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Can an atheist hate God?

June 28th, 201109:36 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

One of my readers, the irrepressible Beetle, thinks not. Beetle writes: "The fundy stereotype of the atheist has the latter hating God. But that is absurd of course, because one would not waste so much emotion on something which one did not believe in." But is it really absurd? Not according to protest atheism. This is a type of atheism which affi...
The Tentative Apologist digs into his fan mail ... and comes up with Dostoyevsky

August 18th, 201002:59 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

Okay, 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 ...
If there is no God then is everything permissible?

October 12th, 200911:33 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

The moral argument for God's existence finds one of its most historically influential treatments in Dostoyevsky's magisterial The Brothers Karamazov. Consider the following passage where Smerdyakov replies to Ivan (the atheist): I first thought that if I had some money I could start all over again, either in Moscow or, better still, abroad; I...

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