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an atheist s answer a small feature entitled my answer by billy graham appears in my local newspaper every day except sunday often these questions are immature or incredibly naive and billy graham offers bible based advice in response on this blog my goal is to offer one atheist s answers to these questions home about an atheist s answer a small feature entitled my answer by billy graham appears in my local newspaper every day except sunday often these questions are immature or incredibly naive and billy graham offers bible based advice in response on this blog my goal is to offer one atheist s answers to these questions feeds posts comments control freaks may 24 2010 by jeff hope i broke off from my fiance almost a year ago because i realized he was a very angry and controlling person demanding i do everything his way he s moved on to someone else but why do i find myself praying that god will bring us back together it doesn t make any sense d l a i see a pattern here the god of the bible is also very angry and controlling and demands that you do everything it s way i would advise you to seek therapy and try very hard to break your dependence on control freaks start with your ex fiance and your imaginary god billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in family oppression 8 comments irreligious perspective april 27 2010 by jeff hope bavin stach has started his own blog to continue to offer rational answers to questions posed to billy graham check out his blog irreligious perspective he just started it last week and there are currently 2 entries posted in freethought 1 comment just can t do it anymore april 7 2010 by jeff hope i ve tried several times to answer more of these questions in a rational manner but i can t bring myself to do it anymore i feel like i keep repeating myself therefore i will be taking an indefinite and maybe permanent break from this blog if anyone else wants to continue this idea by creating your own blog and posting answers you can add your url in a comment the most recent questions to billy graham can be found at http www billygraham org posted in uncategorized 3 comments attack march 23 2010 by jeff hope q i just saw a movie that was a clever attack on the christian faith in my opinion although it was only a story it claimed jesus was just another man and there isn t any reason to believe he was the son of god why would someone want to tear down people s faith j w a the christian faith is easily attacked because it is an obvious fiction that a huge number of people believe to be true jesus if he ever existed at all was a normal person and not any kind of god in his book godless dan barker had this to say about faith if the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith then you are admitting that the assertion can t be taken on its own merits if something is true we don t invoke faith instead we use reason to prove it faith is intellectual bankruptcy having faith in something that is unreasonable and cannot be proven is dangerous for the individual believer and our society at large faith in non existent gods has caused war oppression rape and tyranny we d all be much better off if the people of the world were to reject faith and embrace reason and compassion billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in rejecting belief 1 comment slowing down march 18 2010 by jeff hope over the last 6 months i ve answered 134 of these questions both the questions and billy graham s answers are as ridiculous as ever but the questions and my answers are starting to get too repetitious therefore i will be decreasing the frequency of my postings to about 2 per week this way i can hopefully focus on issues that i haven t addressed before i will continue to ping the atheist blogroll when i put up a new post thanks for reading jeff posted in uncategorized 1 comment rational uncle march 16 2010 by jeff hope q my uncle just laughs when i say something about the bible because he says it s full of errors and contradictions how can i answer him it s hard to talk to him about religion because he doesn t feel any need for god k f a before answering your uncle you should read the parts of the bible he is talking about there are lists here here here and here you will then see that your uncle is correct the bible is full of contradictions and errors as i wrote just last friday christians must choose which parts to follow and which parts to ignore i think that if you must make this decision the validity of all of the bible is highly suspect how could you know which parts are important and which are not the most logical explanation of the errors and contradictions in the bible is that it was written by many different people over a long period of time and had nothing to do with any gods billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in inconsistency rationality 1 comment singularity ii march 15 2010 by jeff hope q do you think computers will take over the world some day i admit i don t understand them very much although i m learning to use e mail which is pretty good for someone in her late 70s but they seem to have taken over so much of our lives that i worry about this mrs m b a i answered a very similar question last december q do you think computers might take over the world some day i like to read science fiction stories where they do this and