All posts, with the most recent one first:
- About this Blog
- Revisiting Hitchens’ challenge and the value of hope
- When Christians confuse an explanation with an argument
- Easter potpourri: a look at the crucifixion, resurrection, and much more
- Hitchens’ Challenge: How well has it stood up?
- Polygamy (and other outdated institutions that God approves of)
- The problem of polygamy: how to refurbish the Bible’s good reputation?
- More traits of a real man, according to the Bible
- What is a ‘real man,’ according to the Bible?
- Do science and faith share humility and service?
- Do science and faith share curiosity and a comprehensible Nature?
- Scientist argues that both science and faith play a role
- Damning Bible contradictions: 2 Ten Commandments, 2 creation stories, 2 Flood stories, and more
- Damning Bible contradictions: Who Would Jesus Convert? and more
- Damning Bible contradictions: faith and works, the End, and more
- Top 20 most damning Bible contradictions
- Antivax idiocy asks: ‘How many more kids have to die?’
- Guest article: The improbable vs. the impossible, or Will the real Jesus please rise up?
- Defending the Bible with undesigned coincidences
- The atheist has the moral foundation, not the Christian
- Prove that God exists with a public test
- Embarrassing misuse of the Criterion of Embarrassment
- What Christians won’t do to defend God’s Marvelous Plan®
- Christian defense of praise and worship: give praise to get presents
- Christian defense of praise and worship: fearing, fairness, and fighting back
- Christian defense of praise and worship: God’s greatness and our debasement
- Christian defense of praise and worship: God needs it, and the Bible commands it
- Christian defense of praise and worship: finding analogies in human relationships
- God as Donald Trump: Trying to make sense of praise and worship
- More counter-arguments from a Muslim apologist
- Response to ‘Nine Not-so-Good Reasons To Be an Atheist’
- How did the Star of Bethlehem move like Tinker Bell?
- Jupiter, Venus, Regulus, and Revelation: the fireworks of a real Star of Bethlehem?
- Critique of ‘The Star of Bethlehem’ video
- The Star of Bethlehem, a real event?
- New book: ‘2-Minute Christianity’!
- Can the Star of Bethlehem be scientifically verified?
- The atheist worldview beats the Christian worldview
- Downsides to the hope offered by Christianity: it makes God a jerk + infantilizes Christians
- Downsides to the hope offered by Christianity: anxiety
- Downsides to the hope offered by Christianity: complacency and magical thinking
- Downsides to the hope offered by Christianity: not seeing reality clearly
- Downsides to the hope offered by Christianity: believing because it’s consoling
- Why believe Jesus when legends develop in our own time?
- Christians changing the definition of “miracle”
- How to salvage claims of God’s capabilities? Change the definitions!
- More Puzzles
- Why accept evidence that didn’t convince Jesus’s contemporaries?
- Magic bones
- If prayer doesn’t work the way Jesus promised, make it more complicated
- Following Jesus’s rules isn’t so hard
- Conspiracy theories and poor thinking without facts, oh my!
- Christian rant against climate change is a paper tiger
- Yet more Bible reboots
- The Bible story reboots
- C. S. Lewis myths the point
- Movie Review: “God’s Not Dead 3”
- Why is God hidden?
- God would not have permitted an evolving Christianity
- Faith statements admit that Christianity can’t compete
- Christianity offers little more than deist arguments
- Christians lie to cover up God’s support for slavery
- How does Christianity decide the truth?
- Isaac Newton and the Bible
- Christianity is so confusing it needs encyclopedias of defenses
- The Bible on child sacrifice
- Not even CHRISTIANS take Christianity seriously
- Jesus as a child sacrifice?
- “Christianity answers life’s Big Questions!” is more irrelevant than wrong
- Is God hidden? Or is he absent?
- The universe doesn’t look designed for humans
- Why would Christianity need support from the government?
- Are Christians distinguishable from the rest of humanity?
- The anti-abortion SLED argument is no Rosebud
- After hearing Eric Metaxas, I despair
- Why does God need praise and worship?
- Christian blogger ties atheism to school shootings
- What is the pro-life goal?
- Twitter chatter after Roe
- Christian generosity after Roe?
- 25 reasons we don’t live in a world with a god
- Pro-life Christians as civil rights trailblazers?
- Do atheists just need a father figure?
- What if the pro-life argument were not religious?
- Heaven is hellish
- Christians used to believe their own story. Now, not so much
- The remarkable story of Christina Johansdotter
- God as an inept teacher: more problems with the logic of hell
- Arguments for God vs. why Christians ACTUALLY believe
- 9 responses to Christian hell
- The wisdom of Karl Marx applied to school shootings
- The Holy Spirit’s odd role in evangelism
- Faith statements suffocate academic freedom
- Harvard doesn’t require faith statements. What does that tell you?
- E Pluribus Unum: It’s time to bring back our motto
- William Lane Craig replies to my attack on faith statements
- Biblical slavery: turn that frown upside down!
- Biblical slavery: what does God really want?
- Biblical slavery: does regulation mean approval?
- Most US abortions are due to the pro-life movement