Tag Archives: God

Miracles in Moore, OK

Posted on May 23, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Reblogged from Finding Truth: By now, everyone knows about the devastating tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma on Monday, May 20th. This morning, on NBC’s Today Show, I heard a touching story about a woman who was in labor when … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, christian fraud, deceived, emotions, god, prayer, religion, skepticism, youtube | Tagged Atheist, CNN, God, Miracle, miracles, Supreme Being | Leave a comment

God Loves You So Much...

Posted on April 27, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Reblogged from Thinking out loud: Read more… 5 more words

Posted in bible, character, christ, contradiction, death, deceived, evil, fallacious reasoning, Free-Thought, god, inspiration, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, laws of logic, love, messiah, read your bible, reason, religion, Salvation, skeptic, skepticism | Tagged bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, common sense, death, God, God's attributes, hell, love, Salvation | 3 Comments

Frederick Sparks: Why I am an Atheist?

Posted on April 20, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

I am an atheist because I have never seen any real evidence of any gods of any kind. Even as a child it bothered me that god did not act in obvious and public ways as depicted in the Bible. … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist, belief, god, quote, reason, reasoning, skepticism, word of god | Tagged begging the question, belief, bible, biblical intelligibility, God, quotable quotes, quote, Word of God | Leave a comment

The Voice Inside

Posted on April 9, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

By Bart S. Phillips I once believed the voice inside my head was God. I once believed the voice in me that said That taking things that are not mine is wrong, That hitting and hurting others is wrong, That … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Sense, fraud, god, life, poem, poetry, reason | Tagged common sense, does god exist?, God, poem, reason | 7 Comments

Understanding the Atheist Unbelief

Posted on April 5, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

I remember one of the minor stepping stones into me questioning my faith was the understanding of the burden of proof and the scientific method. I did not understand that atheism was the ‘Lack of Belief’ in that it takes the … Continue reading →

Posted in atheism, atheist, atheist vs christian, attributes of God, belief, character, Common Sense, contradiction, creation, creationism, doubt faith, fallacious, fallacious reasoning, god, jesus, laws of logic, logic, miracle, probability of God, reason, reasoning, religion vs. science, skeptic, skepticism, unbelief, youtube | Tagged agnostic, atheism, Atheist, deductive argument, deductive reasoning, Deism, deity, fallacious reasoning, God, Ignosticism, indirect proof, proof by contradiction, proof for the bible, Reductio ad absurdum, reduction to the absurd, reductive reasoning, Theism | 3 Comments

Scriptural Reasoning

Posted on April 3, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Go to Main Menu, Bonus topic for my series: Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is a growing academic field of study, because it is a relatively young philosophical field of thought. In some academic circular it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Common Sense, conference, debate, Free-Thought, freedom, freethinker, philosophy, purpose, reason, reasoning, religion, scripture alone, systematic theology, theology, youtube | Tagged christian, christian reasoning, Christianity, community, conference, God, Guillermo Hansen, judaism, Judeo-Christian, Musings, quote, reasonable faith, religion, Religion and Spirituality, scriptual reasoning, theology | 6 Comments

NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find and Locate God

Posted on April 1, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

WASHINGTON—After more than five decades of tireless work, brave exploration, and technological innovation aimed at a single objective, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Wednesday that it had finally completed its mission to find and kill God. NASA officials … Continue reading →

Posted in death, religion vs. science, satirical | Tagged April Fools Day, death, God, God is Dead, Holiday, NASA, science, Supreme Being | 3 Comments

Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Posted on March 28, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

It was only after reading a book review on the Finding Truth blog about this book did I decide to buy this book on amazon. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading. It … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, attributes of God, bible contradictions, biblical difficulties, Book Review, christian, death, debate, evil, faith, god, prophecy, quote, reason, reasoning, religion, religion vs. science | Tagged Abortion, Atheist, belief, Book Review, Christian faith, christian reasoning, Christianity, faith, God, God's attributes, morality, new atheism, new atheist, Sam Harris, Scientific skepticism, skeptic, skepticism, Stem cell | 3 Comments

Does the God of the Bible measure up to his own Standard of Perfect?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

The bible says we should judge a tree by the fruit that it bears, so for the sake of being biblically sound we will hold the biblical God to that same standard. To determine if the God of the Bible … Continue reading →

Posted in apologetic, apologetics, atheist vs christian, bible contradictions, bible study, biblical difficulties, carm, christ, christian fraud, confusion, contradiction, debate, god, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, laws of logic, quote, scriptural difficulties | Tagged adam, Adam and Eve, bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, deity, eve, genesis, God, immutable, perfect, Perfect God, proof by contradiction, quote, scriptural difficulties | 5 Comments

God’s Perfect Plan.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

I actually stole this idea from TheoricalBS on YouTube. (Disclaimer: So I do not claim Originality or Original Thought) However, when I decided to talk to my wife and pastor on the things I found wrong with Christianity this is … Continue reading →

Posted in attributes of God, christian faith, christian fraud, christian history, god, history | Tagged Christianity, God, Yahweh | 4 Comments

