Saturday, August 6, 2011

FacePalm of the Day #116 - Debunking Christianity: Osama Bin Laden Was Probably a Good Man

John Loftus wrote the following quote several weeks ago. It's taken me a long time to post on this because I'm still shocked that a rational human being could actually think the following quote:

Osama Bin Laden was probably a good man; sincere, devout and God fearing. But all it takes to make good people do evil is religion. Keep that in mind. That is the lesson of his life. He was deluded in the same way as other believers. Some delusions cause more harm than others though, and he caused a great deal of it. The problem is he will never know he was deluded. Neither will any of the rest of them. What a waste of a life.


John Loftus and many atheists said much the same thing about Anders Behring Behring a few weeks ago. They blamed religion for the acts of Bin Landen and Behring. Truly facepalm worthy because the attitude is that Bin Laden would what have been a better person but his religion corrupted him as if every Muslim would do what he did. The same accusation was made about Behring. However no one can honestly say that Behring is a Christian. He has way more in common with John Loftus' fantasy Christianity than with any born-again Christian I have known. Again, David Wood more than proved this. Go back and watch his video if you missed it.




Debunking Christianity: Osama Bin Laden Was Probably a Good Man
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Contra Mundum: Consenting Adults and Harm | MandM

Dr Matt Flannagan has posted an article about the often touted argument that morality of an action should only be couched by the question of who that action harms and why. Unfortunately, people really think the graphic at the right is enough. Flannagan writes:

In debates over abortion, homosexual conduct, euthanasia, prostitution, drugs, those who call themselves liberals often mount the same basic argument; a socially or morally permissive stance is necessitated towards such practices because people have a right to choose do what ever they like with their own bodies.As John Stuart Mill put it in his book On Liberty:
“The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” [Emphasis added]
Here Mill articulates the harm principle.

Read Flannagan's article at the following link!

Contra Mundum: Consenting Adults and Harm | MandM
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Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Desperate and Dubious Muslim Polemical Methods

Ken has posted a great article summarizing quick and powerful rebuttals to Islamic Polemics. These are arguments that are often raised and it's good to have answers summarized and reference in a single place.

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Desperate and Dubious Muslim Polemical Methods
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Wireless Data From Every Light Bulb [Video]

New discoveries are being made all the time including in Information technology. Here is a very interesting video about what's coming in the future of information transmission.

What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more data than a cellular tower — and do it in a way that’s more efficient, secure and widespread.





Wireless Data From Every Light Bub [Video]
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