they would view it as the beginning of Armageddon). Ultimately, I do feel that Religion is a virus that mankind needs to eliminate if we are to survive. Otherwise, it won't be just us we are killing, but Every other animal that has as much a right to live as we do.

You admit there is evil in the world. How does your worldview deal with the problem of evil?

Its not an argument. It is realizing the holiness of God.

Forgiveness was not cheap. It cost God more than you and I could ever know.

How does your worldview deal with the problem of evil?

My worldview does not violate the laws of logic?

"When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned."

"But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of (G)the one (H)the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by (I)the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many."


Isnt it believed by naturalists that evolution has hard wired our brain for faith.

Fact #1: After his crucifixion, Jesus was buried by Joseph of Arimathea in the tomb. This fact is highly significant because it means that the location of Jesus’s tomb was known to Jew and Christian alike. In that case it becomes inexplicable how belief in his resurrection could arise and flourish in the face of a tomb containing his corpse. According to the late John A. T. Robinson of Cambridge University, the honorable burial of Jesus is one of "the earliest and best-attested facts about Jesus."{15}

"Fact #2: On the Sunday morning following the crucifixion, the tomb of Jesus was found empty by a group of his women followers. According to Jakob Kremer, an Austrian specialist on the resurrection, "By far most exegetes hold firmly to the reliability of the biblical statements concerning the empty tomb."{16} As D. H. van Daalen points out, "It is extremely difficult to object to the empty tomb on historical grounds; those who deny it do so on the basis of theological or philosophical assumptions.""

"Fact #3: On multiple occasions and under various circumstances, different individuals and groups of people experienced appearances of Jesus alive from the dead. This is a fact that is almost universally acknowledged among New Testament scholars today. Even Gert Lüdemann, perhaps the most prominent current critic of the resurrection, admits, "It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus’s death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ.""

"Finally, fact #4: The original disciples believed that Jesus was risen from the dead despite their having every reason not to. Despite having every predisposition to the contrary, it is an undeniable fact of history that the original disciples believed in, proclaimed, and were willing to go to their deaths for the fact of Jesus’s resurrection. C. F. D. Moule of Cambridge University concludes that we have here a belief which nothing in terms of prior historical influences can account for--apart from the resurrection itself."


I am amply justified in believing Christ rose from the dead based on these four facts.

Those aren't facts. They are only found in the bible. That is only one source.

They are believed to be historical facts by the majority of scholarship.

Your little bible-thumping scholarship believing it, does not make it true.

Josephus, written about 93 AD

"Antiquities 18.3.3 Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ, and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians so named from him are not extinct at this day."