How did my Mithras challenge go

Well this year I sent out christmas cards but crossed out the word christmas and wrote in mithras above it. The only negative comment was somebody at work who told me to get a life. A surprising number of people just seemed to ignore the fact I was wishing the a merry mithermas instead of chritmas however I did have one interesting conversation with a person at my local supermarket and they agreed to watch zeitgeist the movie however tried explaining the amazing similarities between jesus and mithras through mithras plagarising old testament propheses however they couldnt explain how they knew jesus wasnt also a rip of frpm old testament propheses.

The Mithras Challenge

This year I'm going to send cards out wishing people a merry mithermas. I will also only wish people merry mithermas. Why? Well then people will wondering what I'm on about and it will cause them to start asking questions. These questions will hopefully leave them to research into mitheras as doing so will cause them to learn about the stunning paralels between jesus and mitheras. Its amazing what wishing somebody a merry mithermas can do!

The fallacies of john lennox

Your sky daddy is unfalsafiable

Imagine that you woke up one morning and the words 'I exist - love god' were written in the sky. Would that be conclusive proof that god exists. Well no, it could be that the vatican somehow discovered how to write words in the sky and are tricking us. Or maybe we could turn to paralel universe theory in which case everytime a cloud moves a bit two universes are created, one with the one cloud formation in and another with a different cloud formation. Over enough paralel universes all containing randomly shaped clouds, it would hardly be surpsing that one of them contained clouds that spelled out the words 'i exist - love god' Here lies the problem for the theist, whatever evidence you provide for your skydaddy us atheists will find an alternative explanation. Therefore your sky daddy hypothesis is unfalsafiable and as any atheist logic book will tell you, if a theory is unfalsafiable then it cannot be true.

Hawking disproved your sky daddy

Now as some of you may know, Steven Hawkings has proven that with gravity universes like our own will explode into being without any cause. Therefore we dont need a sky daddy. Now the maths and physics behing Hawkings thorey are a to complicated for most of the readers of my blog to understand however Hawking is a very intelligent person so if he says it then there must be good evidence to back it up. Ofcourse, many anti-science people will argue against Hawkings conclusive arguments but I would rather follow science than christian aplogists saying sorry that science has disprovoed their fairy in the sky.

Where does morality come from?

Jonny sometimes asks me where morality comes from. i think sam harris has done such a great job explaining it here that i have nothing else to add.

Being a dick

Now Phil Plhait has done a controverisal talk called dont be a dick Loads of other atheist blogs are commenting on it so i thought id add my own thoughts. You see, we should be dicks towards christians and proud of it. Richard dawkins sums it up nicely here:

I am more interested in the fence-sitters who haven’t really considered the question very long or very carefully. And I think that they are likely to be swayed by a display of naked contempt. Nobody likes to be laughed at. Nobody wants to be the butt of contempt.

So basically, by being rude to Christians and calling them names we bully them into becoming free thinkers. Clearly this works. Who sells more books? Phil Plait or Richard Dawkins. Who has the most popular blog? PZMyers or Phil Phait. We should be dicks and give christians the contempt they diserve.