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TechnoratiPOST PUBLISHED INAugust, 2010
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"The Last Exorcism" meets The Tentative Apologist
August 29th, 201007:46 PM ETMy wife and I just got back from a romantic Sunday matinee showing of “The Last Exorcism”. For those unfamiliar with this new film, it adopts the popular faux documentary style by supposedly consisting of footage filmed for a documentary about a preacher named Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian). About the mockumentary style, it can be very e... -
Does the distribution of religious belief suggest a natural source?
August 27th, 201004:49 PM ETFriends, Romans, Countrypersons, You will realize by looking at the calendar that September is almost upon us. For people like myself who make our nickel in the classroom, this means a crunch time getting ready for a new semester. But even so, you will still see me struggling mightily to keep the storefront at the Tentative Apologist Department St... -
The Tentative Apologist's Christmas-in-August Variety Show
August 25th, 201011:21 AM ETAndy Williams has just finished singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” “And now,” The Tentative Apologist grins, “the most wonderful time of the show.” As he reclines in front of the fireplace wearing a bright red sweater with reindeer TA pulls out the ever present full-to-overflowing mailbag: First up TA pulls out a mi... -
Properly read, the Bible should make you … an atheist?
August 23rd, 201001:13 PM ETSo our review of The Christian Delusion continues in fits and starts (though mostly in fits). This time I set out to review John Loftus’s essay “What We’ve Got Here is a Failure to Communicate” (a phrase I first encountered not in “Cool Hand Luke” but in Guns ‘n’ Roses’ “Civil War”) but I only got as far as the second sentenc... -
The Bible and Metallica seeks to win over Susan Boyle fans (but not really)
August 20th, 201001:04 PM ETSo I was frying up a pan of bacon when some grease spilled and the stove-top caught fire. I doused it in a bucket of water and ran out the door because I was heading up to my friend's cabin for a couple days. I return last night and realize, much to my chagrin, that the whole kitchen is now alight. My bucket of water did little more than spread the... -
The Tentative Apologist digs into his fan mail ... and comes up with Dostoyevsky
August 18th, 201002:59 PM ETOkay, I guess I’ll have to scrap my short-lived one-article, one-post policy. Once again I’ll wade into the mail bag and answer some of the missives from my legions of adoring fans on the topic of Tobin’s abject failure to present anything like a case against biblical inspiration. Ken Pulliam, ever the model of cool scholarly engagement (in ... -
Inspiring thoughts on biblical inspiration and skeptical arguments
August 17th, 201010:47 AM ETIs my view of inspiration weak? AnAtheist.Net says that I have offered “a weak view of inspiration.” Why is it weak? AAN explains: “The more potential for human error that one allows under one's definition of inspiration the more incompetent God appears to be (given that God can supposedly do anything logically consistent and therefore does ... -
The Christian Delusion, Paul Tobin, reasoned faith and inspiration
August 15th, 201009:52 PM ETIt's been awhile since I blogged with any regularity and even longer since I last reviewed an essay from John Loftus' edited volume The Christian Delusion. But I'm going to finish what I started here, although I'm going to take the pace up a notch from earlier reviews. From now on each essay gets only one blog post. Sorry folks, but that's the way ... -
You're not as crazy as I think
August 12th, 201004:51 PM ETOkay, the apologetics manuscript I've been writing is almost done so I'm going to ease myself back into the blogosphere. And I'll start out with a little bit of self-promotion. My forthcoming book You're not as crazy as I think is now available for pre-order at Amazon and if you order a copy before midnight on August 31 you'll receive my undyi...
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