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Jew Love?

On April 3, 2010, In Arguments Against Christianity, By The Armchair Antichrist

What I find particularly disturbing with some Christians is their support for Israel. A good example is John Hagee. His support for Israel might seem politically motivated at face value, but if you have watched any of Hagee’s sermons you will notice that there is a strong focus on the End Times. His support for Israel seems to be nothing more than a desire to see those End Time prophecies fulfilled.

More relevant to me is the use of the world “Zion” in the Chinese Christan community of where I am from. Everything is Zion this and Zion that. Even for events for small children there is an emphasis on Zion. Give me a fucking break. Christians have no room for Jews in heaven (except maybe Messianic Jews). In fact, you most likely believe that Jews will go to hell. So, give up this charade.

Hasn’t millennia of oppressing Jews been enough? Do you really need them to play around with them in some sick and twisted game to hasten the End Times?

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Apologetics is a Dead End

On September 28, 2009, In Arguments Against Religion, Christianity, Religious Arguments, By The Armchair Antichrist

This is an extension to my previous post, What is God?. Let’s say I grant theists that an omniscient, omnipotent and infinite god created the universe. How will you be able to prove that this god is the specific one described in your holy texts? For all you know it could be a deistic god, a god that created the universe and then ignored it and left it to its own course. In that case, there would be no reason for you to worship it and praise it because this is a god that does not care about your existence.

Another option is that this god might be one of the thousands of creator gods that have been described in the past. If that were the case the current god you are worshipping will probably be the wrong one. This god could also be Satan or one that has never been conceived of by man. There is just no way of establishing that this god is your god. An apologists might respond by handing me a list of miracles or fulfilled prophecies attested in their holy texts, but that is also a dead end.

Miracles (if they happen) only show that the physical laws of the universe are not absolute. They are irrelevant and don’t prove anything else. The argument that miracles prove the existence of God is simply invalid. There are many alternate explanations for miracles. It is possible that a trickster deity like Satan, Loki or a evil daemon/genius might be messing with our heads. We might actually go to hell for following the rules in the bible and go to heaven if we completely ignore them. Miracles by themselves are useless. But, then again miracles don’t happen.

With fulfilled prophecies it is the same thing. Theists will often have a very strong confirmation bias when it comes to prophecies. They will argue strongly for the ones that seem to have been fulfilled, but conveniently ignore the ones that have blatantly failed to occur. But, on further examination even the ones that have seemed to be fulfilled are actually really weak prophecies. Most of these are either self-fulfilling prophecies that work to cause themselves to be true or are so vague that many different events could by them.

When all is said and done, theologians who practice apologetics should quit while they are ahead if they want to be intellectually honest. They should stop referring to themselves as “Dr.” and go back to preaching to a flock of sheep where they can impress the simpletons with their big words and fancy speech.