Satire: Bye-Bye Christianity Hello Atheism (Part two)


Those crazy Christians.

I cannot sit through another ridiculous worship song – simply repeating the same words over and over and over again. How can I continue to associate myself with a people who rely on faith in a god they have never seen? The same god who is allowing the evil from Syria to North Korea to Chicago. These same people who cannot decide whether they love Donald Trump or hate him. The same people who have more denominational sects than the number of likes on a Kim Kardashian Instagram photo. Christians are too fickle to trust and their god is a borderline tyrant. Those crazy, delusional Christians. I am Team Atheist now!

I know what you’re thinking. “How do you know the atheists are right?” Well, good question. Off the top of my head I can give 3 reasons:

1.  I could jump on the giant shipload of people with the plausible claim that the Bible was tampered with by the Roman emperor Constantine and/or by King James for their respective political reasons. Now to be fair to Christians lets admit that the Bible is a collection of documents written in 3 different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek), written on 3 different continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe), by 40 different authors over the span of 1500 years. Any tampering is extremely complex to pull off.

Not only that but if the Bible was tampered with then they did a terrible job. A good Bible tamper wanting to make Christianity more attractive would remove the part about John The Baptist getting his head chopped off. Also, why not omit the part about God lighting people on fire and killing evil rulers?

Strange thing is that all the older translations validate the accuracy of the King James version (because all translations are done by going back to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek manuscripts and creating the translation from there). In order for The Bible to be secretly doctored then the doctoring must be taken place multiple times over the span of 1500 years on 3 different continents in 3 different languages…all the while not getting caught. Did King James’ staff use their Delta Skymiles to secretly travel from Europe to Africa so quickly?

Ok even though the tampering argument doesn’t hold up I’m going keep faith that it is possible. Hence, Team Atheist!


2.  Many Christians today prefer to dodge “unnecessary” conflict by avoiding any discussion on whether Genesis is history or not. On the topic of the validity of the Creation Story, I’ll admit, being an engineer and an atheist simultanouesly would be a little tough for me to believe the Atheists. It’s a dilemma because there is contradiction there. Secular science claims that Genesis is a myth but then cannot explain how some things occurred otherwise.

For example, I have undergraduate/graduate studies in geotechnical engineering and coastal engineering – including erosion, scouring, and sediment transport. If you look at the remarkable layering of the Grand Canyon you will see that it is sharply cut out. Basic engineering law would say it is impossible for the Colorado River to have done this feat over the span of millions of years. Many geologists have finally abandoned this once agreed upon secular theory.

The soil layering upon the sides of the Grand Canyon would simply collapse as the soil and rocks slowly erode over time. Our beautiful world wonder would simply not be as majestic. The only way it is possible to explain is with the short time frame in the aftermath of The Great Flood in the Bible. But wait I keep forgetting, I’m on the Atheist Team now. Lets change the subject.



3.  Before I get to Number Three I must admit that I am now laughing in my head. What is funny is that if the God of the Bible is not real, if macro-evolution is true, if the Big Bang is true and we’re all chemical reactions…then everything I think and feel is only matter in motion. Therefore there is no way for me to develop the reasoning needed to conclude which of my competing thoughts are true and which are not.

You see, the Big Bang developed an instinct in me. If I have Instinct A vs Instinct B, how can there be a third Instinct that tells how to pick better the two options? My fellow Atheists, I’m on your team but that is not how things work. The Big Bang cannot create a conscience out of meaninglessness to dictate our thoughts. 


Not only that, but if we are meaningless matter floating in the air then we are predetermined in every way. Everything becomes subjective. The moment I make a truth claim (i.e. there is no God) then I am rising above the rules of subjectivity. Once this happens I directly violate that determinism. The entire thing is a made-up mind game that goes in an endless, backwards circle.

Ooooh forget it. Why am I trying to kid myself? I will quit being an Atheist now. At least I fought the good fight for a solid 2 hours. Being an atheist would be far too much mental denial for me. Atheism is an uncomfortable faith. Secularists assume the current scientific paradigm is true when historically we have always had scientific paradigms collapse. Science constantly changes on itself. But hey, maybe our known science today is 100% true for the first time in human history. That is a risky gamble to trust my life with though.

Ok I’m back on Team Christianity! You can call this sudden return an epiphany. Or…or maybe what it is is belief in something which my soul knew was true all along. Maybe this is Truth.

I’d rather go back to church and sing worship songs with my hands raised. As the great philosopher Brad Paisley once put it, “What if they’re wrong what if they’re right? Those Crazy Christians.”

