Everything that is good in the Bible is good for some other reason than that God said so. Everything that is bad in the Bible can only be justified by claiming that God said so.
Where do you get your morality?
Usually I let people’s Facebook posts slide. I really do. But every once and a while one comes along that I just can’t stomach. Case in point: It’s hard to debate on Facebook where I know my family and friends who are Christians are watching. There just isn’t a nice way to tell people that […]
Free Will & Polio
Please understand that when you tell me that God doesn’t intervene to prevent suffering and death caused by disease or natural disasters because He wants us to have free will – what you’re actually saying is that I have less free will than someone with Polio. The country where I grew up in central Africa […]
Is this Moral?
If you want to get banned from a Christian debate forum, asking this question is apparently the easiest way to accomplish your goal. Even when said forum states in it’s guidelines that: Given the above, I was surprised to log into BibleForums only to find that I had been temporarily banned due to this […]
Theological Insulators
I was recently reading An Apologists’s Armoury: Christian debating tactics examined over on exchristian.net about some of the common ways people deflect uncomfortable questions and issues about faith. It struck me as I was reading that one tactic was left out: Insulation. Conservative Christianity has lost the internet debate. The experienced posters on most sites on […]
Bannerman
After deciding to re-visit some old haunts I tried on a new pseudonym, LatentAuthor, and headed out to see what was new at some forums again this week. It was interesting to see some familiar faces and familiar arguments, but sad to see the same result. Previously, I spent a great deal of time educating […]
The Question
“How did all of this happen? I mean. . .” One of my normally quiet student’s paused, searching for the words. “Can’t you just tell us everything?”
Divine Obtuseness: Why Defending God Sucks
Defending God sucks. I should know; I used to do it. There are just so many ridiculous things you have to explain and justify – the mental gymnastics involved are exhausting. Sometimes this manifests in hilarious ways such as the time someone tried to reconcile how there could have been no death before the Fall […]
How Evangelists Sound to Atheists
Seeing this video recently reminded me of something from growing up in Africa, it’s also hysterical. While there I attended a super Conservative Baptist boarding school and one of the extracurricular activities they offered was something called “Evangelism Explosion” or EE. In it we were trained on how to share the good news and then […]
Itinerant Lurker 