March 26, 2025 by Archon's Den

The Point Is Over Here – You Missed It

I recently read a Bible-thumping blogpost from a fundamentalist Christian. The line that caught my attention was….
I used to listen to a little bit of music by the Rolling Stones, but I stopped when the Atheist Satan-worshipper Mick Jagger released that heretical Sympathy For The Devil.

So many things wrong with that claim!! Where does one start??
Definitions: It is impossible to be an Atheist, and worship Satan, because the definition of an Atheist is a person who does not believe in God, or any other supernatural beings, such as Satan.

Mick Jagger: Mick was raised Protestant Christian – CoE, Church of England/Anglican. He attended a Christian Secondary School. He became a Catholic when he married his first wife, so he was a nominal Christian when he wrote and released the song. Only later in life, he began to investigate Buddhism, showing that, for many religious people, various religious philosophies are not particularly believable, and easily changed out, or ignored.

The Song: The lyrics, supposedly about the Devil, clearly say “I am a man of wealth and taste,” and go on to refer to historical happenings where Devilish deeds were clearly done by men. Even if he wished to claim that Satan somehow seduced men into committing these acts, that would be accepted dogma, not heresy.

I did not debate or argue with him. His mind was clearly and firmly made up. He did not wish to be confused by the facts. If he could not even get a mere song and songwriter straight, how could he ever expect to convince anyone of his claim of the existence of his pet deity?

December 4, 2024 by Archon's Den

I See – But I Don’t See

People see what they expect to see. They see what they want to see. It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they have been fooled.

I recently watched YouTube video from a civil rights auditor, simply trying to spread the message of God Bless The Homeless Veterans, hand-printed on a cardboard sign. It began with a screen shot of a police incident report, and had the audio of the phone call that caused it.

Hi. I just dropped my son off at school, and I’m worried for him. There’s a homeless bum, panhandling on school property. He’s yelling at the students and he won’t leave.

Every one of those claims is absolutely false!

First the school security officer came out and tried to bully him to move on, (Y’all can’t do that here.) but was told that he was on public property, (the sidewalk) indulging in a Constitutionally-protected activity, and that the cammer was going to stay for a while.
If you don’t leave, I’m going to call the cops.
Do what you gotta do.

Sure enough, within minutes, a police officer showed up and began the bullying and misinformed harassment again.
You can’t be panhandling. We have a city ordinance against panhandling.
I am not panhandling. I have never asked for money.
Well, you were yelling at the students, causing a disturbance.
I didn’t yell at anybody. I never raised my voice.
I’m trespassing you from school property, because you refused to leave when asked.
I have never been on school property. I have video proof of that. I was never asked to leave.
We have had several phone calls, saying that you did. WHY WOULD THEY LIE?

Several??! We know of only one phone call. Why would the officer lie? Because he believed it. Even if there were more than the one call – the callers weren’t lying. They were mistaken – although, perhaps not honestly.

What they saw…. A man they didn’t recognize, with no car, no kid to drop off, and a camera – therefore a danger. Wearing shorts and a hoodie,– not dressed in white collar, not dressed in blue collar, and sticking around – therefore, no job to go to, no income, broke, homeless, a bum, and panhandling. He obviously wouldn’t politely remain on the sidewalk. He would try to follow the kids into the school, to get money from the students, and when they refused, he would get loud, and possibly violent.

I don’t fault the parents for their concern for their children. I do blame police officers like this one who arrive with their minds already made up, blindly believing what someone has claimed, ignoring ‘Innocent until shown guilty,‘ refusing to look at evidence or accept suspects’ explanations.

One of the main intentions of Civil Right auditors is to educate the public, especially policemen, and demonstrate Everyone’s legal rights, and how easy it is to lose them. Anyone who gives up freedom for security, winds up with neither. Far too many police don’t want the laws of the country obeyed; they just want peace and quiet, and are willing and eager to flex their unlawful power and authority to achieve it.

December 28, 2022 by Archon's Den

Dr. Who’s Questions

The Doctor (He doesn’t say, ‘of what.’) claims that he just wants to ask some respectful questions of Atheists – no trick or gotcha ones. He wants to amass the information, and sift and sort it, to produce a published report. When asked when he might submit it, and to whom, he was delightfully vague.