The Argument for and Against A Perfect Creator

Posted on March 5, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

I know this topic is overlapping with Intelligent Design and creationism, but I’ll try to focus primarily on the topic at hand. A Perfect Creator???? And the attributes and character of a perfect creator? Question #1. Why would a Perfect … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist vs christian, carm, Common Sense, contradiction, creation, creationism, evolution vs. creation, faith, Free-Thought, freethinker, god, inspiration, Intelligent Design, logic, occam's razor, ontological argument, probability of God, quote, reasonable evidence, religion vs. science, The Thinking Atheist | Tagged christian reasoning, creation, Creationism, Deism, deity, God, God Test, Intelligent Design, logic, logical contradiction, perfect, Perfect God, philosophy, quotable quotes, quotes, reasonable belief, reasonable evidence, reasonable faith, Scientific skepticism, skepticism, Theism, theist | 19 Comments

The Ontological Philosophy of a Perfect God

Posted on February 28, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

This is more of the philosophical question of the existence of God and could a perfect God actually exist? To many the conceived mindset or the idea of a perfect God presents us with a philosophical quandary in the ontological and … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist vs christian, attributes of God, Common Sense, debate, god, ontological argument, ontology, theology, youtube | Tagged Existence of God, God, God's attributes, logic, Mulla Sadra, ontological argument, Ontology, Perfect God, philosophy, Rene Descartes, skeptic, theology | 13 Comments

Whats coming up next?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

As for the BitterSweet Blog, I am adding four new pages for the ease of use and navigation purposes. The main new page will be the Series, Studies and Topics, which will contain a variety of things that I have … Continue reading →

Posted in attributes, attributes of God, Book Review, character, contribution post, god, guest post, message, ontological argument, probability of God, religion | Tagged BitterSweet, Book Review, does god exist?, faith, God, God Test, God's attributes, Musings, perfect, Perfect God | 3 Comments

Is the God of the Bible Confused?

Posted on February 25, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Bible Difficulty #11 Confusion-1 Corinthians 14:33 “God is not a God of confusion [disorder] but of peace…” (NIV) other versions say “God is not the author of confusion, but of peace….”(KJV) So is God the creator or not the creator … Continue reading →

Posted in bible contradictions, biblical difficulties, Common Sense, confusion, contradiction, debate, deductive reasoning, god, logic, reasoning | Tagged bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, Christianity, God, infallible, logical contradiction, mindset, scriptural difficulties | 5 Comments

Just another atheist Questionaire

Posted on February 18, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

This will probably be my last questionnaire post, I like doing them, because they are fun, simple, and easy to do. But they don’t serve the true purpose of the blog, which is too examine and evaluate the belief in … Continue reading →

Posted in atheism, atheist, belief, bible, contradiction, Free-Thought, god, history, purpose, quote, religion, unbelief | Tagged Albert Einstein, Atheist, belief, bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, christian, Christianity, does god exist?, faith, God, unbelief, Unfaith | 14 Comments

Why I am no longer a Christian?

Posted on February 16, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

On several occasion I usually get some version of the two following Question and all these questions are really not about the existence of (any generic) God, but Why I don’t ultimately believe in the Christian God.: What is the … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist, attributes, attributes of God, bible contradictions, bible study, biblical difficulties, christian, creation, creationism, cumulative case, deconversion, early christian history, god, Intelligent Design, philosophy, purpose, religion vs. science, theology | Tagged atheism, Atheist, atrocities, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, christian history, Christianity, church history, Creationism, does god exist?, early church history, God, God's attributes, historical jesus, Intelligent Design, manifesto, morality, Prayer, reason, science, scriptural difficulties, unanswered prayer | 19 Comments

The Christian Delusion

Posted on February 12, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

{A Word of Caution, this video does have cursing, offensive, and fowl language.} I remember watching this video by Richard Carrier and being struck with the premise that Carrier calls Christianity a delusion. I remember thinking that was a very … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist vs christian, bible, christ, christian fraud, deceived, emotions, jesus, jesus the messiah, logic, messiah, religion, youtube | Tagged belief, Christian Delusion, Christianity, debater, delusion, God, god delusion, religion, religious delusion, Richard Carrier, Sam Harris | 6 Comments

An infinite God and his limitations

Posted on January 10, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

How could an infinite God take on limitations? Could God still be infinite if he is limited? Well before we tackle this question, let’s define the topic as according to some traditional apologetics. “The infinite nature of God simply means … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist vs christian, attributes, attributes of God, biblical difficulties, character, christian fraud, Common Sense, confusion, contradiction, freethinker, god, infinite, logic, skeptic, skepticism, theology | Tagged apologetics, atheism, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, deductive reasoning, does god exist?, God, God Test, God's attributes, Infinity, Judeo-Christian, logic, ontological, ontological argument, Perfect God, reality, reasoning, The thinker, the thinking atheist | 46 Comments

Saying Goodbye to Religous Dogma

Posted on December 31, 2012 by M. Rodriguez

So I remember listening to this song on the radio a while back, I remember thinking how much it captivated how I felt at that moment about leaving God, Religion, and Christianity. That even though it was nice and I enjoyed … Continue reading →

Posted in belief, religion | Tagged BitterSweet, Christianity, delusion, dogma, God, god delusion, God is Dead, life, religion, Religion and Spirituality, religious delusion, skeptic, unbelief | 55 Comments

My Last Prayer

Posted on December 27, 2012 by M. Rodriguez

So it was August of 2011 that I prayed my last real prayer. Yeah I’ve done lil fake prayers at church, and when we bless food with other Christians. But the one in August of 2011 was the last sincere … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist, belief, christian faith, church, doubt faith, emotions, life, message, miracle, reason, reasoning, religion, Salvation, unbelief | Tagged atheism, Atheist, belief, Christianity, God, Prayer | 6 Comments