On a similar note, there is an extremely great question we tend to ask – “How could an all-powerful, all-loving God allow evil and suffering in this world?” Well, that is a discussion for a latter post. What a great God we have who allows us to search the mysterious wonders of his ways. As Ecclesiastes 4 and Hebrews 11 put it: Mystery is a prerequisite to Faith. And without Faith it is impossible to please Him.



Cute Puppies May Make the Best Atheists!

I hate my roommate’s dog. My roommate loves his dog.

I hate way his dog charges the front door when I arrive home. I hate the way he watches my every movement as I eat. I hate the way that he follows me when I am cooking. I hate the sound that the hardwood floor makes as he gently walks around. I hate the way he stares at me as I walk up the stairs. While at work, I have daydreams of doing “things” to that dog.

My roommate adores his dog. He loves the way his dog joyfully greets him every time he comes home. He loves the way his dog easily follows instructions. He loves that his dog will relax with him on the couch and also go jogging with him. My roommate loves to tell people about his dog. Even if they are separated whenever my roommate is out of town, he is constantly worrying about his dog.

I do not necessarily hate the dog. However, I do not like him. However, my roommate does like him. Who is correct in their thinking? Him? Me? We have two opposite and competing solidarities. Who wins? I have a coworker that is from a country where they eat certain dogs in their soup. There are numerous other countries of the like. Are they more hateful than I am since there are killing dogs? Or are they better than me because it is purely acceptable in their country?

I have joking debates with my co-workers at least twice a week about the benefits, or lack thereof, of owning dogs. Usually I am alone against 20 other people. It is safe to say that I have yet to win one of those arguments. At least once a week my roommate will ask if his dog has won me over yet. Haha, he honestly believes that I am going to “cave in”. Maybe I was born during a full-moon and, therefore, have been genetically predisposed into disliking dogs because of werewolves.

Ohhh yes, the werewolf. Such a mythical, fairytale creature. Speaking of fairytales, here is the thing about atheism: There are similar age-old questions that many people have asked since the beginning – Is God good? If God is real, the why is there evil? Is Christianity good for the world? The believer would say that God is good and Christianity is good for the world. On the other hand, the atheist would say the opposite. Who is correct?

Lets presume that the atheist is correct. Lets say that because there is so much evil in the world, that there is no such thing as a god. With that in thought, if there were no god, then religion would also be bad since it is based off of a false notion. The collapse of atheism occurs because there is a problem with stating that there is evil in the world:

  • When you say that there is such a thing as EVIL, you are also assuming that there is such a thing as GOOD.
    • If you say that then you must also assume that there is a moral law/moral standard that differentiates between GOOD and EVIL.
      • Now if we admit there is a moral law, then there MUST be a moral law-giver who supplies this information … hence, God.

Therefore, if there is no God, then there is no moral law-giver. If there is no moral law-giver then there is no moral standard. If there is no moral standard then we have no way or reason to distinguish between good and evil. If we cannot differentiate between good and evil then we cannot even say that there is evil in the world. Atheism, in this argument, collapses on itself. #Fairytales. Yeah, fairytales.

A rebuttal is that humans are able to differentiate between good and evil due to human solidarity. From evolution, we have evolved into having an innate sense of “knowing” good and evil. The problem here is that if macroevolution is indeed real, then morality has to have evolved along with it. Our behavior as a people should be improving. This does not seem so as the 20th century was historically the bloodiest time in the history of the universe. Even today we have a plethora of technological advances and medical breakthroughs, but our selfishness allows for people to die from curable illnesses EVERYWHERE (violence of omission). Our greed has caused breakdowns in ALL aspects of our society. With technology we build more efficient warfare weapons. The 20th century alone drew more blood than the previous 19 centuries combined. Second and third-world country rebellions and causalities have become so cliche that our news media would rather talk about Justin Bieber’s latest excursion.

It can be said that we have evolved into knowing morality because we have learned to help one another in order to survive. This is a half-truth. We have also killed one another, conquered countries, and cheated on exams in order to progress together as human beings. Who can then say that one way is correct and one is not when they both achieve the same goal. Some people prefer to cheat on an exam rather than study for one. Some people do not like dogs staring while they eat. Where do we find objective standards? It will sound arrogant to some, but the source has always been God.

Romans 1:20 is going to claim that evidence of God’s existence can be seen in everywhere. It can be seen in the greatest, extraordinary things of this world. It can also be seen in the smallest particulars of this world. Are we opening our eyes to see the Truth? The same problem that was blinding our grandparents, Adam and Eve, still blinds us to this day. Luckily, Jesus left his throne and came to earth to die and resurrect for forgiveness of our sins. Luckily, for those who believe, the blinders have now been lifted (2 Corin. 3:14-18). We have freedom to see! Praise God, we can see!

