Reading Time: 2 minutes Hasn’t every third person you know read “Buddha’s Tooth” by now? The book is somewhat about a mislaid molar of the historical Buddha—a forgotten tooth, found and duly deemed a dentine relic, so much so that an actual Temple was built over its final resting place. The bones of St. Stephen (ample enough to reconstruct […]
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Censorship and book-burning
Reading Time: 9 minutes Asked last year during a Zoom talk I gave to a UK Humanist group what book, if any, had the greatest influence on my life, I got blank stares when I proffered the name of a publication none had ever heard of: Jacobsen’s Index to Objectionable Literature. By around 1970, Jacobsen’s comprised a list of […]
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Dan Barker has Written the Foreword to 30 Arguments
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am putting the finishing touches on my new book 30 Arguments Against the Existence of “God”, Divine Design, Heaven, Hell, and Satan. I have really enjoyed writing it and hope my beta readers (who have seen it in different layers of finishedness) have enjoyed it too. But what really pleases me is that Dan […]
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Why myths matter: A guest editorial by author David Fletcher
Reading Time: 5 minutes For a number of years, I co-hosted the award winning Reasonable Doubts podcast. On Reasonable Doubts, I did a regular segment called PolyAtheism wherein I explored some of the vast array of gods, goddesses and other mythological figures that have been worshipped, and/or feared throughout the history of the world. For nearly a decade now, […]
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David Madison on “The Resurrection”
Reading Time: 3 minutes David Madison (author of Ten Things Christians Wish Jesus Hadn’t Taught) has recently read my The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK] and has written a powerful post on it over at John Loftus’s Debunking Christianity. I have just started Madison’s book and am looking forward to romping through it. I am indebted […]
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The Strawman Ghosts of ‘The Great Divorce’
Reading Time: 12 minutes When Christians write parables or allegories, they never worry about their characters not acting like people at all. That’s not the point of the story. The story is meant only as a framework to use to defeat strawmen.
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How C.S. Lewis finished the hell puzzle in “The Great Divorce”
Reading Time: 10 minutes make informed decisions about their own fates. Not even his extra-imaginary imaginary god can make that happen for him.
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‘The Great Divorce’ Horrified Me (Review)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let’s review The Great Divorce — and get an idea of how its ideas have unfortunately infested Christians’ thinking today.
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Dr Nicholls on the Resurrection and Nativity
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was contacted recently by Dr DJ Nicholls, who had bought my books on the Resurrection and Nativity after reading my one on free will (one that I seriously need to rewrite and was on the cards for such this year before other projects jumped in!). He is a former evangelical who then went on […]
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Why I Am Atheist and Not a Theist
Reading Time: 5 minutes I wish people would read what I write and then interact with it, rather than just posting the same erroneous conclusions on my threads. It’s really frustrating, because I have debunked their position until they can show me I haven’t. Here is Person223’s latest rehash of the same tired old baloney: People do have the […]