Religion has bequeathed humanity a massive gift, a massive inheritance, and an enormous legacy.

This is not a joke (well it is and it isn't). Right now an Australian and a South African man are claiming to be Jesus. That's code for them saying: I can save you. From what?

If the Earth was 10 000 years old or younger, you'd expect to see uniform landscapes. In other words, the erosion on mountains, canyons etc would look pretty similar.

One of the most distasteful aspects of the Christian cult is the almost breathless anticipation for the end of the world.

What is authentic about claiming to belong to a monotheistic faith (in other words, belief in one God) but then you bring in all your pseudo deities through the back door

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink in which he posits a thinking strategy based on minimal but crucial information. I think he called it thin-slicing.

As far as I understand, we should respect our Maker. So whatever it was that we came from (let's call that 'thing' God) we should worship and adore it. After all, if it wasn't for God, we wouldn't be here.

I am going to be constructive in writing this, and I ask that you try to be constructive in reading it.

"I always find it astonishing that two parties can have such diverse arguments about one set of facts,” the state prosecutor recently said.

The motive behind this writing is to provide the believer (probably a Christian) with some insight into the atheist journey beyond Christianity.

A man on the East Rand asked his three children - one of them his fifteen year old son - to go to their rooms. He then proceeded to cut off his wife's head.

Oscar Pistorius is a professing Evangelical Christian, who grew up in a Christian home.

Below is a short description of an incident that took place in Bredasdorp recently

A little girl called Lamia was brought to hospital with a crushed skull, broken back, broken ribs and left arm.

The psychology of the child sees things as artificialist, which is to say that everything is there for a reason, and the reason tends to be for the amusement, entertainment, interest or use of the child.

I became a born again Christian at the tender age of 7, and did all the Christian stuff, including baby baptism, water baptism and what not.

In this article I will demonstrate that Christians generally know nothing about their bible.

While Christians would not like to admit it, your beliefs are entirely emotional, in the same way that a small child feels either abandoned or uplifted thanks to its interactions with its makers.

First allow me to point out that if the dominant belief system in your culture or a community is a particular belief system, the odds are, you will also be indoctrinated in that belief system.

The evolution is an everyday reality. And evolution is a theory. A hypothesis. A concept. Many Christians dismiss it as no more than that.

Evolution is a theory. A hypothesis. A concept. Many Christians dismiss it as no more than that. Of course the reality of the hypothesis is self evident.

When I was a Christian, one of the things we were often called to do was a thing called 'witnessing'.

Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus [warning: spoilers] ends with the words, “It is New Year ’s Day, the year of our Lord 2094…and I’m still searching.”

Here's a list of bible verses that make one wonder just what sort of God Christians give their lives to in sincere patronage to what they call "Holy".

While lots of the Western world (and even the East) celebrate Xmas, the question possibly furthest from our minds is who exactly is X?

If God made us in his image, why did he include tonsils, the troublesome appendix and wisdom teeth?

We like to know that we know that we have all the answers, but here are a few questions I've found myself asking recently.

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has recently detected evidence of water vapour on a faraway Jupiter-sized planet 63 light years away. 63 may not sound very far.

Christians often try to make the argument that even if they are wrong, their beliefs are benign, and so what if we reach the end of our lives, at least we would have lived them well.

Christians often try to make the argument that even if they are wrong, their beliefs are benign, and so what if we reach the end of our lives, at least we would have lived them well.

Christians often try to make the argument that even if they are wrong, their beliefs are benign, and so what if we reach the end of our lives, at least we would have lived them well.

There's a lot of heated debate on this forum, which boils down to two groups, often, both of which claim to be right.

While there are plenty of arguments against the existence of God, one that I have never seen, as far as I can recall, is this one...

For me a major indictment is that the least educated, less happy, and less wealthy (individuals and entire nations) tend to be the most religious.

The origin story of popular myths and legends have a lot in common with the origin stories of saviours and comic book superheroes