Untimely meditations

One man's thoughts, observations and rants

Tag: faith

  • Do you practice religion?

    Do you practice religion?

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    Joop Beris
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    Today’s writing prompt from WordPress asks: “Do you practice religion?” People who follow my blog will know that I have strong opinions about religion and religious beliefs. This writing prompt prompts me to dig up this subject again and share my opinion about it.

  • Rejecting Christianity

    Rejecting Christianity

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    There are several articles on my blog where I explain why I am an atheist. There are plenty of reasons I can give why I don’t believe in any gods. So far though, I haven’t explained the process that lead me to reject my Christian faith. A series of events that I could not reconcile…

  • Faith is not a pathway to truth

    Faith is not a pathway to truth

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    Joop Beris
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    When engaged in a discussion with religious people there often comes a point where your interlocutor says: “If you only had faith then you’d know my beliefs are true”. If they are Christian, they may quote Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Unfortunately for…

  • What’s wrong with Christianity?

    What’s wrong with Christianity?

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    Joop Beris
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    This post is a deeper dive into why I dislike many forms of organized religion, in this case Christianity. Now you may ask “What’s wrong with Christianity?” Many people don’t see the harm in it because in most Western nations, Christianity has been “domesticated”. It’s a watered down version of originally extreme beliefs, cherry-picked from…

  • The evidence that Jesus ever existed is weaker than you might think

    The evidence that Jesus ever existed is weaker than you might think

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    Joop Beris
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    Saying that Jesus maybe never existed, doesn’t go over well with most Christians. Many cling to the idea that the stories of the Gospels are true, eyewitness accounts of historical events. In scholarly circles, this view is fortunately much less accepted. How strong is the case for a historical Jesus really? Is he man or…

  • Grasping at straws

    Grasping at straws

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    Joop Beris
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    I am well aware that online news outlets use a method called “clickbaiting“, to encourage users to visit their site. Most of the time it is annoying, sometimes it leads to interesting articles but there are also times where it just goes too far. On Twitter, I saw a link to an article entitled “Newly…