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Nostradamus. Its author, John of Patmos, wrote it while living on an island famous for its hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Moderates often argue, "Well, the Bible's not supposed to be taken literally. The stories and rules are metaphorical." Really? If that's the case, why are you so sure the Bible's god isn't just as metaphorical as the stories about him? On what basis to you differentiate the literal from the metaphorical? It certainly isn't on a Biblical basis, since the Bible itself states that it should never be changed or edited, but adhered to literally and fully.

2) The Need for 'Faith'

Faith is the belief in that which isn't seen or otherwise sufficiently evidenced. Faith is presented by monotheistic religions as something virtuous, but this would mean that to refrain from thinking for yourself, and rather, to believe on no firmer foundation than wishful thinking and fear, as well as what the loudest voice in the room tells you, is the right way to go.

If this were the case, it wouldn't be right for human beings to take responsibility for their own lives and help others and themselves, something we do all the time by developing science and technology, and advancing human rights. We change our own cultures for the greater good - a good determined not by the contents of a holy book or by what "god thinks," but by a desire to alleviate suffering.

The funny thing with faith is that while people claim to believe only because they "feel" the truth of god's reality, this is impossible: if they had never been told that god is real by their leaders, families, and texts, they wouldn't believe it. Faith is belief not without any evidence, but without sufficient evidence. It is belief in an extraordinary proposition upon presentation, without any investigation. It is pure intellectual laziness. It could even be called "deliberate stupidity."

Why does god need people's faith, anyway? He showed himself using booming voices, messenger angels, a burning bush, and his own magical son-that-was-really-himself, in the Bible. Yet now - now that the world is full of objective tools of documentation like photography and video - god is nowhere to be seen. Why was he so obvious and visible when it was hard to prove his existence, yet now, when it would be so easy to show everyone that he's real, does he revert to only showing evidence of himself on the occasional grilled cheese sandwich?

3) Logical Impossibility

The problem of evil, first documented by the Greek philosopher Epicurus, takes

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