Friday, July 22, 2011

The great blah in the sky .

I have some thing in my hand. It's not a spoon it's not a fork ,it's not a gun ,it's not an American flag. It's not a bible ,it's not paper or plastic and it's not any type of metal. I could go on for days telling you what isn't in my hand but that wouldn't tell you what is. Therefore you have no choice but to remain agnostic about what I mean when I say something is in my hand. So it goes with the word God! When I ask Christians/apologists/theologians what god is they say he is spirit, and when I ask what spirit is they say immaterial. Non existence is non material because non existence doesn't exist! They try to define god by saying god is good loving all powerful all knowing 3 persons in one ontology (being) ,but that doesnt tell me what they mean by being. Talking about character doesn't define existence. Since they can't tell me what god is,  I can't even asses the probability of their claim. In fact their claim is no more meaningful, logical, or explanatory than "blue sleeps faster than Wednesday". Their claim is no more sensical than saying " there is a great blah in the sky!".The Christian orthodox concept of deity isn't really a concept because it's not conceptual. Many say that it is possible to conceptualize something that doesn't exist, but they are wrong! They say that unicorns are conceptual, but the problem with their assertion is that horses exist and horns exist and all one is doing ,is taking two diferent concepts of two physical objects and calling them a unicorn. Every conceptualization is a mere compilations of physical objects. When we create a person in our minds all we are doing is taking some physical characteristics that we have seen in the past  and scrambling them all together to make a new arrangement. So even in that sense we are not conceptualizing anything non existent or immaterial. Everything we know and can conceptualize (with any level of certainty) is merely the result of sensory input into our physical brains. Saying something or someone is immaterial is meaningless to me because everything in my personal experience has only been physical (energy or matter).  Thanks for taking the time to read this post and may the blah be with you whatever that means lol .Please leave a comment. Sincerely James T Stillwell 3. 

Monday, July 18, 2011

OpenAirAtheist

Hi my name is James Theodore Stillwell and this is my first Blog, so please be understanding. I have a YouTube channel entitled OpenAirAtheist where I refute a plethora of religious claims and assertions and show that faith isn't a path to truth, but the surrender of it! The title is Open air atheist because I am a former Christian open air preacher. Back in May 2010 I found myself preaching in Huntington BH CA with Ray Comfort, and other well known open air preachers, and spoke with Kirk Cameron about TAG vs evidential apologetics. Life is strange and full of surprises, and for me the person I least expected to become,  is who I have become. I'm ok with that. It has been my experience that when someone is a sincere seeker of truth their position must change with the facts. For those who are interested in my former theology, when I was a Christian open air preacher I held to the London baptist confession of 1689 and shared almost the exact theology as C H Spurgeon and Dr James White. For those interested in my education on the subject of religion, I am self taught in Koine Greek, apologetics, philosophy, critical  reasoning, church history etc. In 2009 I open air preached in old town Sacramento CA, Marysville CA ,Yuba City Ca, Salem OR at the corner of Court Street and Liberty avenue with Paul Keizer (Reformed evangelist on YouTube and well-known street evangelist) Ryan Dozier and a few others. In May of 2010 I received a free schalorship to Ray Comfort's (living waters /Thewayofthemaster) Ambassadors Academy. Many like to ask about my de conversion and how I lost my faith and perhaps I will address this in detail in a future post but for now let me just say for the moment. I lost faith in faith!