David G. McAfee

Quotes

• “It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of ...”
• “Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muh...”
• “Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue t...”
• “Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, ch...”
• “If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to ma...”
• “The modern teachings of Christianity often preach of a peaceful, merciful, and loving God/Creator. Culturally, this conc...”
• “Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), ...”
• “Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a persona...”
• “If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — ...”
• “When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethica...”
• “The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stra...”
• “We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to i...”
• “Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extrem...”
• “It’s perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, ...”
• “What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in surviva...”
• “Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people,...”
• “Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be so...”
• “Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t ac...”
• “If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone...”
• “If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionar...”
• “Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and insp...”
• “There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and th...”
• “If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed acc...”
• “A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? ...”