Or, my salute to fundamentalists by A. Uiet Bhor Part one Religions starts out as a series of theological and moral, and occasionally historical, "truths" that eventually become the faith's core doctrine. It is a haphazard process, with various ideologies competing either intellectually or physically, the end result is an amalgamation of sometimes contradictory ideas that are rationalised into one supreme voice of authority. After awhile the core doctrine becomes the status quo, which inevitably leads to people wishing to rebel against it. This leads to splinter cells, factions, denominations, and almost inevitably the evolution of the faith's principal orthodoxy. Sometimes the central authority capitulates and incorporates new ideas or elements as interpretations of the revealed "truth", as in the case of the pro Roman sympathies and pagan mystical elements in Christianity. Or sometimes counter doctrines are created to demonise and ostracise a...

by A. Uiet Bhor In the old days there were atheists aplenty, but they always seem to lose out against the theists, because they had nothing to offer, no hope, no immortality, no nice gods to worship. The problem was that, although these critical thinkers had through reason, philosophical analysis and just plain intelligence realised that the truth was not in religion, they didn't know where the truth was Many didn't know whether to trust the thoughts of the metaphysicians or the empirical thinkers, or simply practical observation, they had yet to formulate a formal scientific discipline, and many were bamboozled by the likes of Aristotle. It wasn't until Galileo that what would later become the scientific method began to take shape and finally we had a reliable way of getting to the truth independent of superstition, abstract thought or metaphysical meaninglessness. Since then, science has progressed to such an extent and allowed us to answer far more questions then...

Gene Cook, a Christian fundamentalist who runs the website UnchainedRadio.Com solicited one of our regular members and contributors, Zachary Moore , to a debate on his live webcast. Zach agreed and a recording of the debate is posted here on ExChristian.Net for any interested in listening: Zach Moore debates Gene Cook A week later Zach reappeared on the show. The second debate is available for download here: Zach Moore debates Gene Cook part 2 Both files are a little over 7 megabytes, so if you have a dial-up connection, it will take awhile to download. Below is the first discussion transcribed for those who would rather read, or would like to read along. This transcription was first made available on Zach's site. Thanks Zach! The Narrow Mind, 7/27/04 www.unchainedradio.com Gene: Tonight I have with me a guest, a man by the name of Zachary Moore, and Zachary is someone I met when I was surfing on the website ExChristian.net, I think that’s how you ...