What Does it Mean to Take God’s Name in Vain

As a Deist you might think I would respond to this with who cares, and on some levels you would be right, on others not so much.  Recently a person emailed me about a comment that I made, that comment was as follows, “Most Christians think saying God damn, is taking the lord’s name in …

Morality and the Code of Creation Part Two

In part one we examined what I call the natural innate morality that I do feel is written into our code as beings, assuming we are not damaged some how.  We can be damaged from birth, for instance a true psychopath has no empathy.   Before I continue in part one of this series commenter asked …

Time for Some Humor with Some Truth Built In

I found this old piece from master comedian George Carlin today and though with all the serious discussion here perhaps a bit of truth backed humor might be a good idea! If you are offended by adult language don’t watch this, if you are otherwise offended by this, sigh, why are you reading this website? …

Where Does Morality Come From

Recently in a discussion with a member of one of the revealed religions this was the question she asked.   The angle being that our morality itself comes from God and hence that proves the existence of God and hence it proved her version of God exists.  Now even if we take this view that “morality …

Who was Jesus – I Say Jesus was Robin Hood!

I was asked in a comment recently what the “Deist View of Jesus” is?  Like many questions I really can’t answer that for anyone but me.  Asking what a Deist thinks of Jesus is like asking what a scientist thinks about the origin of the universe.  The number of answers you get may be damn …