Reading Time: 6 minutes Catholics even today can’t seem to give up the conceit that legendary Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) wasn’t persecuted by the Church in the 17th century for heretical religion but, instead, for bad science. As if. No matter that the Inquisition, the Church’s fearsome heresy-prosecuting arm in the Middle Ages, convicted the pioneering, cosmos-exploring scientist […]
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Will faith in a ‘divinely-inspired’ Constitution save us?
Reading Time: 3 minutes During a recent hearing of the House January 6 committee, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) stated that the U.S. Constitution is “divinely inspired.” She was referring to testimony from Rusty Bowers, the Speaker of Arizona’s House. In his testimony, Bowers said, “it is a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired.” Bowers was […]
Posted inEthics and Morality
Substitutionary Atonement for Decency
Reading Time: 8 minutes Toxic Christians have a lot of similar methods of easing their consciences and keeping themselves feeling smugly superior to others. In a lot of ways, we could even call their self-soothing methods substitutionary atonement for their real-life behavior. Today, let me show you what I mean.
Posted inHistory, Religion
Who Is Jesus and What Is Christianity Without the History and the Torah? (II)
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is the third in a series that you really need to read before engaging with this, otherwise you won’t have the first clue about which I am talking. See: Without the History, What are the Torah and Christian Bible? Who is Jesus and What Is Christianity Without the History and the Torah? These were […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Religion
Word Salad in the Name of Theology
Reading Time: 3 minutes As you will know, I have been running a series debunking the Exodus account and, in fact, this has now become a huge book project, co-authored with archaeologist Rebecca Bradley and with the foreword to be written by Assyriologist Dr Joshua Bowen. I am presently writing a chapter on the morality and theology of the […]
Posted inGeneral
Hell in the 4th Century: Things get unreal (Journey Into Hell #9)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Last time we visited Hell, we checked out what the second wave of Christians (2nd – very early 4th century) thought of the idea. And we saw these Christians slowly embellishing and extending the initial ‘lake of fire’ idea. Today, let’s see what the third wave of Christians in the 4th […]
Posted inReligion
The Two Factions Forming in the SBC Right Now
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, let me show you what these two factions are, the major players involved, and the group they’ve both chosen as their focus.
Posted inEthics and Morality, Religion
The Value of Theology (and Monks): Is It Morally Optimal?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes, I think too much. And here might be an example. Okay, so this might depend on your moral value system in the first place. Let’s take the faith vs works/deeds argument. Does faith in JesusGod get you into heaven (or simply please God), or is it the good actions that you do on Earth? Or […]
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A none who’s done grades a Biola apologetics lecture
Reading Time: 16 minutes Hi and welcome back! Today, we’ll be reviewing an apologetics lecture by J.P. Moreland. The reason this topic piqued my interest involves our past discussion of fundagelical mommy blogger Natasha Crain. She parlayed sudden popularity with her blog into an apologetics career. And she seems to have acquired some credentials with the help of an […]
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Christianity Is Elitist
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is one of those arguments that I have long maintained but have never got round to putting into writing. I can’t tell you the number of hours I have spent either talking directly to Christians, including very close friends in the Tippling Philosophers, or talking online or in writing my books about the nature […]