Reading Time: 6 minutes Throughout our history, but particularly since 2016, when Donald Trump first rode down that ill-fated escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential candidacy, it has grown ever clearer that Americans have a serious problem with atonement. We tend to run hellbent away from public accountability. It’s not just Trump, who is still trying mightily […]
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One cosmic incarnation or (very, very) many?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am in the throes of writing a book with Dr. Aaron Adair with the working title of Aliens And Religion: Where Two Worlds Collide—Assessing the Impact of Discovering Extra-Terrestrial Life on Religion and Theology. It’s turning out to be a very interesting writing process since the discipline of “astrotheology” (yes, that’s a thing) is […]
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Problems with Mark’s Crucifixion Death and Atonement
Reading Time: 3 minutes This question was given to me as a “Superchat” on my most recent YouTube appearance by SCHOLARvid, and was then refined and sent to me personally. it’s worth looking at: My understanding is that in Mark 15:34 God abandons Jesus before he dies on the cross. “At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud […]
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Carrier’s Mythicism Is a Win-Win
Reading Time: 11 minutes Jesus scholarship is often… “a disguise to do theology and call it history, do autobiography and call it biography, do Christian apologetics and call it academic scholarship.” John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography I’ve read a lot of Richard Carrier’s work, but very little on his case for the mythicism of Jesus. This is partly […]
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Criticizing the Logic of the Atonement (2 of 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes In which we consider a Christian defense of the idea that the sacrifice of Jesus made us right with God.
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A Religion Obsessed with Blood
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s amazing how different your upbringing can look to you after you get some distance from it. I grew up holding certain things as sacred which I now realize are nothing of the sort. Or perhaps I should say I see now that “sacredness” is a subjective value assigned to a thing by an individual […]
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A Bit of Easter Humour
Reading Time: < 1 minute The serious philosophical point to one of these is that Jesus’ sacrifice wasn’t all that: he sacrificed himself to himself to sit on his own right-hand side for eternity in heaven. Not all that, right? Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher
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Jesus’ Sacrifice Wasn’t All That
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a ubiquitous notion that Jesus sacrificed an awful lot for our sins. Putting Atonement to the side for the minute (after all, it’s a completely nonsensical ideal), let us consider the sacrifice that Jesus made. So what happened to Jesus at the end of his life? Well, we know that, unbeknownst to him […]
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November Ingersoll. Come Check Out the Great Man!
Reading Time: 5 minutes My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. To give respect to both men, I will be posting some Ingersoll delights once a month […]
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The Holy Trinity Is Incoherent #2 – Penal Substitution Theory
Reading Time: 5 minutes The other day, I wrote a piece on the general incoherence of the Holy Trinity from a logical and philosophical point of view, taking into account existence properties and the like. Some years back, on this topic when posting my original pieces, I even got to slugging it out with Andy Schueler against some Catholics […]