CELEBRATING 100,000 PAGE VIEWS TODAY! (27 June 2013)

Congratulations to all of our loyal readers, authors, commenters and workers at Christadelphian Atheism!

After slow beginnings when we first started, our readership has rapidly accelerated until today we passed our 100,000th page-view some time this morning. (27 June 2013)

MR SCROOGE AT THE CHRISTADELPHIAN MAGAZINE OFFICE

 

Why is it that the editors of the Christadelphian magazine are so concerned about telling us how to behave, while they themselves seem to ignore the commandments of Christ?

Let me show you what we subscribers to the electronic version of The Christadelphian magazine get every month when we receive the downloadable version:

COMMENT OF THE WEEK - "CHRISTO LEGALISM v GRACE AND THE TRUTH"

Posted by Phil in our new Discussion Room - 20 June 2013

Editor's note: The views portrayed in this article do not represent the views of this website.

hello everyone,

i joined the old paths christadelphians in england in early 1980, and at the time was euphoric at being part of the only "true god community".

CHRISTADELPHIAN FIDEISM

Editor's Note:  

Fideism is an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and that faith is superior at determining truth. The term Fideist, (one who argues for Fideism is very rarely self-applied.

THE EVOLUTION OF CREATIONISM

By David R. Montgomery
Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle

For centuries, natural philosophers, their scientific successors, and theologians alike sought to explain the physical and natural world. The now common cultural narrative of perpetual conflict between science and religion simplifies the arguments and struggles of the past and overlooks cross-pollination between those who embraced faith and reason as the keys to understanding earth history.

SCIENCE AND RELIGION AREN'T FRIENDS

Written By Jerry Coyne

Atheist books such as The God Delusion and The End of Faith have, by exposing the dangers of faith and the lack of evidence for the God of Abraham, become best-sellers. Science nibbles at religion from the other end, relentlessly consuming divine explanations and replacing them with material ones.

EVIDENCE OF DRINKING WATER ON MARS

NASA scientists say their Opportunity Rover has made new discoveries about early water on Mars which may have been drinkable.

The unmanned solar-powered vehicle, described as "arthritic" as it nears 10 years since its launch, has just analysed what may be its oldest rock ever, known as Esperance 6.

QUESTIONS FROM A READER ABOUT CHRISTADELPHIAN UNBELIEF

"I have noticed you call yourself a Christadelphian Unbeliever what exactly does that mean?

You can be an Unbeliever or a Christadelphian but not both.

Are you an Unbeliever with the sole purpose of pointing out the flaws of my faith?

Please respond."

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LOSE YOUR CHRISTADELPHIAN FAITH?

This is the most frequent question that I am asked by Christadelphians:

"What is it like to lose your Christadelphian faith?"

Almost every week I get two or three asking that same question. Someone called me this evening and asked. I could tell that there was concern in their tone.

Evidence for bird evolution from China



What may be the earliest creature yet discovered on the evolutionary line to birds has been unearthed in China.

The fossil animal, which retains impressions of feathers, is dated to be about 160 million years old.

Scientists have given it the name Aurornis, which means "dawn bird".

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

Lasting effects has left a new comment on your post "How To Resign":

I'm pleased to have stumbled across your site, and have been reading it with great interest for the last couple of days.

   

CHRISTADELPHIANS - YOU MUST NOT VISIT THIS WEBSITE!

From this month's (June 2013) Christadelphian magazine "Letters to the Editor."

 

RECENT PICTURES FROM MARS DISPROVE YOUNG EARTH CREATIONIST/FLOOD GEOLOGY THEORY

The Shaler Rock Formation on Mars showing layers of sedimentary rock deposited by water.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

Theo P Hilus has left a new comment on your post "Why Dr John Thomas Was Wrong":

Hi, I am not a CD but appreciated reading about the plagiarism set out above as have been reading EUREKA and particularly the 'exposition' of Revelation 11. Having read sections of Horae Apocalypticae, I wondered about plagiarism. As noted above, I was struck by the minute detail about the French Revolution in page after page. My marginal note was 'so what?'

LETTERS FROM A SISTER WHO IS LOSING HER FAITH (PARTS 3 & 4)

Contributed by Sister Dawn     

   

LETTERS FROM A SISTER WHO IS LOSING HER FAITH (PARTS 1 & 2)

We are closely involved with many Christadelphians who are either losing or have lost their faith. Almost all of this discussion is confidential and never makes it onto the pages of this website.

However one brave sister has agreed to allow us to publish and we hope that readers will learn much from this series of letters that will be published here from time to time.

SPECIAL FEATURE: EVOLUTION IS TRUE!

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology - Carl Sagan

Sinornithosaurus

reptile/bird fossil

125 million years old

The ignorance of large sections (not all) of the Christadelphian community about Evolution is profound. It is wilful ignorance of a people who won't even look at the facts. They don't want to look at the facts because the facts clearly demonstrate that the first chapters of the Bible are Iron Age myth and nonsense. The facts destroy the very foundation of Christadelphian belief.

Instead most Christadelphians learn about Evolution by reading anti-Evolution booklets and watching anti-Evolution videos that are either decades out of date or are based on writings that are obsolete by a factor of many decades.

As a consequence they know almost nothing about one of the greatest scientific discoveries in human history and they don't understand that Evolution actually happened. Evolution is true and it exposes the writers of Genesis as mistaken. God did NOT create living species; they evolved from a common ancestor billions of years ago.

It has been said that there is more evidence to prove that Evolution happened than there is for any other established fact of human knowledge. We have the evidence of our own eyes in our own times.

Faith and Proof Don't Mix

Choose one or the other
- but you can't have both!

In Hebrews 11:1 the apostle Paul declares that faith is a belief that is not based on proof.

"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." (New Living Translation 2007)

In Ephesians 2:8 Paul teaches that it is this kind of faith that causes God's grace to save certain people.

"By grace are ye saved, through faith."

Paul did NOT say:

"By grace are ye saved through proof."

Follow Until You're Blind (A Poem)

Ex-Christadelphian Lunches and Social Afternoons - Melbourne and Sydney

The Conservatory Restaurant at Crown Casino Melbourne

We are arranging a lunch and social afternoon for Ex-Christadelphians at the Conservatory Restaurant at the Crown Entertainment Complex in the middle of Melbourne Australia. Cost $48.00 with everything included except drinks. Tea and Coffee is included.

It will be a weekday lunch. Or we can move it to a Saturday, with an increase in cost to $61.00. Parking at the complex is cheap and often free if you buy a lunch.

If you can't afford the cost, Ex-Christadelphians funds will confidentially subsidise it for you.

Sisters DON'T have to wear hats!!