Author: Joop Beris
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What’s wrong with Christianity?
This post is a deeper dive into why I dislike many forms of organized religion, in this case Christianity. Now you may ask “What’s wrong with Christianity?” Many people don’t see the harm in it because in most Western nations, Christianity has been “domesticated”. It’s a watered down version of originally extreme beliefs, cherry-picked from…
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9 logical reasons why there is no God
It is often said that it is impossible to prove that God doesn’t exist. After all, you can’t prove a negative, right? I think that both those statements aren’t necessarily true. I think it is possible to prove that God doesn’t exist (depending on how you define “God” ) and that it is possible to…
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The evidence that Jesus ever existed is weaker than you might think
Saying that Jesus maybe never existed, doesn’t go over well with most Christians. Many cling to the idea that the stories of the Gospels are true, eyewitness accounts of historical events. In scholarly circles, this view is fortunately much less accepted. How strong is the case for a historical Jesus really? Is he man or…
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First ever black hole image released
We’ve seen artist impressions of them for years in astronomy science books, they’ve been the stuff of science fiction films and novels but now we have our first ever image of a black hole! It looks both beautiful and scary…and very much like the predictions of Einstein.
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Inspiration
There are lots of things that inspire me. There’s inspiration in books and film, art and music. In people too, of course. The most inspirational people to me are people who dare to follow a dream, people who think in options and possibilities, not in risks or impossibilities.
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Where is the Nextcloud assistant?
I have always seen the benefits of the cloud. Having your data readily available wherever you are in the world, is extremely convenient. Similarly I’ve always been wary of the cloud. Putting your data in the hands of private businesses for free? There has to be a catch, right? And there is: they use it…