He and his wife were Atheists, until each of them had a revelation from the Christian God, and they became Jews For Jesus. His questions natter on and on – and on, full of presuppositions and leading statements. Another blogger graciously simplified the list, although I included part of his number six, for context and clarity. I thought I’d have a go at them.

Is Your Atheism Based on Study or Experience? …

Yes!, to both. As young as seven or eight, I regarded stories that started with “In The Beginning” to be no more believable than those that began, “Once Upon A Time.” I didn’t realize until I became an adult myself, that other children, and adults, took them seriously. I became curious enough to begin a long-term investigation. I spent a great deal of time looking at arguments for or against God’s existence, and eventually had to conclude that there just wasn’t any evidence for God that stood up to examination.

Do You Have Purpose and Destiny? …

Yes. I have had many ‘Purposes,” and will probably have more before I die, but each of them was created and affixed by me, or those close to me, not by some supernatural entity. I believe that I have a destiny. It’s just that I am not enough of a fortune-teller to see far enough into the future to get a clear glimpse of what it might be.

Does God Exist? …

This might seem a strange question to be asking of Atheists. In the original long-winded version, he wanted Atheists to provide total, complete, 100% proof, that there was absolutely no chance that God exists. This is the philosophical equivalent to home invasion. There are almost no things that can be utterly proved not to exist. He appeared to want a tiny gap, where he could wedge his definition of God into. I consider the possibility of God existing, only slightly more likely than the existence of a married bachelor.

Can Science Explain the Origin of Life? …

Science has explained the origin of life! There is one major, largely-accepted (by biologists and related scientists) theory, and a couple of minor variations. They all entail the chemical soup present in early Earth seas, with geothermal energy and solar radiation fueling and mutating the chemical reactions, until self-replicating RNA strands evolved upward to cells and DNA. All that free energy powered the increasing DNA complexity.

Have You Questioned Your Atheism? …

Constantly and continuously! I have never been convinced that I can’t be wrong. Over the years I have done considerable reading and study. Now, with YouTube, I can watch debates and lectures. Atheism is merely the lack of belief in God/gods – the failure by theists to provide sufficiently convincing evidence. (See above) With all the research and investigation that I have done, I continue not to be convinced that God is guilty of existing.

Are You Materialistic? …
Are you completely materialistic in your mindset, meaning, human beings are entirely physical, human consciousness is an illusion, and there is no spiritual realm of any kind?

First, a pedantic language lesson, I think that phrasing should be ‘are you a materialist?’. ‘Materialistic’ refers to someone who prioritizes obtaining money and possessions! I believe that humans, and all else within our Universe, are material. I don’t think it makes much sense to say that consciousness is an illusion. I think a more accurate phrasing of the materialist position on consciousness would be that it’s the product of material things/physical laws. I continue to see no evidence of a spiritual realm of any kind, except in the hopes and dreams of the gullible. I do not believe in tarot, Ouija boards, crystals, ghosts, mind-reading, fortune-telling, or a miracle-producing God.

Would You Be Willing to Follow the God of the Bible?

It depends which part of the Bible you’re talking about when you say ‘God of the Bible’.

From reading the earlier part of the Old Testament, I remember a god laden with petty jealousy, orchestrating hideous mass deaths, with archaic views on rape and slavery and some strange gaps in his scientific knowledge. The existence of this god would be bad news.

In the later part of the Old Testament, I glimpsed a different and better kind of god; the god of Ezekiel 18 and similar passages, expecting us to take personal responsibility but also willing to see our virtues and our efforts and to judge us fairly. The existence of this god would be good news, and, yes, I would follow and honor him.

In the New Testament, we get the most hideous god of all; the one who condemns all non-Christians to an eternity of torment, who blames the Jews for sticking to the laws that He himself strictly instructed them to keep to forever, who expects us to overlook the ways he acted back in the early books, and who tries to convince us that all these things are really signs of great love and concern on his part. The existence of this god would be terrible news. And, to answer the question, I could never honor such a god, and while I suppose I’d follow him because ‘Or burn in hell’ isn’t really much of an option, it would never be willingly.

November 30, 2022 by Archon's Den

Eight Ways To Be Wrong About Atheists

The quickest and surest way, is to not actually engage with Atheists. Don’t talk to them, debate them, or ask them questions. Don’t listen to, or accept, their answers and explanations. Just keep spouting groundless religious claims that you inherited from someone else. Be like this guy, who had

Eight Reasons Not To Be An Atheist

An atheist assigns himself to life with merely finite purposes

His first claim is full of the presupposition of choice and rebellion. If indeed, God does not exist, then finite purposes are all that there are. His further claim that even Atheists feel that there is something bigger than them – something outside them – still doesn’t prove that IT is God. A little concrete evidence of His existence might change that.

