Another Episode of the Tough Questions Blog

Atheist Humor:

• Have you found Jesus?

Wacky Bible Stories:

• Shrek in the Bible?

Religious News:

• God DOES exist!!
• In God We Trust
• Bible Theme Park
• Big Mac Beats Moses

Tough Question:

• Many more to go!

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Comments and Questions #2

Thank you to everyone who has sent feedback, either through responses on the blog, or emails. I've received a lot of email lately, so it's time once again to respond to you directly.

Remember, you can leave comments below, or send feedback to: feedback@toughquestionspodcast.com

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Here Be Dragons - the Movie

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Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video
introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences
and is licensed for free distribution and public display.

Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons
offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of
pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered
by real science.

Here Be Dragons is written and presented by Brian Dunning, host and producer of the Skeptoid podcast, author of Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena, and Executive Producer of The Skeptologists.

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Tough Questions for Christians #21: God Hates Disabled People

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In this episode:

Atheist Humor:

• Sunday School

Religious News:

• Church Bans Disabled Child


• Failed Faith Healing


• Prayer at the Pumps


• Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Passed

Wacky Bible Stories:

• Failed Promises in the Desert

Tough Question #21

• God Hates Disabled People

Intro song: Hunting for Witches Fury 666 Remix by Bloc Party, and can be found on the Podsafe Music Network

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Comments and Questions from Fans

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I've received a lot of feedback from people who have found my podcast. Some people enjoy it, some people hate it, some people find it intriguing, others find it insulting.

I decided to take a few of the emails and comments I've received and make a whole episode of my responses to you.

I know in the past I have written out the words from the entire video, but I probably won't do that anymore. That takes too long and makes it harder for me to actually upload episodes.

Thanks to all those who have contacted me, your feedback is appreciated.

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Tough Questions for Christians #20: Chimera

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A "Chimera" is a mythological creature. It's part lion, part goat, part serpent, but when you're talking about biology it means something completely different, specifically human biology. And I'll get back to it in just a minute.

Most Christians believe that the soul is created at the point of conception. The moment the sperm his the egg, and a full strand of DNA, of human DNA, is created then it becomes a human soul which can be saved or damned.

Now back to the Chimera. A Chimera, when you're talking about human biology, is actually used to describe the very rare event where two fertilized eggs (which would normally grow into fraternal twins) actually meet in utero and merge to grow into one human.

They don't have multiple personality disorders, they don't have two minds or anything like that, but they do have two completely different strands of DNA that merged them into one human being. It is a very rare event, but it does happen.

Now that raises an interesting question. Because if the soul was created at fertilization, as soon as the eggs were fertilized, then you have two souls merge into one, and turn into just one human. Does that one person have two souls?

And what about identical twins? You have one soul created at fertilization, and then that egg splits in utero and grows into two human beings. Does each human have 1/2 a soul?

In the case of the Chimera, where does the second soul go? In the case of an identical twin, where does the 2nd soul come from?

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS #20
How many souls does a Chimera have, and what happens to the other soul?

Tough Question #19: Bumbling Idiot God?

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In my questions about Hell, I frequently get the response that Hell was not created for humans, Hell was created for the devil and his angels. It was never intended to hold mankind it was because of mankind’s sin that we ended up there.

And that’s a very good response, and could be a very convincing response if you didn’t claim that God was all-knowing, and all-powerful.

You see, if God was a, say bumbling idiot, and he created Hell to store the devil and his angels and didn’t realize that by making perfection the requirement to avoid Hell and then making humans imperfect would automatically condemn everyone to Hell, then you can kinda use the Bible as an example of God doing everything he can to fix his mistake and try to do something to save at least a few humans.

But, Christians don’t believe in a bumbling God. They believe in a God who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and never makes mistakes. Which means when he created Hell, he would’ve been doing so with the foreknowledge of every single soul who would’ve end up there, and he would have built it with the intent of holding those souls, and he would’ve designed it in the exact way he wanted those souls to experience eternity.

Which means God created Hell for the purpose of holding the majority of mankind and torturing them for eternity.

The Tough Question for you this time is: Which is it? Did God create Hell with the foreknowledge and the intent of burning most of humanity there, or is God a bumbling idiot who created Hell without realizing the consequences of his own actions.

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS #19

Did God create Hell with the foreknowledge and intent of torturing humanity? Or is he a bumbling idiot who could not foresee the consequences of his own actions?

originally posted on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/azatheist