The Handbook: Science- and History-Based Apologetics.
One popular form of apologetics is the attempt to demonstrate the veracity of the Bible. This is probably the easiest form of apologetics to dismiss, as well.
View ArticleThe Vast Comfort of Literalism.
Ever wonder how someone converts into fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity? Here's how I ended up there.
View ArticleGod’s Not Dead: Worst. Movie. Ever. Or at least it would be, if it were a movie.
Evangelicals are long accustomed to dwelling in a bubble of kiddie league of media and art--dumbed-down, overly-obvious, telegraphed, hamfisted, unoriginal, willfully-ignorant, uninspired,...
View ArticleBarna is Seeing Through a Mirror, Darkly.
We've been talking about the secularization of America lately. Barna's released a new study that confirms our suspicions and offers even more hope that things may be coming to a head soon; you just...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Christianities.
There really are two types of Christian in this world, and one of them hates the other with every fiber of its hate- and rage-filled little body.
View ArticleYouth Pastors: Harbingers of the End.
Tony Waller's story illustrates an overarching trend and a deeper problem in the religion: Christianity is failing its young people. To understand how someone like this could end up in a church...
View ArticleExcuses, Excuses: Two Ways Christians Delude Themselves about the Pew Study.
But what this study did do was to shine a line on two particular, self-servingly deluded claims made by the worst elements of Christianity: just how many members they have, and exactly how they view...
View ArticleThe SBC Still Doesn’t Get Why Nobody Likes Them Anymore.
Sometimes it's hard to believe that a culture can be this blind to its own faults and problems, and yet here we are at another installment of "Heads in the Sand: Southern Baptist Edition."
View ArticleThe Handbook: Videos For Ex-Christians (and Christians Teetering on the Edge).
Sometimes it's easier to pop on a video or video series than it is to crack open a book--and lately I've heard a few folks asking for suggestions along these lines. If you fall into that category of...
View ArticleNaturalism: Not Gross. Not Crass. And Not Negotiable.
Wow, do Christians tend to hate the idea of naturalism. One apologetics site even calls it, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, "a belief-system opposed to our god." Notice their flowchart, by...
View ArticleThe Titanic Band is Striking Up the Next Song.
Some churches like their lights to be super-bright; some prefer their churches to be dark and secluded-feeling. Some vote for the lights to start bright and then dim during the sermon; others prefer...
View ArticleExpertise, Apologetics, and David Marshall.
Recently I ran into this debate between David Marshall and Richard Carrier regarding whether or not belief in Christianity is "reasonable." It got me thinking about apologetics generally, and about...
View ArticleWhy Evangelicals Love Halloween.
For a group of people who genuinely believe that their god is the most powerful force in the universe, evangelical Christians as a group sure do shit their pants over the idea of Halloween. Today we're...
View ArticleAirline High School: Evangelicals’ Captive Audience.
Airline High School of Louisiana has a problem. Airline is a public school that has become embroiled in the latest example of right-wing Christian overreach disguised as "religious freedom." Today...
View ArticleA Manifesto and Declaration of Rights and Expectations.
Someone asked if I'd please post this part by itself and the idea seemed to be attractive to other readers, so here you go. I don't pretend that the following speaks for every non-Christian in the...
View ArticleThe Reason for the Season.
There is a "reason for the season." It's just not the one that Christians imagine.
View ArticleThe Broken System: When the Greater Good and Harm Don’t Exist.
Last time, we began talking about broken social systems--starting with the most dangerous question someone in one of these systems can possibly ask: Why is this system not working out in reality the...
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