Reading Time: 4 minutes How many of your favorite Bible contradictions are in this list? This time, it’s two versions of Ten Commandments, creation, and Flood stories + resurrection and Jesus changing the plan.
Ten Commandments
Posted inPolitics
Stop the Christian nationalist coup: Make politicians pay for their Crusades
Reading Time: 4 minutes When state Senator Stanley “Jason” Rapert of Arkansas sponsored a Senate bill that called for the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds in Little Rock, he made it clear that no taxpayer funds would go toward the construction of the monument, for which he had established a crowd-funding campaign to meet […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, History
The Dependence of Biblical Law Codes on Ancient Near Eastern Law Codes
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am writing a book on the Exodus to build on both my previous two books (The Nativity: A Critical Examination [UK] and is The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]). The working title is The Exodus: A Critical Examination of the Moses Story, and here is the introduction to my chapter on the law codes of […]
Posted inThe Secular
Using Common Sense to Not See God
Reading Time: 5 minutes Bob Seidensticker, of Cross Examined here at Patheos, contributed a chapter to the recent book Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century. In his piece, he joins a few of us in the first section who look to philosophically dismantle the notion of God. The book is set into three sections. There is a great variety of […]
Posted inReligion
Put a Jesus On It! (The Jesus-ification of ALL THINGS)
Reading Time: 8 minutes I just had to laugh about this thing I noticed in a game I play–and now that I see what’s going on there, I can’t un-see it. Today, join me for the cosmic irony of Christians who have to Jesus-ify absolutely everything they encounter, even if it’s absolutely antithetical to their actual religion’s commands.
Posted inEthics and Morality, Evolution
A Dialogue on Morality: Response to Guy Walker (Pt 3)
Reading Time: 5 minutes As regular readers will know, I am engaged in a debate concerning morality and whether, as humans, we are exceptional in comparison to the animal world or whether morality can be fully explained in the context of biological and natural evolution, without invoking some other mysterious unknown such as God or similar. So far, I […]
Posted inThe Secular
10 Commandments (for Atheists)
Reading Time: 6 minutes There’s a new list of ten commandments. These are aimed at anyone, not just Christians. Let’s take a look and run down some Christian retorts.
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Church/State Separation—Where Is the Line?
Reading Time: 4 minutes What is the attraction of putting Christian propaganda on public property? in response to a six-ton Ten Commandments on government property, an atheist group put up its own monument. Who could be surprised when some Christians weren’t pleased?
Posted inEthics and Morality, Philosophy
“Very simple Johno. Thou shalt not kill.” – Er, not so simple.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was having another abortion debate on facebook, as happens far too often, mainly with a Catholic adversary. The thread was started with this meme: One of the side threads went like this: Him: Oh for the days when nuns wore habits and believed the ten commandments. Me: wow. Just wondering where in the ten commandments it mentioned […]
Posted inGeneral, News, Politics, Religion
Two Bad Arguments for Public Displays of the Ten Commandments
Reading Time: 6 minutes Earlier today, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of taking down a 6-foot-tall stone monument to the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Oklahoma state capitol. The reason? Because it violates their state’s constitution, which stipulates that it’s not okay to use state property to privilege one religion over another. In this […]