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Many fundamentalist Christians believe that a child who has reached "the age of accountability" (can fully comprehend their need for repentance/salvation) will go to hell if they die before they accept Christ. Folks, we need to grow up and stop believing stupid blood cult shit.

There are two kinds of people in the world, 1) those who, when considering the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?", say "I don't know, let's ask questions until we figure it out.", and 2) those who say "A supernatural Being did it. The end." Don't be a #2.

Shawn "All Outta Bubblegum" McClure Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all. You think to elucidate what is obscure, by doubling the obscurity; to solve difficulties, by multiplying

A person's supposed experience of God isn't a guide to truth—because the perception of such an experience is "grounded" in nothing more than the experiencer's conviction that it's 1) from God and 2) reflective of reality, making any claim of its truth inherently self-referential.

"Good" is not a property—it's a value judgement.

There's no God. Enjoy life. We live once.

The Golden Rule is a universal moral principle that predates Christianity.

Nothing is intrinsically bad. "Bad" is an inherently subjective judgement that can only be made by a conscious agent relative to some metric of "bad" referenced by that agent.

Atheism has nothing to demonstrate. We just don't believe YOU, theists, because YOU haven't substantiated YOUR claims. That is all. Theists fallaciously try to shift the burden of proof because they they can't carry it, and have no recourse but to dodge, deflect, and distract.

—The Holy Spirit is merely a rumor. —No God has ever been demonstrated. —The resurrection of Jesus is ancient hearsay. No evidence of ANY of these besides hearsay and anecdote (which aren't really evidence at all) has ever been found outside the human mind. GODS ARE IMAGINARY.

Any claim that parts of the Bible are intended metaphorically immediately discredits any claim that other parts are intended literally, because there is no plausible metric by which to distinguish metaphorical from literal when supernatural claims of any sort are involved.

People always have and always will have a huge capacity for being thoroughly shitty to each other and other creatures—this reality has never been different. There was no Adam or Eve, no "Fall of Man", and there's never been any sign of a God outside the addled minds of believers.

Ma and Pa's Remedial Homeschool For Smoothbrained Christians not only boasts the cream of the matriculating mental crop, it also apparently teaches them to fuck up even when they're trying to use sarcasm to impugn science. The Earth isn't millions of years old—it's BILLIONS.

Feelings of hopeful and wondering transcendence, as well as tendencies to anthropomorphize and grasp at patterns, are innate to humans, but religion per se is a learned cultural and ritualistic response to these more fundamental tendencies, not an innate tendency itself.

The softer the theology, the harder it is to challenge. Why? Because vagueness deflects critique better than fire and brimstone ever could.

The Bible is little different than other fiction books except for the scope of its ubiquity & normalization, which are due in greatest part to its mandate as the official holy book by the largest, most powerful and influential ancient empire in world history under pain of death.