January 11, 2010
Since we were talking about Lee Strobel’s Case for a Creator at our Meetup this a.m., I thought that it would be good to post this critique.
December 16, 2009
At this time of year the thoughts of many Christians turn to the baby Jesus or, maybe more realistically, to Santa Claus. Now many will claim that the one true god is the little baby in the manger, but by Read more…
December 5, 2009
“It is impossible to put Christ back in Christmas since he was never in it in the first place” Ted Armstrong, Christian Evangelist It’s that time of year again and the inevitable cry of “put Christ back into Christmas” starts Read more…
October 21, 2009
If religion is, as Scott Atran defines it, “passionate communal displays of costly commitments to counterintuitive worlds governed by supernatural agents” and thus requires a suspension of belief and logic called faith then why is it so popular? I don’t Read more…
October 2, 2009
Over the last few months I discussed 8 reasons that led me away from Christianity and toward Atheism: the conduct of “gods” people, the lack of perspicuity in scripture, “god” being “above” his law, the problem of evil in the Read more…
September 7, 2009
Many believers don’t think a lot about the worship of their god. It is something they do. Something that is expected. After all there are places of worship on what seems like every corner. Yet, if you stop to think Read more…
August 14, 2009
The standard fundamentalist view of Origins is that the universe was created by god in 6-24 hour days some 6000 to 10000 years ago exactly as depicted in the Biblical creation story. The standard explanation is that life is so Read more…
August 7, 2009
I’m not sure that anyone who did not come from a church that stressed the importance of the doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy realizes the impact this doctrine has on many believers. About 63% of Americans believe the Bible is literally Read more…
August 4, 2009
I don’t think there can be any doubt that the god of the Bible not only condones but commands Genocide in both the Old and New Testaments. The Genocide Convention 1948 defines Genocide as: Article II In the present Convention, Read more…
July 17, 2009
The problem of evil is an age old problem that has it’s own branch of theology reserved for it –Theodicy. The problem has probably been stated best in a quote usually attributed to Epicurus: “Is God willing to prevent evil, Read more…