Category Archives: purpose

Dear Zubin (Part II)

Posted on March 12, 2014 by M. Rodriguez

The First part of this post can be found here. I didn’t understand why Zubin did not want a relationship with God. Who wouldn’t want a relationship with Jesus? Who wouldn’t want a deeper understanding of God? Who wouldn’t want … Continue reading →

Posted in character, christ, christian, emotions, god, jesus, jesus the christ, life, love, purpose, reason, reasoning, Salvation | Tagged Christ, christian, Christianity, Daniel Everett, de-conversion, Evangelism, friendship, God, jesus, life, mindset, reason, reasoning, Religion and Spirituality | 5 Comments

Is God Eternal? Is God Transcendent?

Posted on November 11, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

A while back I did a post on God being Infinite and the many contradictory problems with calling God infinite. And when doing that post, in the comments section the post turned to issue of God being Eternal. So I … Continue reading →

Posted in apologetics, atheist vs christian, attributes, attributes of God, character, christian, contradiction, cumulative case, debate, Free-Thought, god, ontology, purpose, reasoning, Response | Tagged christian reasoning, Christianity, epistemology, eternal, everlasting, free will, freethought, God, God's attributes, Immanence, immanent, infinite, kalam Cosmological argument, logical contradiction, ontological, perfect, Perfect God, Perfection, philosophy, proof by contradiction, reasoning, Richard Swinburne, timeless, transcendent | 62 Comments

Top Atheist Podcast

Posted on October 15, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

This is my personal list of the Top 3 Atheist/Skeptics podcast. All of these Podcast are somewhat Christian Friendly in the sense that they don’t try to mock the Christian and that obscene language is kept to an absolute minimum. 1. … Continue reading →

Posted in atheism, atheist, christian fraud, Free-Thought, freethinker, message, podcast, purpose, religion, religion vs. science, skeptic, skepticism, The Thinking Atheist | Tagged atheism, Atheist, podcast, skeptic, skepticism, Survey, the thinking atheist | 4 Comments

200th Post

Posted on September 16, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

It’s another milestone for the Bittersweet End Blog. My 200th post I never would have thought when I first started blogging that I would have enjoyed it so much nor reaching 200 completed post (and also 60,000 views). One thing … Continue reading →

Posted in inspiration, life, Musings for Life, occam's razor, Philosophy for Life, purpose, quote, youtube | Tagged BitterSweet, freethought, inspiration, life, logic of life, Musings, poem, poetry, quotable quotes | 4 Comments

Atheist by Default

Posted on August 27, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

For me personally, when I think of my non-belief in a formal fashion and think of all the different -isms out there, I have to be honest. I can relate to all of them, and to a degree they all … Continue reading →

Posted in agnostic, atheism, atheist, confusion, emotions, Free-Thought, freedom, freethinker, occam's razor, paul the apostle, Philosophy for Life, purpose, skeptic, skepticism, unbelief | Tagged agnostic, Agnostic atheism, Agnosticism, anti-theist, atheism, Atheist, freethinker, freethought, humanism, humanist, ignostic, Ignosticism, Nontheism, secularism, skeptic, skepticism, unbelief, World view | 5 Comments

Religion vs. Science: How they are fundamentally incompatible?

Posted on August 10, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

This is the last post in my Religion vs Science Series. Different Worldviews of Faith and Science I would definitely say that a christian/religious worldview contradicts that of a scientific world view. For in a religious worldview morality, faith, God, … Continue reading →

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Church without God — by design

Posted on July 18, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

We all need community and fellowship, even the unbeliever.

Posted in atheism, atheist, church, conference, contradiction, debate, emotions, god, message, pastor, purpose, religion, unbelief | Tagged Church, CNN, God, Greg Epstein, humanism, Jerry Dewitt, Religion and Spirituality | 2 Comments

The Best of the BitterSweet Blog

Posted on June 29, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

It has been nearly two years blogging for me. I have over 2500 comments, nearly 50,000 Views, over 150 followers and a new wealth of knowledge that has transformed my life. Considering this mild accomplishment in my two years period … Continue reading →

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The Writing on the Wall

Posted on June 19, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

My Little sister wrote this on her old bedroom wall, and I thought the words had such an inspirational air of rational true, I thought I would take a picture of it and share it as a post.

Posted in doubt faith, Free-Thought, freethinker, inspiration, message, occam's razor, Philosophy for Life, purpose, quote | Tagged BitterSweet, certainty, inspiration, life, logic of life, Musings, quotable quotes, quote | 1 Comment

Ray Comfort and The Evolution of the Banana

Posted on June 14, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

For those who are not familiar with the background of this video I wanted to highlight something very critical other than the typical ridicule and silliness of it. That Ray Comfort is using a banana (The atheist nightmare) as proof … Continue reading →

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The Death of God

Posted on June 9, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

I remember somewhere in the middle of my journey into extinguishing my skepticism and doubt I came across the Phrase, “God is Dead.” It caught me off guard, because it was such a bold statement. Bold that such a person would … Continue reading →

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Scientific Prayer

Posted on May 8, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Does Prayer Work? That is the Scientific question. There have been many studies over the last 65 years as pertaining to the effectiveness and verifiability of the assured applicability of prayer. The majority of the studies have taken place under … Continue reading →

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In Life…

Posted on May 3, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Do whatever you WANT to do. Do whatever you NEED to do. Do whatever you HAVE to do. -But make sure you do all three.

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An Atheist Christian Marriage

Posted on April 24, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Information on a mixed Christian-Atheist marriage from an atheist perspective is not always the easiest to find. It seems whenever I look up information on this topic; all I can find is Christian sources and articles. So I decided to … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist vs christian, character, emotions, love, marriage, message, purpose | Tagged anti-theist, atheism, Atheist, Austin Cline, christian, Christian faith, Christianity, life, logic of life, Marriage, podcast, religion, Religion and Spirituality | 1 Comment

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 →

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Going to Church as an Atheist

Posted on April 1, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Three weeks ago, the wife and I were running Very late to church, so she suggested we go visit another church that was closer and I knew the pastor who was over it, because I use to attend church with … Continue reading →

Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, church, emotions, human nature, life, Philosophy for Life, purpose, religion | Tagged Atheist, Christianity, Church, community, Easter, Holiday, mindset, Religion and Spirituality, unbelief | 1 Comment

Why A New Covenant if the First was Perfect? Is the Law of God Perfect?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

This Post is Part of Series of Post called Dissecting the Anatomy of God. Quick View: Table of Contents, This all together is a confusing topic to tackle, and somewhat difficult to explain or gather because of the way people/believers interpret the … Continue reading →

Posted in apologetic, apologetics, atheist vs christian, bible contradictions, bible study, biblical difficulties, christ, church, Common Sense, contradiction, covenant theology, creation, creationism, history, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, King David, law, laws of logic, messiah, purpose, religion, scriptural difficulties, systematic theology, theology, youtube | Tagged adam, bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, common sense, covenant theology, creation, eve, immutable, jesus, Jew, moment of truth, Mosaic covenant, New Covenant, New Testament, Old Testament, perfect, Perfect God, religion, scriptural difficulties, the gospels | 33 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 →

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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 →

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Defending your Faith-Free Life

Posted on January 21, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Originally posted on Triangulations:
Let’s start with a Bible quote and my coined definition: …Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; —…

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