Reading Time: 14 minutes Without googling it, would you know what a CVDP is? Would you immediately know what the CMIP and AMIP are? They are, respectively, a tool for analyzing climatological models and the frameworks climatologists use to correlate, organize, and analyze massive amounts of oceanographic and atmospheric data in order to make sense of patterns in global climates. […]
Historicity of Jesus
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Was Jesus a Real Person?
Reading Time: 14 minutes Without googling it, would you know what a CVDP is? Would you immediately know what the CMIP and AMIP are? They are, respectively, a tool for analyzing climatological models and the frameworks climatologists use to correlate, organize, and analyze massive amounts of oceanographic and atmospheric data in order to make sense of patterns in global climates. […]
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A Christian vs. an Atheist: On God and Government, Part 7
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is part 7 of my “Think! Of God and Government” debate series with Christian author Andrew Murtagh. Read my latest post and Andrew’s reply. Hello Andrew, Well, I’m back! Since we’ve gone several rounds on the historical existence of Jesus already, I don’t want to prolong this, but I do have a few brief […]
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A Christian vs. an Atheist: On God and Government, Part 6
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is part 6 of my “Think! Of God and Government” debate series with Christian author Andrew Murtagh. Read my latest post and Andrew’s reply. Hi Andrew, So, in this post, I’d like to delve into some of the details you brought up last time that bear on the existence of a historical Jesus. This […]
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A Christian vs. an Atheist: On God and Government, Part 5
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is part 5 of my “Think! Of God and Government” debate series with Christian author Andrew Murtagh. Read my latest post and Andrew’s reply. Andrew, Thanks again for making the trip out to my neck of the woods the other week. I thought the turnout for our second live debate was excellent! I was […]
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Book Review: Doubting Jesus’ Resurrection
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Author’s Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) Summary: Hampered by its own extraordinarily modest ambitions. Doubting Jesus’ Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box?, by Kris D. Komarnitsky, is a narrowly focused, skeptical explanation of what could have inspired Christian belief in the […]
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The Language of God: Truth Seekers
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Language of God, Chapter 11 By B.J. Marshall Aside from summarizing the points he’s made in previous chapters, Collins uses this final chapter as his last chance to be a Christian apologist, but he surprisingly leaves the door open for other options. First, I feel compelled to highlight Collins’ honesty. He states that, after […]
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Book Review: The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Editor’s Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) Summary: Entertaining but plagued with inaccuracy. William Hopper’s The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions is intended as a satirical survey of the world’s major faiths, written from an atheist perspective with sarcasm, humor and irreverence aplenty. I […]
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Maybe Jesus Will Save Us After All
Reading Time: 8 minutes By Sarah Braasch I think I destroyed someone’s faith yesterday. Or, in truth, I think I may have struck the definitive blow. This doesn’t bother me. Unlike what many atheists espouse, for fear of being labeled evangelical proselytizers of disbelief, I actively seek the de-conversion of humanity. I actively seek to destroy religion. Not spirituality, […]
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Book Review: UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God
Reading Time: 3 minutes (Editor’s Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) If you’ve been around the atheist blogosphere, you probably know the name Christopher Hallquist, author of the blog The Uncredible Hallq (I’ve always wondered, does he get more skeptical when he gets angry?). Well, it seems he’s […]