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Steven Pinker Embraces Scientism
At The New Republic, Steven Pinker comes out swinging against those who direct the pejorative term “scientism” at atheists and agnostics. Pinker thinks that, just as gays turned tables on the bigots and came to embrace the pejorative term “queer,” atheists … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, evangelicalism, faith, postmodernism, reason, science, scientism, steven pinker, the Enlightenment
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Anti-Gay Marriage Watch: What’s Your Argument Again?
Notice that the below commercial in support of excluding gays from civil marriages in Minnesota actually offers no direct argumentative supports for the position at all. Watch: ___ In the intellectually bankrupt culture surrounding the anti-gay marriage movement, it’s taken to be acceptable to … Continue reading
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Tagged America, apologetics, equality, evangelicalism, gay marriage, gay rights, human rights, Minnesota, women's rights
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Critical Thinking as a Spiritual Path: Prepare Ye the Way of the Truth?
Yale Divinity School graduate, and former evangelical, Jonathan Dudley, explains, in a recent essay, how lay evangelicals tend to evaluate expert testimony (and so arrive at ridiculous conclusions): Lay evangelicals evaluate the arguments made by “experts” in a manner different from many non-evangelicals. … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, critical thinking, evangelicalism, Jesus, philosophy, truth
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John Ashcroft Watch: Will Michelle Bachmann Let the Mighty Eagle Soar Again?
Given Michelle Bachmann’s penchant for weird displays of public religiosity, do you suppose, were she to win the White House in 2012, that she might bring John Ashcroft back into the public eye, and into her cabinet? You remember George … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, evangelicalism, john ashcroft, let the mighty eagle soar, michelle bachmann, music, Republicans, rush limbaugh
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Josh McDowell Seems to Hate the Internet (Because It Breaks The Evangelical Apologist’s Monopoly over His Traditional Audience)
Addressing the International Christian Retail Show at the Colorado Convention Center recently, the widely known evangelical apologist and Noah’s ark hunter, Josh McDowell, made the following observation (presumably with his brows knitted together in grave concern): The Internet has given … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Christianity, critical thinking, evangelicalism, free thought, God, Jesus, Josh McDowell, reason
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Michelle Bachmann’s End Times Prayer
Ladies and gentlemen, the likely Republican nominee to be the next President of the United States: . At Salon, Alex Pareene asks a good question: If Michele Bachmann is a true Christian, she should rise bodily to Heaven during … Continue reading
Hell Apologists Watch: Albert Mohler wants people to awake “in the morning” and go “to sleep at night with the fear of hell never far from consciousness”
Here’s Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and evangelicalism’s leading “intellectual” (at least according to Time magazine), lamenting at his blog the fact that literal hell belief no long terrorizes the psyches of most people living in western countries: … Continue reading
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Tagged albert mohler, atheism, atheist, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, God, hell, Jesus, John Macarthur, psychology, the Bible
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YEC Watch: Are Albert Mohler’s YEC Views “Thought Crimes” Or Crimes Against Thought?
Albert Mohler, the man Time magazine once (weirdly) called America’s “reigning intellectual in the evangelical movement”, is a young earth creationist. And in a recent blog post he offered the following complaint against those who have concluded that the earth is old and plants and … Continue reading
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Tagged albert mohler, apologetics, atheism, evangelicalism, evolution, fundamentalism, God, Jesus, John Macarthur, science, the Bible, young earth creationism
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Turn or burn? Among the young, is Evangelical Christianity losing its hell bite?
Is human imaginative sympathy and love slowly conquering fundamentalist dogma? Perhaps, and it might be because the world is getting smaller, making it more difficult to live an insular existence and project dehumanizing traits onto others. This yesterday at NPR (in … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, cruelty, evangelicalism, God, Jesus, love, orthodoxy, reason, religion, the Bible, the politics of humanity
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I Break Their Nose?
Is that in the Sermon on the Mount—or Mein Kampf? Oops, the video doesn’t embed. Watch on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kayRXtITyw&feature=related
Who is Servetus the Evangelical? Alvin Plantinga?
We’re about to find out because, at his website, he has announced that he will drop his pseudonym, and reveal his true name, on Thursday, November 19, 2009. The rather well know biblical scholar, James Tabor, says of Servetus the Evangelical: … Continue reading
Can an Authoritarian Tree Produce Good Fruit? Thinking about John Calvin’s Geneva
After Disneyland, the happiest place on Earth? Here’s the historian Will Durant, from his book The Reformation (1957, pp. 473-474), on what John Calvin’s Geneva was like in the 16th century: Calvin himself, austere and severe, dreamed of a community … Continue reading
“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation” (Henry David Thoreau)
Escaping from freedom into the ecstasy of resignation and submission (1967): Or another way to look at it: “Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness” (R. Hall).
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Tagged 1960s, 1967, Buddhism, Charisma, confirmed desperation, Dostoevsky, evangelicalism, Henry David Thoreau, Hinduism, krishna, yoga, Zen
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Racism: Where Young Earth Creationism and Afrocentrism Meet
In the New York Times today is an article on the overwhelming evidence that our first human ancestors were from either southeast or southwest Africa, and they resembled the San Bushmen. In other words, they were black. More than a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam and Eve, afrocentrism, apologetics, Christianity, creationism, evangelicalism, evolution, Genesis, history, linguistics, religion, science
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Glenn Beck Friday: Creepy, Maudlin, Hysterical Populism on Display
The clip below is illustrative of how religious emotionalism is easily translated, by a charlatan like Glenn Beck, into political emotionalism. And notice the Nazi-like volkish essentialism at work here. Implied by Beck is the notion that all true Americans can tap their inner … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, evangelicalism, fascism, father caughlin, glenn beck, Jesus, populism, religion, Sean Hannity, social psychology
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Holocaust Denial v. Young Earth Creationism?
In terms of a perversity of soul, Holocaust denial says something far darker about a person than young earth creationism. Young earth creationism is incorrect about the age of the earth and the fixity of species, but it is not … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, evangelicalism, Genesis, Holocaust denial, philosophy, Politics, psychology, religion, sociology, young earth creationism
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If You Ever Hit Me, I Swear I’ll Leave You—Even If the BIBLE Does Not Give Me Permission To!
Where is that passage in the BIBLE that says, “Thou shalt not, under any circumstances, STRIKE or batter thy spouse. It is an abomination unto the Lord”? Ah, there isn’t one? Okay. But isn’t there a passage somewhere in the Bible … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, authoritarianism, Christianity, evangelicalism, family, feminism, Jesus, mars hill, religion, spousal abuse, submission, the Bible
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Prometheus Unbound 