Guest Post by Vincent Skolny
It sort of hit my wife and me suddenly late in our process of deconverting. Every Christian rejects something (or a lot of things) in the Bible. Particular things. Things about which the Bible is very clear. It turns out, there’s no other choice.
The Bible contains a lot of paradoxical statements, conflicting [...]
By Vorjack
This is a continuation of my review for Robert Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling.
Getting Testy about Testing
For an atheist who’s only experience with Christian home-schooling is the movie Jesus Camp, this book may come as a surprise. Many of the families are open minded [...]
By Vorjack
My mother recently admitted to me that if she had it to do over again, I would have been home-schooled. This was a shock, since my mother recently retired after 40 years of being a middle school science teacher. My mother has resisted all attempts to get her to teach outside her [...]
When I was a creationist, I thought life on the earth was “intelligently designed” by God. It was common sense — it looks designed, so it must be. I didn’t realize how quickly the argument degraded into a web of inconsistencies.
Consider a lion. A creationist looks at one and thinks, “What agility! What speed! What [...]
by VorJack
One of the standard arguments we hear for the historicity of the resurrection is the martyrdom of the apostles. Would the followers of Jesus really have sacrificed themselves for a lie?
The argument has a number of weaknesses. One of the greatest is the fact that all the details of this martyrdom comes [...]
I came across an article the other day from Dr. Aaron Menikoff, a Christian pastor, who asks if the Bible is reliable for “the truth” about Jesus Christ. That’s a great question — one I answer negatively — so I was curious about his perspective. His two main arguments are:
We should believe the Bible because [...]
I’ve been hearing the more radical conservatives complaining about a new “Obama internet kill switch” that is being concocted to destroy our freedoms. For instance, here’s what Norman E. Hooben (”Stormin’ Norman”) says about it:
There has been some publicity lately about the Dictator and his Czars taking over the control of the Internet…and believe it [...]
by VorJack
I’m reading Robert Jensen’s work All My Bones Shake for an eventual review here, but I’d like to discuss one concept now, since I don’t think a full discussion would fit in the review.
A Relabeling of the Unknown
Pullquote: God is what we call all those things about the universe that we don’t or can’t [...]
STM: I’ve only watched half so far, but my favorite quote- “I don’t really know what athiests... The Price of Atheism
arrakis: Interesting, because I just gave my mom my Xmas list. You’re An Atheist? You Get NOTHING for Christmas!
StareClips.com: I didn’t feel that the intention of anyone here was to convince me of anything. Also, I did not... Leviticus Also Said…
mahousniper: Since I’m too much of a lazy ass to go find this for myself, would you mind... Sunsara Taylor and the Ethical Society of Chicago
Tonya Doughty: Love that her response is they’ll be attending church every Sunday.... You’re An Atheist? You Get NOTHING for Christmas!
Ed: Damon, may I quote you? You said: “Many Atheists and Evolutionists BELIEVE that life is a... What can be asserted without proof…
Just the facts: Daniel: The info at the top of this discussion is pretty much straight from... Sunsara Taylor and the Ethical Society of Chicago
