Category Archives: Response

2013 in Review for the BitterSweet End Blog

Posted on January 1, 2014 by M. Rodriguez

Happy New Year Everybody.  I just want to give a special thanks to those who have followed my blog.  I hope your New Year is full of love, hope, peace, and prosperity. I know haven’t been posting and commenting as often on my … Continue reading →

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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 →

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The Greatest Evil About Religion

Posted on October 21, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” ~ Steven Weinberg, “Men never … Continue reading →

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A Unique Day at Work

Posted on September 30, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

This is a story about something that happened to me at work a few days ago.  So that morning when getting ready for work, I woke up earlier than usual so I had a little time to burn.  I checked … Continue reading →

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A Collection of Failed and Discrepant Bible Prophecy

Posted on August 30, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Personally, I am not an expert in Bible prophecy nor I am studied in this topic.  So what I decided to do was put together a collection of failed biblical prophecy and general articles on failed biblical prophecy.  Just a quick note for the reader; this is dealing specifically with predictions and prophecies … Continue reading →

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Religion vs. Science: How and Where they Contradict?

Posted on August 1, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

In my previous post I talked about how among the opinion of the general populace that even though many say that there is no contradiction among religion and science.  The christian community is struggling in this area because nearly a … Continue reading →

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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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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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Evangelical Atheism

Posted on February 13, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

Arkentan a frequent visitor to this blog left this comment on my book review post of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity.  At first I was going to leave just a short reply, but I decided to turn it into a post, … 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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15 Question Atheist Ice Breaker

Posted on January 4, 2013 by M. Rodriguez

I saw this questionnaire on the Bold Questions Blog, and it was also cited on the Everyday Infidel blog.  I thought this was a good questionnaire, because it is designed around introducing yourself in a light-hearted fashion. 1. At what point … Continue reading →

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Celebrating an Atheist Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2012 by M. Rodriguez

I initially was not going to make a post about Christmas and atheism, until I saw this article about Atheist celebrating Christmas on the Finding Truth Blog and that for an atheist to celebrate Christmas is not just ‘merely insane, … Continue reading →

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Answering the Well Spent Journey Atheist Questionnaire

Posted on November 12, 2012 by M. Rodriguez

So in all fairness to Matt of the Well Spent Journey Blog who took my Theist Challenge. I took his 12 Questions to ask an Atheist.  In addition he does have a very interesting summary post, on the different answers … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Depiction of Christianity

Posted on November 5, 2012 by M. Rodriguez

I remember seeing this a while back, and what struck me about it was not the mocking overtone of the comment.  But that the only thing that I could disagree with as being wrong, was the zombie part.  The other question that … Continue reading →

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To PlasticPatrick

Posted on September 25, 2012 by M. Rodriguez

So I’ve actually had a new frequent visitor to my blog. I usually don’t make comments part of a blog post, but I thought this one might be interesting.  He has actually done his own blog post directed at me. … Continue reading →

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