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Why God is important | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. Why God is important. Why God is important. October 16, 2012. No Comments ↓. God is a benevolent, imaginary being you can talk to. Even if you believe God is real, when you talk to God, you are talking to an image in your mind, not to a person who would require you to speak out loud and enunciate clearly. The work of bringing Her closer is mine. I am what I am, and I seriously offer this imaginary delicacy, in houses or boxes, with mouses or foxes, to skeptics, curmudgeons,...
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Atheistic Prayer | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. October 28, 2012. No Comments ↓. Prayers are a means to an end, but the end, in my view, is not the pulling of strings in the material world by supernatural entities. It is the deepening of our relationship with the immaterial entity we pray to. We pray, and that relationship becomes more real to us. Regardless of the reality of the party addressed. Similarly, when I pray to my non-existent God, I build that relationship. I strengthen my sense that an immaterial being i...
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Praise the Lord! (without gagging) | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. October 28, 2012. No Comments ↓. Much liturgical prayer is about praising God and extolling His greatness. This tends to fill atheists with scorn: If God is so great, why does He need humans to remind Him of the fact all the time? In fact, I have seen myself and so many other people change in ways they never would have believed possible by asking God for help that I sometimes think: “God is truly amazing, to be able to accomplish all that, and without even existing! I am wh...
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Personal material | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. Archive for Personal material. Why God is important. October 16, 2012. No Comments ↓. God is a benevolent, imaginary being you can talk to. Even if you believe God is real, when you talk to God, you are talking to an image in your mind, not to a person who would require you to …. Read more ›. Posted in Personal material. Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists. October 13, 2012. 2 Comments ↓. Read more ›. Posted in Book sections. Everything happens for a reason.
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Book sections | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. Archive for Book sections. Everything happens for a reason. November 17, 2012. No Comments ↓. Believers are wiser than they seem. At a glance, this idea, “everything happens for a reason,” seems the most absurd, sometimes offensive, wishful thinking. The Holocaust happened for a reason? Tell me, what could God have possibly had in mind …. Read more ›. Posted in Book sections. October 28, 2012. No Comments ↓. But as an …. Read more ›. Posted in Book sections. October 28, 2012.
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Post metaphysical spirituality | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. Archive for Post metaphysical spirituality. Everything happens for a reason. November 17, 2012. No Comments ↓. Believers are wiser than they seem. At a glance, this idea, “everything happens for a reason,” seems the most absurd, sometimes offensive, wishful thinking. The Holocaust happened for a reason? Tell me, what could God have possibly had in mind …. Read more ›. Posted in Book sections. October 28, 2012. No Comments ↓. Read more ›. Posted in Book sections. One of the ...
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Everything happens for a reason | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. Everything happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason. November 17, 2012. No Comments ↓. Believers are wiser than they seem. At a glance, this idea, “everything happens for a reason,” seems the most absurd, sometimes offensive, wishful thinking. The Holocaust happened for a reason? Tell me, what could God have possibly had in mind to justify that? I would be more careful in the future. I may feel shaken, but not anxious, because I feel grateful.
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Prayers | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. October 28, 2012. No Comments ↓. Much liturgical prayer is about praising God and extolling His greatness. This tends to fill atheists with scorn: If God is so great, why does He need humans to remind Him of the fact all the time? But as an …. Read more ›. Posted in Book sections. Do I love writing about God more than I love God Herself? October 4, 2012. No Comments ↓. Read more ›. Everything happens for a reason. Why God is important. 2016 God for Atheists.
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Under construction | God for Atheists
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Moved to: TailoredBeliefs.com. October 17, 2012. No Comments ↓. This page is place where I’m stashing things I mean to write about or comment on later. Another sick soul: No time right now, but I have to comment on this: The Real Problem with Atheism. From Paul Wallace at the Huffington Post. Even more, I need to comment on this great book review: The Literary Response to Radical Atheism. Subscription required, but cheap). Here’s someone else’s commentary on it: The New New Atheists. Why God is important.
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