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Atheist David Silverman to Tim Tebow: Read Matthew 6:5
Why does it take an atheist to point out that Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, a “Christian,” in making flamboyant displays of public prayer, is actually not following Jesus’s explicit admonition in the Sermon on the Mount not to do … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, hypocrisy, Jesus, John Macarthur, Matthew, prayer, Sermon on the Mount, the Bible, tim tebow
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The Evolutionary Universe 1, Genesis Literalism 0
Question: Five days after the creation of the universe, were there whales? Answer: Obviously not. Why? Because the earth was not here five days after the universe began. And, for that matter, it was not here a billion years after the universe began. The earth … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, astronomy, atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, creation, evolution, Genesis, jerry coyne, John Macarthur, Richard Dawkins, theology
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The Evangelical (and Republican) Cult Explosion
Karl Giberson is an evangelical, a biologist, and an intellectual. And he’s fighting the “good fight” against that (larger) cultic part of evangelical subculture that is epistemically closed to secular scholarship. By calling the mass of evangelicalism cultic, I mean that it has created … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, America, apologetics, atheism, atheist, decline, doubt, God, Jesus, John Macarthur, psychology, social psychology
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Harold Camping’s Apocalypse Fail Watch: To Be Rapture Ready, Adrienne Martinez Gave up on Medical School!
Concerning radio evangelist Harold Camping’s apocalypse prediction fiasco, the Christian Post this afternoon reports on a specimen of the human wreckage. Here’s what the past year has been like for the Martinez family (after Adrienne and Joel came under the spell of the May 21, 2011 rapture … Continue reading
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Tagged cults, fraud, Harold Camping, hysteria, Jesus, John Macarthur, prophecy, prophecy fail, rapture ready, religion, Revelation, strange
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Was Jesus the Only One to Rise from the Dead on Easter Weekend?
Not if you believe Matthew 27:51-53. Have you ever noticed what it says? Immediately after Jesus’s death, Matthew has this very, very strange Night of the Living Dead story that he includes in his gospel. Matthew says that there was, immediately … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Easter, eggs, evidence, history, Jesus, John Macarthur, the resurrection
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End Times Hysteria Watch: Lyn Benedetto Allegedly Tried to Kill Her Daughters to Save Them from The Tribulation
The Antelope Valley Press, a northern Los Angeles County newspaper, had the following disturbing headline on Sunday, March 20, 2011: Mom feared ‘The Tribulation,’ cops say: Cut daughters’ throats, then her own. And the opening paragraph to the story was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apologetics, doomsday, End Times, fundamentalism, hysteria, John Macarthur, psychology, Revelation, social psychology, the Bible, the tribulation
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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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The Gay Marriage Trap?
Lawyer and philosopher Linda Hirshman thinks President Obama’s recent decision not to defend in court section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is political gold for the Democrats. Here’s the link to her interesting article at Salon: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/hirshman_obama_doma/index.html
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Tagged civil liberties, civil rights, equality, feminist, gay, gay marriage, homosexuality, John Macarthur, lesbian, marriage
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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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Richard Spiegel on Alvin Plantinga’s Sensus Divinitatis v. Richard Dawkins’s Sensus Bullshititatis
At the Christianity Today website recently, a philosopher by the name of Jim Spiegel (who writes well, I must say) makes the following claim: [There are] moral and psychological dimensions to atheism, ones we cannot ignore. No argument there. And Spiegel … Continue reading
Young Earth Creationism Watch: Albert Mohler v. BioLogos, Darrel Falk, and Bruce Waltke
With regard to the universe’s appearance of vast age, Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, offers this curious argument: The universe looks old because the creator made it whole. When he made Adam, Adam was … Continue reading
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Tagged albert mohler, apologetics, atheism, biologos, bruce waltke, Genesis, John Macarthur, science, young earth creationism
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Adam and Eve and White Racism
When white Evangelicals and fundamentalists show picture books to their children depicting Adam and Eve and all the early humans (such as Noah) as white, it is no different from Afrocentrists teaching their kids that all great Egyptians were black, and … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, afrocentrism, apologetics, God, history, Jesus, John Macarthur, Mesopotamia, psychology, racism, san bushmen
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Chris Hedges on the Tea Birchers
In a recent TruthDig essay, Chris Hedges (I think accurately) sizes up the Herderian Tea Party movement in America, and where it is moving us: There is a yearning by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Chris Hedges, conservatism, fascism, herderians, Jesus, Johann Gottfried Herder, John Macarthur, Sarah Palin, tea birchers, tea partiers
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Atheists and Agnostics Have a Faith Too (And It’s an Interesting One That Might Well Be True)
Question: If you are a Baptist, how do you ensure God’s election of you into his eternal love and heaven? Answer: Baptists tend to think that you have to say a sincere, and I would say magical, prayer with the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Baptist, beliefs, faith, God, hell, Jesus, John Macarthur, love
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The “It Gets Better Project” at YouTube
What would your older self say to your younger self, if you could? That’s the premise behind the It Gets Better Project: older gays and lesbians attempt to persuade gay and lesbian teens contemplating suicide to refrain and look with … Continue reading
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Tagged America, California, Colorado, don't ask don't tell, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, homosexuality, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, lesbian
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Glenn Beck says that the Jews killed Jesus
Isn’t Glenn Beck a lovely human being? Here what he said on Tuesday about Jesus and the Jews: Jesus conquered death. He wasn’t victimized. He chose to give his life. He did have a choice. If he was a victim, … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, apologetics, Easter, fascism, glenn beck, Jesus, John Macarthur, rush limbaugh, the Holocaust
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Is the Jesus of John’s Gospel Anti-Science?
In the Gospel of John, the apostle Thomas is famously (or rather, infamously) held up as a bad example to followers of Jesus, for he insisted upon evidence for Jesus’s resurrection. Look again at the famous passage from the Gospel of John … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, creationism, doubting thomas, evolution, fundamentalism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John Macarthur, science, the Bible, Thomas Paine
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Why I am not a young earth creationist
When it comes right down to it, the tensions between science and biblical literalism boil down to epistemology: how do we go about knowing things, and when is it reasonable to say, “I know something”? In this, the scientist, in his or … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Biblical literalism, creation, epistemology, evolution, evolution v. creation, Genesis, God, Jesus, John Macarthur, Richard Dawkins, the Bible
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Biologist Darrel Falk: Torn Between Two Lovers (Biblical Literalists and Science-Oriented Atheists)
At a recent posting on the BioLogos website, the president of the BioLogos Foundation, Darrel Falk—who is both a Christian and a biologist—explains why he is not a young earth creationist: [To be a young earth creationist] is to reject the richness of the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, biologos, creationism, darrel falk, evolution, grace to you, Hamlet, jerry coyne, John Macarthur, Richard Dawkins, science, young earth creationism
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Prometheus Unbound 