The atheist must also suppress the demands of logic

Again, we see the presupposition from Something complex must have been designed, to, A design requires a designer, so, The designer must have been God. None of these three claims are necessarily true, and do not necessarily follow one another. A large mirror, dropped on a concrete floor, will produce an amazingly complex result, with no designer. Apologists like this don’t even understand Logic, unless it works in their favor.

Yet, ironically, the atheist has to believe in miracles without believing in God

Here, he trots out the old, tired, often-refuted Kalam Cosmological Argument, saying that everything that begins to exist must have a cause. Since he doesn’t have enough imagination, and scientific understanding, he can’t (and doesn’t want to) think of any alternative, so he plugs in God as the only option.

Physicists have posited several theories for the existence of the Universe. Constant energy infusion into a bubble of the Meta-verse may have caused it to shit spit out our local representation. Since Time only came into existence with the coalescence of Matter, there was never a Time when the Universe did not exist. Therefore, it is possible for the Universe to have a finite past – yet to have existed infinitely – no God required.

An atheist must also suppress all notions of morality

Why??! Just because he says so??! Most Atheists make no claims about morality, because it is a term that has been co-opted by Christians. Atheists have ethics and empathy. The Christian God of the Bible – the archetype of their moral values – not only permitted, but encouraged, murder, rape, torture, forced marriage, genocide, racism and slavery. Good Christians and their morals clog prisons, rehab centers and divorce courts. I want nothing to do with Christian morals.

In fact, the atheist must conclude that evil is an illusion

So, if Atheism is valid, there are no real evils, just violations of human customs or conventions. How hard would it be to think of murderers as merely having bad manners?

“Evil” is indeed, an illusion, one believed in by most Christians. It does not exist as a distinct entity. For any given situation, there are different possible series of actions. Some will be more beneficial to an individual, and the Human race as a whole. Others will reduce individual and group happiness and well-being.

Drinking battery acid – or Ivermectin – may not be “evil,” but it will not produce the most good. Neither will murder. It is far more than mere ‘bad manners.’ I know of no Atheist who would claim it was. I am appalled that this Christian Apologist would do so.

The atheist must also live with the arrogance of his position

His assertion that there is no God requires that he pretend to possess total knowledge.

That is why Apologists get so upset when Atheists insist that they simply don’t believe because they have not been presented with convincing evidence. For the Christian, it’s like punching a fogbank, so they lie pretend that Atheists say things that most of us don’t. For many Christians, their religion is their life. Despite their protestations, they aren’t half as upset that we don’t believe in their God, as they are when they find that we don’t believe in them.

The atheist must also deny the validity of historical proof

The extensive manuscript evidence of eyewitnesses to the resurrection is presented in an unbiased, authentic manner.

Yeah, right??! Pull the other one. Four Gospels that don’t agree with each other, and one author who wasn’t there, but who claims that 500 people saw the risen Christ – only – that’s all there is, one man’s claim. There is no list of names, or where/how many places, this occurred. There are not 500 sworn affidavits, just a vague assertion. I couldn’t get someone convicted of double-parking with that quality of evidence.

Finally, atheists must admit that humans are not importantly different from other animals

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, that desperate, ego-driven need to feel special. Humans are like, and different from, other animals in a variety of ways, and to a range of degrees. Science is finding that species like whales and dolphins and apes and chimpanzees are remarkably human-like in many ways. I’d like to drop him in the middle of the Serengeti, near a pride of hungry lions, and let him explain to them, just how important he is.

The atheist’s problem with belief in God is not an absence of evidence but suppression of it.
Citation needed! Many well-known Atheists were priests, preachers, seminarians, and evangelicals. Reputable polls show that, on average, Atheists know more about the Bible and the Christian faith, than most Christians do. Their ‘evidence’ is not being suppressed. It is being dismissed as unproven, and unconvincing.

July 6, 2022 by Archon's Den

Tweets For Twits – Just Deserts Course

If you didn’t know yet, God is on Twitter. He has a few more things to say about the human condition, which He takes no blame or responsibility for.

