It’s been two years since Harold Camping had his judgement day. He had spent years proclaiming that “the Bible guaranteed” that the Rapture would happen on May 21, 2011, to be followed by five months of terror on earth known…
Author: R. A. McGough
From Life-Long Skeptic to Gullible Young Earth Creationist?
I received this comment recently from one Pedro Cuestra who presents himself as a “life-long skeptic” who has “recently come into the knowledge of the God of the (entire) bible” and so is now a Young Earth Creationist. Dear Richard, I…
Answers for Amber on Why I Quit Christianity
Amber asked these questions in the comment stream under my post Explaining Myself where I had answered some questions relating to my Why I Quit Christianity. Hi Mr. Richard, First I just want to say thank you so much for the…
Posted in Losing My Religion, Why Christianity is False
Two Thousand Reasons to Believe Dr. Hugh Ross Might Not Be Entirely Credible
Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events-in detail-many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no…
Ending Desertification: Real hope for the future
This TED talk realy talks to me. From the description: Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it’s happening to about two-thirds of the world’s…
Posted in Global Warming, Politics
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
The idea of “open source” has transformed the world of software (e.g. Linux, Google Office) and information (e.g. Wikipedia). Now it’s time to transform the world in a very tangible way with open source hardware, where the rubber hits the…
Posted in Science
Why most Animals are not Philosophers: Fatal Flaws in Dr. Craig’s Moral Argument for God
A moral agent is defined as any being able to make moral judgments and be subject to them. Moral agents must possess two faculties. They must be self-aware else they could not make judgments with respect to their own actions…
2013 New Year Reflections: How Integrity led me into and drove me out of Evangelical Christianity
My meme for the New Year is “Let 2013 be the Year of Love and Unity.” I coined this meme at the end of my New Year’s Eve article On Integrity as the Highest Value where I discussed the fundamental…
Posted in Losing My Religion, Thinking Freely Tagged with: Bible Wheel, Ergun Caner, Fraud, Genocide, Harold Camping, Liberty University, Morality, Norman Geisler
On Integrity as the Highest Value
INTEGRITY: The state of being whole, undivided, perfect in composition; unity, wholeness, completeness. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Integrity is the grand unifying concept of all knowledge and philosophy. It is the way,…
Posted in Philosophy
The Logic of Love: A Natural Theory of Morality
All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. All you need is love (all together now) All you need is love (everybody) All you need is love,…
Richard Amiel McGough
I am educated in Mathematics and Physics and am currently a software engineer at 4QTRS in Yakima, Wa.
I created this site on February 11, 2001 to share the Bible Wheel which I discovered in 1995. For over a decade I was completely convinced it was proof of the divine inspiration of Scripture. In late 2009 my wife and I began questioning our beliefs and have since left the faith.Oddly enough, the evidence for the Bible Wheel withstood our skepticism though the Bible itself did not. What it means remains a mystery. The mystery has been resolved. See my post Debunking Myself: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
I created this site on February 11, 2001 to share the Bible Wheel which I discovered in 1995. For over a decade I was completely convinced it was proof of the divine inspiration of Scripture. In late 2009 my wife and I began questioning our beliefs and have since left the faith.
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