computers are so powerful today that i wonder if it might actually happen l f a i have always been fascinated by this idea when i was young one of my favorite movies was colossus the forbin project in which the titular computer gained control of all of the world s nuclear weapons and set about to rule the world more recently much science fiction has been written about a technologocal singularity which is usually related to the development of self improving machine intelligences the idea is that these machines would continue to make themselves more intelligent and that pre singularity humans us now would not be able to predict or comprehend what life in the post singularity would be like i ve particularly enjoyed stories by vernor vinge and charles stross on this theme there are even some that think a technological singularity is likely to occur within the next century while i find these stories and novels immensely entertaining i don t know enough about computing or machine intelligence to know if these estimates are realistic in the meantime i will continue to seek out good science fiction and enjoy myself billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in fear 1 comment hypocrites march 12 2010 by jeff hope q if christianity is true then why are most of the so called christians i know hypocrites i d rather be a complete unbeliever which is what i am than someone who claims to be a christian but doesn t act like it at least i try to be a good person and they don t j h a i think that many self proclaimed christians are hypocrites precisely because christianity is not true the bible has so many inconsistencies and contradictions that its is logically impossible to live by all of the rules contained therein people who believe that the bible is the word of god must necessarily choose which parts to follow and which to ignore they do this even if they don t realize it therefore they may appear to act hypocritically because they are in fact ignoring certain parts of the bible the hypocrisy is most noticeable when people choose to interpret the bible choose which parts to follow and which to ignore in different ways i also think that some christians behave in deplorable ways because they believe that only faith not good works is required for salvation after death i ve addressed this topic before this picture is relevant to your final comment about trying to be a good person without religion billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in behavior inconsistency 1 comment grief march 11 2010 by jeff hope q my husband died several months ago of cancer and they have been the hardest months of my life people try to cheer me up by saying he s in heaven now and i believe it but it doesn t take away the hurt how can i get over this e w a i am sorry for you loss i have never suffered a loss of this magnitude so i don t think i can give you any good advice beyond suggesting that you seek out a grief counselor hopefully a secular one i am also sorry that you were tricked into believing that the teachings of the christian church are true while no one can definitively say whether there is some sort of afterlife or not we can with utmost confidence say that the christian god and heaven are not real the rational arguments in favor of this position are overwhelming the same can be said of all afterlives heavens paradises hells described by other religions such as islam judaism hinduism and baha i i think that belief in the afterlife is an immature reaction to the reality of death death of a loved one is very difficult to deal with believing that you will be reunited with that loved one in an afterlife may provide some comfort but it is a false comfort we should realize that our departed loved ones will live on in the memories of others and in the legacies they generated during their lives this is something real that we can take comfort in billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in heaven leave a comment pain relief march 10 2010 by jeff hope q i ve had severe back pain for over a year after two unsuccessful surgeries and now i m afraid i might be getting hooked on my pain medicine but i m afraid to tell my doctor for fear he ll take me off it i need your prayers j mcf a you should tell your doctor about this as soon as possible she should be able to tell you if you are actually exhibiting signs of addiction if you are your doctor should also be able to prescribe a different pain killer and help you recover from the addiction i hope you can find some relief from your pain soon billy graham s answer feel free to leave your answer to this question in the comments posted in rationality leave a comment older posts about search for blogroll atheist revolution blag hag friendly atheist pharyngula rationalists s blog why evolution is true sites exchristian net why atheism godlessgeeks com why won t god heal amputees archives may 2010 1 april 2010 2 march 2010 14 february 2010 20 january 2010 21 december 2009 23 november 2009 22 october 2009 24 september 2009 13 categories absurdity 20 behavior 12 compassion 5 family 19 fear 11 forgiveness 5 freethought 43 heaven 2 hell 2 inconsistency 8 irrationality 6 morality 15 oppression 4 peace 1 prayer 6 problem of evil 9 rationality 30 rejecting belief 27 uncategorized 3 rss feed rss posts rss comments email subscription enter your email address 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