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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 4, 2015
- 3 min
“God is just Ego, Misspelled….My Ego has Better Credentials than your Ego.”
My Anti-theist Friend, Marchal: “God is just Ego, Misspelled….My Ego has Better Credentials than your Ego.” One of my favorite people to converse with about religion is my good buddy, Marchal. I met Marchal in college, and like me, he was getting a bachelors degree in psychology. We lost touch after Heidelberg, but we recently rekindled our friendship. He contacted me after he read a couple blog posts, he was excited to share with me that he too, is an atheist. Marchal has an
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Chris Hanna
- Jan 19, 2015
- 6 min
The Atheist Hell House
Fears of war and pestilence. Fear of loss and failure. Fear the hate of your enemy. Fear your god and savior. Savior? Failure. What do you fear? Fear is your god. Deep and insidious, beneath your consciousness, and just beyond your peripheral vision the horror of sin lies. The most base human fears, materialized with an agenda, and aimed at the young and vulnerable. Instincts derived from over a hundred thousand years of life in hominid form and millions of years before to
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 15, 2015
- 6 min
The Atheist Hell House
Fears of war and pestilence. Fear of loss and failure. Fear the hate of your enemy. Fear your god and savior. Savior? Failure. What do you fear? Fear is your god. Deep and insidious, beneath your consciousness, and just beyond your peripheral vision the horror of sin lies. The most base human fears, materialized with an agenda, and aimed at the young and vulnerable. Instincts derived from over a hundred thousand years of life in hominid form and millions of years before to
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 12, 2015
- 14 min
Personal Journey Series: My Atheist Testimony
I get a lot of messages, most of which are asking about my deconversion from christianity. People want to know why I left, what it meant to me when I was a christian, and why I don’t see any reason to return. For anyone who has asked, and anyone else who is curious, here is my testimony. I started life as an atheist. My parents, who were both raised as catholics, never felt the need to force religion or god upon me. I have never seen my mother or father as being faithful. As
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Christopher Tanner
- Dec 15, 2014
- 5 min
Season’s Greetings!
It’s that time of year when the sun approaches its southernmost track across the northern hemisphere’s sky and people of various religious persuasions celebrate the winter solstice without actually knowing that that’s what they’re doing. Predictably, some of the Christian commentators who make their living defiling the airwaves and manipulating public opinion are doing their damnedest to ramp up paranoia about a wholly hallucinated “war on Xmas.” Crèches on public property an
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Christopher Tanner
- Oct 27, 2014
- 4 min
Secular Philosophy: Countering Pascal
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” -Christopher Hitchens – God Is Not Great One of the last bastions of faith is a proposition known as Pascal’s Wager. Presented by the philosopher Blaise Pascal and it goes like this. “God is, or He is not” A Game is being played… where heads or tails will turn up. According to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions. You must wager (it is not optional). Let us weigh the gain and the l
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Christopher Tanner
- Aug 26, 2014
- 2 min
Heaven is for Sociopaths
Stop for a moment, close your eyes, and picture someone you love in flames. Picture their skin bubbling and bursting through waves of intense heat, picture it blackening and shrinking as they fall to their knees, their screams gurgling up from scorched lungs through their blistered throat, bursting from their charred lips to pierce the fetid air. Now, imagine yourself picking fresh fruit in an abundant field, a joyous smile upon your face, cool grass beneath your feet, the ai
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Chris Hanna
- May 6, 2014
- 9 min
Gene, oh Gene, how I beat you with your own god.
Gene Hamilton (don’t worry I have no idea who he is either) was kind enough to respond to my thoughts on looking into the eyes of god and what I would do should just an opportunity arise. The following is his commentary succeeded by mine. I apologize in advance for the heavy sarcasm as this is how I deal with trolls. He begins:
What the Bible teaches: Second Peter 3:9 says that Jehovah “does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” Rather tha
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