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What was in Jesus’ hand? Lessons on why you can’t take the Bible literally word for word
October 04th, 201112:55 AM ETAccording to a 2007 Gallup survey "About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word." Now let's think about this. Would you please open your Bibles to Revelation 1:14-16: *ahem* "His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like... -
The Edsel of Christianity?
August 17th, 201107:25 PM ETI have now completed Part II of The End of Christianity, a section which aimed through the essays of Hector Avalos, Jaco Gericke and Valerie Tarico, to establish on biblical grounds why Christianity needs to end. At this point I'd like to take a look back at the section by identifying a set of assumptions that appear to lie behind the three essays ... -
On the ethics of a Christian positively blurbing a book on atheism
July 20th, 201111:07 AM ETJohn W. Loftus' new book, The End of Christianity (Prometheus, 2011), a collection of essays by atheists, was just released a few weeks ago. It serves as a companion volume to last year's The Christian Delusion. And it wears its raison-d'etre on its sleeve. I intend to provide a review of the book in the weeks to come after I finish up some other o... -
What is the Greatest Enemy of Faith?
June 27th, 201112:56 PM ETThe other day I came across the following passage in a Peter Kreeft book: "Dullness, not doubt, is the strongest enemy of faith, just as indifference, not hate, is the strongest enemy of love." (Everything you ever wanted to know about Heaven, 20) That gets my vote for thought provoking quote of the day, and it rings true to my own experience. As... -
Consumerism as Religion
June 14th, 201107:09 PM ETTomorrow I fly to Rio de Janeiro to deliver an address on the topic of happpiness. As I have written the talk I have chosen to focus on two different, rival accounts of happiness: consumerism and Christian personalism. In preparing for my address I have been struck both by the overlap between consumerism and Christianity on key points as well as th... -
Can a Christian be a psychic?
May 12th, 201109:28 PM ETThe other day I started reading through Thomas Morris (ed.) God and the Philosophers (Oxford University Press, 1994), a collection of essays by leading Christian philosophers (or at least leading philosophers circa 1994). I didn't get far before I found myself surprised and intrigued. As I was reading through Morris' own autobiographical essay titl... -
Can atheists be trusted?
May 07th, 201110:27 AM ETLast week Stephen Maitzen, a very fine philosopher of religion, provided the links for two of his papers. The popular distillation of the argument is "Does God Destroy our Duty of Compassion?" (Free Inquiry, (Oct/Nov 2010), 52-53). That is the place if you want a quick overview of the argument. The second paper, ostentatiously titled "Ordinary Mora... -
Death to happy clappy Christianity: A Holy Saturday Meditation
April 23rd, 201110:02 AM ETHoly Saturday tends to get lost in the hubbub between Good Friday commemoration and Easter Sunday celebration. We spend Holy Saturday hiding chocolate eggs and hammering out the details for Easter Brunch. But when we do that we miss something important: we live on Holy Saturday. Theologians call it the "already/not yet" in which the kingdom of God ... -
Why the Outsider Test had better go big or go home
June 19th, 201009:58 AM ETI have been arguing that John Loftus's outsider test for faith (the claim that people who adhere to a religion are obliged to take a critical test in which they view their faith as an outsider, and if they do they will *see* that it is false) has some pretty serious weaknesses. Here is a recap as well as a note on why John's continued attempt ... -
The Tentative Apologist receives a stern reprimand
June 17th, 201012:30 AM ETEarly in the ongoing saga of my reviews of The Christian Delusion (that is, way back a week ago) I tackled the essay "The Cultures of Christianity" by David Eller. (See here). Dr. Eller has now responded. (See here). And, well, his response feels a bit like getting shushed by an aristocrat during a horse race at the Kentucky downs: in other wo...
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