Bye-Bye Christianity, Hello Atheism (Satire)










-Hmm touche, touché.







The Praise of Cute Babies, Ryan Gosling’s Abs, and Holiness





C.S. Lewis –





Let us adore Him. Let us praise Him.


Reflections on the Psalms. C.S. Lewis. 1958.

“The Bible is elegantly true”, proves Alexander The Great??

In a little over three weeks, we will be celebrating Alexander the Great’s 2368th birthday! There may be a few Facebook events popping up soon for celebrations. Alexander the Great lived the kind of eventful life that every young, rough, adolescent boy dreams of having. Wars, fighting, and winning those wars. Men admired him and neighboring countries feared him. Being taught for most of his childhood by the one and only Aristotle, Alexander definitely possessed an astutely educated mind.

In 336 BC, Alexander became king of Macedon. The rest of his life was then devoted to conquering land and gaining power…. as well as removing anything and anyone that came in his way. When it came to ego and basic morals, he immediately went bunkers – as history tells us that most tyrannical kings seem to do. Alex (can I call you Alex?) killed his family members, past allies, he conquered Greek city-states, Egypt, and most of Asia itself. If we are going to compare wit, leadership, and tactical brilliancy, then Alex laughs in the face of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and also makes Bin Laden seem as smart as Aaron Hernandez.

Lastly, there was one particular conquest that set Alex apart from any others before him. After defeating Persia, his new goal was to take control of the key port of Tyre. Now it just so happens that Tyre was located on an island approximately half a mile from the mainland and was heavily fortified with walls up to 150-ft high! In this day and age we have the Navy and Air Force that can easily get to an island, but they did not have this luxury. Not letting this stop them, Alex and his engineering buddies devised a plan to connect the mainland to the island. They realized the water was very shallow, being only 3 feet deep. So they collected rubble, old boulders, and other remaining ruins from the nearby “old city” of Tyre that was still connected to the mainland and threw it all in the water to form a small road. This, in modern-day engineering terms, is called a jetty. With this jetty created from pieces of an old ruined city, 30,000 army men were now to be able to travel over water to destroy the “newly” rebuilt Tyre. They used every scrap they could to build it until the “old” Tyre was completely empty. Alex did, indeed, get what he wanted. It was an epic battle.

They eventually conquered the “new” island of Tyre. However, why is this important? What is so awesome and incredibly mind-blowing about this, is that God foretells of this occurrence happening to Tyre about 257 years before this event took place.

In 590 BC, the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 26:1 to 28:19) foretold that King Nebuchadnezzar’s army would lay siege to Tyre; and that over time, other nations would also go to war against Tyre, continually scraping its foundations to bare rock and would lay its stones and debris in the midst of the sea. Ezekiel further prophesied that eventually Tyre would never be rebuilt again and that it would be a place for the “spreading of nets.”

When this scripture was written, Tyre was a thriving city in Asher. It was NOT an island at all. What Ezekiel said is that nations will come like waves (i.e. over time) and eventually wipe Tyre clean away. Three years later Nebuchadnezzar goes to war against Tyre…followed by the Chaldeans, the Assyrians, the Greeks, Saracens, and the Crusaders over the span of many many years. I would not be shocked if my grandparents went to war against Tyre as well. Apparently it was the cool thing to do. During all this time of losing wars, and before Alexander The Great came in, the few citizens left in Tyre we able to build an island off the mainland, the “new” Tyre. The “old” Tyre was still in Asher but was destroyed to rubble. It was not wiped clean yet as scripture said it would be. However, God said that “old” Tyre would eventually be wiped clean and thrown in the ocean. Sooooo, if this doesn’t happen, maybe God lied to us. Well, that’s where Alexander The Great came into play. One of the ways God’s sovereignty worked over Alex was to fulfill His own prophecy of finishing the complete dismantling of the “old” Tyre AND throwing its rubble and other pieces into the ocean. Which we just mentioned that Alex and his army did exactly that.

The prophecy came true to the last detail. As all of God’s prophecies seem to do. Boom Shocka Locka. God wins once again. Scuba divers today can dive along the jetty to see many of the granite columns Alexander’s army dumped into the sea. In all of history, Tyre is the only city to have all of its rubble cast into the sea. Even the prophetic detail of the fishing nets in those verses has proved accurate. For hundreds of years fishermen have spread out their nets to dry on those jetty rocks.

How awesome is it that we have a holy and loving God that says he’s going to do something and then he actually does it. God says let there be light and there is. He tells the earth to flood and it does. Jesus tells a dead man to wake up and the man does. I love our Father. He fills me with awe.

Psalm 115:3 ; Isaiah 43

Angels & Fairytales: Imagine a Box



Here comes the tricky curveball:















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