Closely associated with taking action that should be considered immoral is the fact that there is so much evil in the world today. If there are any gods, why don't they act to eliminate it? The absence of substantive action against evil would be consistent with the existence of evil or at least indifferent gods, which is not impossible, but few people believe in such gods. Most claim that their gods are loving and powerful; the suffering on Earth makes their existence implausible.

 

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Christians opposed to equal rights for gays are ramping up their anti-gay and anti-equality rhetoric in California. They are slightly behind in polls about people's opinions on whether equal marriage rights should be taken away from gays so they need to work harder in order to achieve their authoritarian goals. Unfortunately, when the extreme right "works harder," they often descend into absurdity and madness.

Case in point here comes from Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa. He recently led a conference call sponsored by Concerned Women for America in which he used militaristic language in order to describe his commitment to undermining equality and then compared same-sex marriage to radical Islam — but in a way that made radical Islam look better and more peaceful! Read more...

Subjective Validation is also sometimes called the 'personal validation effect' because it refers to a process by which people accept some claim or phenomenon as valid based solely upon a few personal experiences and/or subjective perception. This subjective validation is generally at the heart of people’s reports of the experience of paranormal phenomena. For example, when it comes to readings by astrologers or psychics, a person will quickly focus on and remember the “hits” or accurate statements, but forget and ignore the “misses,” or inaccurate statements. In this manner, the person has subjectively validated their preconception that there exists some sort of astrological or psychic connection between things in the universe.

 

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Some people might tend to think that atheists are such a minority that they have never heard of any famous atheists who have contributed to society. As a matter of fact, many famous philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and more have been atheists.

 

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