Theology is a subject without an object

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.