In an ideal scenario, the President of The United States, and the worst person in the world, would be two different people.

I genuinely can’t remember making you all this stupid.

To paraphrase me: Being gay is not a choice.
Being an asshole is.

America: Where a black man can’t take a knee on a football field for 30 seconds, but a cop can take a knee on his neck for eight minutes.

Most people who doubt a woman’s claim of assault, do NOT doubt that I had a son who rose from the dead.

You should not vaccinate your children – unless you are absolutely sure that you want them to live.

Next time, no people.

There is life in outer space, and it is intelligent, and that’s why it is staying far from you.

If gay people are a mistake, they’re a mistake that I’ve made hundreds of millions of times, which proves I’m incompetent, and cannot be relied on for anything.

The idea that you evolved from apes is disgusting.
Isn’t it nicer to believe that you all descended from one couple and their incestuous children??!

Just because Jesus died for your sins doesn’t mean that you should keep committing them, assholes.

THE FIVE STAGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Denial
Guilt
Depression
Acceptance
Drowning

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he’ll contribute to the global over-depletion of the oceans.
So give him a salad, maybe??!

The answer to the question, “Can people really be that stupid?” is always yes!

If you can’t get along with CANADA, you’re not human.

Standing up for what you believe in isn’t a virtue, if what you believe in is awful.

I am now the most unverified account on Twitter, and the biggest unverified entity in the Universe.

150 different species go extinct every day.
You keep not being one of them.

Six feet away, or six feet under.

I apologise for this virus interrupting the global catastrophe already in progress.

Saying “guns don’t kill people” is like saying “defibrillators don’t save people.”

Artificial Intelligence is not a threat to Humanity. Natural stupidity is!

Somewhere in China, there’s a bat getting high-fives from every other animal he meets.

It’s only been a short time, but Steven Hawking has already proven, to My Face, that I don’t exist.

Fuck you!

Marriage is between a man and a woman – except gay marriage, obviously.

The people who call out my name Sunday morning aren’t as much fun as the ones who call it out Saturday night.

These are not His final words, just the last ones in this post.

February 23, 2022 by Archon's Den

Creating God

Define the God you believe in, and tell me why you believe.

For any debate or discussion between Atheist and Christian, this is a good idea. It assures that both parties are talking about the same thing.

At no other time is it a good idea to just let each person define their deity. If God exists, He/She/It/They are far too vast and varied for a mere human mind to comprehend. This is why Christians are often disappointed when Atheists fail to believe, because the claims are impossible, or internally contradictory. There just does not seem to be any way to present a coherent definition of “GOD.”

The first claim that many Christians make about their definition of God, is that (it’s almost always a) He is the Creator of all things. Even if there were some evidence that was true, it still doesn’t make the Creator, a “God”. Even if some entity caused it, it may have been accidental, and unintentional – or it may have been intentional, but irrelevant, like a young boy with an ant farm.

No way does the mere claim of a Creator, turn it into a God. A God wants something – both for us and from us. He would want to give us life, and a universe to exist in. He wants worship, obedience, belief and faith. He wants to give us morals, and rules to live by. A Creator wants and needs none of that.

In my opinion, Deism is the most useless, contradictory belief position. A Deist believes in a Creator, but does not believe in a personal God. A Deist believes in “The Watchmaker God,” an entity of some sort which produced our Universe, wound it up like a watch, with all its physical rules, and then just sits back and watches it – like the lad above, with the ant-farm, an uninvolved observer of His creation, whether unwilling or unable to affect us or our situations.

An invisible God is indistinguishable from a non-existent God. A ”Creator” which performs no miracles, who answers no prayers, who gives nothing to us, and asks nothing of us, quickly becomes indistinguishable from that non-existent God. Most Deists don’t believe in Heaven or Hell, salvation, or any sort of life after death. I’ve got a pet rock from the ’80s that can do that much. Any Theist who wants non-believers to accept claims of his particular pet Deity, had better be ready to offer more than a ‘Creator.’ He’ll need evidence of some sort, of supernatural involvement in the natural world.

I don’t know even how the supernatural could be viewed, recorded or measured, ‘naturally.’ Christians often ask Atheists what sort of evidence would convince them of the existence of a God. The short answer?? Empirical! The conversation will not even begin until they can present a verifiable, repeatable occurrence that can not be shown to have a natural explanation.