Rick Beckman

Tag: atheism

  • The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion and Public Life

    We, at the World Athe­ist Con­fer­ence: “Gods and Pol­i­tics”, held in Copen­hagen from 18 to 20 June 2010, here­by declare as follows: We rec­og­nize the unlim­it­ed right to free­dom of con­science, reli­gion and belief, and that free­dom to prac­tice one’s reli­gion should be lim­it­ed only by the need to respect the rights of others. We […]

  • The James Webb Space Telescope Images and the Mocking of Christians by Atheists

    The James Webb Space Telescope Images and the Mocking of Christians by Atheists

    The James Webb Space Telescope's first images were certainly awe-inspiring, but some people have taken them as an opportunity to mock those with a different worldview from them. Let's put a stop to that behavior.

  • A Tale of Two Worldviews

    A Tale of Two Worldviews

    Chris­tian­i­ty is fas­ci­nat­ing. The sto­ries of the Bible, the mir­a­cles and teach­ings described through­out? It’s end­less­ly curi­ous, with more nuance than it is often giv­en cred­it for, par­tic­u­lar­ly among my fel­low unbelievers. Far too often, unbe­liev­ers pick up on car­i­ca­tures of Chris­tian­i­ty — shal­low exag­ger­a­tions or dis­tor­tions that can be eas­i­ly mocked in text­book exam­ples […]

  • Wheaton’s Law

    Some­time in the past year or two, I was added to a Face­book group called The Black Sheep. I did­n’t think much of it, nor have I inter­act­ed much there­in because I pre­fer inter­act­ing more in the pub­lic realm than with­in groups online for some rea­son. It seemed a peace­ful place, though, and the con­ver­sa­tions […]

  • Adam and Eve Had Only Three Sons!

    Adam and Eve Had Only Three Sons!

    Six to ten-thou­sand years ago, some Chris­t­ian apol­o­gists assert, the human species began with a sin­gle man and woman pair: Adam and Eve. And we are told that they had sev­er­al children: Cain… Abel… Seth… Wait, that’s only three chil­dren and… they’re… all… boys. “The human race is the prod­uct of Eve hav­ing sex with her sons!” […]

  • Arguments Atheists Should Not Use

    I have lit­tle doubt that athe­ists are right about the whole god thing, name­ly that there is no evi­dence for any deity or is oth­er­wise no rea­son to believe in one. That said, athe­ists can be and in fact can be often wrong in how they express their lack of belief, espe­cial­ly in how they approach or engage those who […]

  • How to Prove an Atheist Exists, Biblically

    How to Prove an Atheist Exists, Biblically

    The Bible tells of a simple, repeatable experiment designed to show whether God exists, but can it prove atheists exist instead?

  • In Which I Went from Being a Christian Fundamentalist to an Atheist

    In Which I Went from Being a Christian Fundamentalist to an Atheist

    After several years of faith in Jesus, I came across a passage in the Bible "face to face" -- absent the shield of commentary or apology. It would altogether kill my faith in the God of the Bible. This is my story of deconversion.

Rick Beckman