November 21, 2010
This is the second in a series rebutting Ravi Zacharias’s 2004 book titled The Real Face of Atheism. It’s taken me a while to write this post partly because Zacharias gets so much wrong it’s infuriating. Either he is Read more…
November 8, 2010
Christianity is not alone among the religions of the world in placing an emphasis on faith. Faith is a highly regarded virtue. In fact, Rom 14:23 says that “whatever is not from faith is sin” and Heb 11:6 makes it Read more…
June 5, 2010
Ravi Zacharias, a Christian apologist, published a book in 2004 titled: The Real Face of Atheism. His basic premise is that atheism leads to despair and immorality while Christianity leads to hope and happiness: "Atheism is a world without God. Read more…
April 29, 2010
Dennett and LaScola have published a paper dealing with “Preachers Who Are Not Believers” (Evolutionary Psychology 2010. 8(1):122-150) which was originally posted on the Newsweek/Washington Post Website. These authors interviewed 5 pastors, 3 of which were liberal and 2 who Read more…
April 14, 2010
I try not to blog about politics, but the whole ordeal of passing Health Care Reform (HCR) in the U.S. stunned me. I can understand political fights and in-fighting. I can understand passionate debate over issues. I can even understand Read more…
March 25, 2010
While Confirmation Bias is a simple concept – we remember the “hits” and forget the “misses” – we have to be constantly vigilant to make sure we aren’t committing this error. This is especially difficult because most people place a Read more…
February 26, 2010
Dr Wendy Wood, Deborah Hall and David Matz conducted a meta-analysis of 55 independent studies conducted from 1964 to 2008 that looked at the relationship between religion and prejudice in the United States (Personality and Social Psychology Review 14(1): 126-139, Read more…
February 21, 2010
There is a reason why there is the old adage of never discussing politics and religion in polite company. They are both very similar in nature. Both have a strong “us” vs. “them” mentality – a mentality that must be Read more…
January 23, 2010
Is there media bias against Christianity? I don’t believe so. It takes some audacity to cry bias or persecution when 76% of people in the U.S. self identify as Christian (American Religious Identification Survey 2008). It takes even more moxie Read more…
January 14, 2010
Another new year has dawned so it’s hard not to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. The Bible says: Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I Read more…