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God, This Movie is Awfully Damned Trite!
The most fascinating thing about the movie ‘God is Not Dead’ isn’t the conflict between atheism and Christianity; it’s the tension between narrative and argumentative styles of presentation. The...
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The Problem with Deepak.
I consider skepticism a way station on the way to a higher, more fulfilling kind of spirituality. Millions of people have walked away from organized religion to become more spiritual, not less. They...
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There are More Persons in this Conversation than are Dreamed of in Your...
No gods, but perhaps a holy sacrament! (Tom Yum Ghai) “I don’t believe in atheists.” That’s a phrase I’ve been seeing a lot lately. It passes for clever in apologetics blogs and it helps many a...
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When Arguendo Argues Itself Into a Somehow
Pop-apologists love to tell stories about how much atheists hate God. It’s a powerful claim, not because it’s accurate, but because it’s a bit like wishing us into the cornfields. All at once...
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“The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”…In Which I Read Snake Oil
I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t the fate of prominent atheists to end up with Christian apologists for spokesmen. Okay, I don’t literally believe in fate (either), but let’s just say the pattern is...
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The Proof of Burdens
Does God exist? In discussions between atheists and believers that question always seems to be on hold, because we seldom get past the other question, the one about who has the burden of proof in that...
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Good Without an Apology
Saw this in Cedar City this summer (I think Moni took the picture.) Atheists can’t provide a sound basis for their morality. …it’s the kinder gentler version of “atheists can’t be moral,” which is a...
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On Chick Tracts
I still remember the first time I encountered a Chick tract, but I can’t remember if it was the 4th or the 5th grade. I think I might have been hanging around after school for some reason. I do...
View ArticleFundamentalism by Proxy and the Guilting of the Godly
A general suspicion of religion comes to mind easily enough. Hell, even religious people frequently exhibit this suspicion (tempered as it is with whatever thoughts they’ve assembled into their own...
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When Good Gods Go Bad
The God of Chick Tracts always struck me as something of an asshole. It’s a common assumption in religious polemics at least, that you can’t really hate someone you don’t believe in. You see this...
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