Debunking Christianity
May 22, 2022
A Former Theology Professor Who Turned Atheist Now Claims to be an Agnostic
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I received an email from a retired theology professor friend of mine who had previously embraced atheism, but now claims to be an agnostic i...
May 21, 2022
Which Type of Anthologies Are Best?
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This Tweet is by The Non Alchemist : Enjoying this so far. Covers a lot of ground, with essays for and against different positions. I prefer...
Review of "God and and Horrendous Suffering"
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Congratulations go out to all the authors in my anthology "God and Horrendous Suffering"!! That book is going to be a classic ...
May 20, 2022
Maybe the Apostle Paul Could Talk You Out of Christianity
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So much that he wrote is just plain wrong How astounding is this: one of the founding heroes of the Christian faith wrote letters—he w...
May 18, 2022
Phil Bair On Atheism, Miracles, and Extraordinary Evidence
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No intellectual should expect that a good argument is one that convinces reasonable people. What we should expect is that an argument is a g...
Christianity in the Light of Science: Critically Examining the World's Largest Religion
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This is one of my favorite anthologies! People who say I repeat the same old arguments have not read my works! In this indispensable vo...
May 14, 2022
Just Released: "A Statistical Critique of the Minimal Facts Apologetics of Gary Habermas and Michael Licona." -- Written by Michael J. Alter and Darren M. Slade
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SHERM Journal just released a publication whose full correct title is, "Dataset Analysis of English Texts Written on the Topic of Jesus...
May 13, 2022
Christian “Truth” in Shreds: Epic Takedown Number 7
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…god really isn’t all that great Oft-repeated items from childhood stick in the mind. Our mealtime grace was “God is good, God is great, th...
May 11, 2022
I didn’t expect this!
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Any author or editor wants their work to be acknowledged as being good and helpful. But I never expected this from the most recent ...
May 10, 2022
Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails
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Anthologies are not easy to organize. Contributors have to be recruited, and they may not all be available at the time you need them. Schola...
May 08, 2022
Bill Burr Speaks the Truth About Religion
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Sound familiar? This video has been watched 2.6 million times. Burr is reaching millions more people than I could hope to do. Here is a snip...
May 06, 2022
Bible Study to Help You Get Over Christianity
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So much of scripture undermines belief There are zealous Bible apologists—of the evangelical/fundamentalist variety—who try to make th...
May 05, 2022
The Outsider Test for Faith
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Formulating and extensively defending the OTF is Loftus’ greatest contribution to the philosophy of religion and atheism. The basic idea i...
April 30, 2022
“The Rationalization Hypothesis: Is a Vision of Jesus Necessary for the Rise of the Resurrection Belief?” — by Kris Komarnitsky
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I had previously highly recommended an essay by Kris Komarnitsky in my chapter on the resurrection for The Case against Miracles . When ...
April 29, 2022
Arguments Against God: 10, 20, 30, 50, and Counting!
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Christianity’s unfortunate embrace of incoherence Following the publication of my book, Ten Tough Problems in Christian Thought and F...
April 27, 2022
Follow the Money Trail: Faith-Based Education and Publishing in Apologetics, by Michael J. Alter
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Michael J. Alter is an independent researcher and author of The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry (2015), A Thematic Access-Oriented Bibliog...
April 26, 2022
Recent Trends in Apologetics, Part 3
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To read Part 2 in this three part series click here . From the outset I should say that a great many Christian theologians don't t...
April 22, 2022
Holding On to a Horrible God
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“…remarkably resistant to rational inquiry” There are some human tragedies that prove unsettling to even the most devout folks. Faith ...
April 20, 2022
Recent Trends in Christian Apologetics, Part 2
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To read Part 1 in this three part series click here . Now on with the show. I'm going to begin at the beginning, what's consider...
Jim Jefferies - God is drunk at a party
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April 15, 2022
Maybe Jesus Himself Could Talk You Out of Christianity
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There’s so much he shouldn’t have said! A few years ago I asked a prominent Italian journalist: “Can it possibly be true that the Vati...
April 12, 2022
Recent Trends in Christian Apologetics, Part 1
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I'm going to revisit this topic for a Part 2. I already have a draft to post. Help me out. What are some trends in apologetics that you&...
April 08, 2022
I Got a Letter from a Jehovah’s Witness!
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A short letter packed with bad theology In pre-COVID days I occasionally saw Jehovah’s Witness missionaries standing by their literatu...
April 05, 2022
An Outsider Test for Polytheism
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On Twitter: Ben Watkins: That any particular religious belief is geographically and temporally predictable based on local facts about cultur...
April 04, 2022
Can Atheists Criticize God on Moral Grounds?
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“In the minds of Christian apologists, atheists cannot rationally criticize the Christian god for immoral behavior if an objective moral sta...
April 01, 2022
Christian Dependence on Propaganda Fantasy Literature
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Other religions make the same mistake It would be hard to name a book that has been hyped more than the Bible. During the last couple ...
March 28, 2022
The Problem of Evil and Moral Choice
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Lately, there've been quite a few discussions about morality in the comments sections. With that in mind, I thought I'd re-post one ...
March 27, 2022
On The Fundamental Objection to the OTF
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[Republished post from 3/03/ 2012] In a very well-written comment EricRC, a Ph.D. student in philosophy with promise, sums up what he calls ...
Jim Jefferies, "Stand Up About Religion"
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Australian atheist Jim Jefferies, "Stand Up About Religion." this" is funny stuff!
March 25, 2022
Christians, Please Learn These Two Words!
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To understand why the faith is in great jeopardy “How do you know your religion is the right one?” It’s not hard to guess what kind of...
March 24, 2022
George Carlin Expresses How I Feel About Religion
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Let me express my feelings about religion through George Carlin. I'm not saying he understood the various nuances of religion or the spe...
March 22, 2022
Does The Outsider Test for Faith Unfairly Target Religion?
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Here is the final section from chapter 8 of my book The Outsider Test for Faith (pp. 169-170). I summarize what is wrong with objections th...
March 18, 2022
Pop Quiz for Christians, Number 2
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Would your devout friends get passing grades? In 1927 Bertrand Russell delivered a lecture at the town hall in Battersea, England. The...
March 16, 2022
The Gods Even Prefer Different Hats!
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Here is another strong indicator that god's are created by human beings in different social cultures. Deities prefer different attire...
March 12, 2022
PART 2: REASSESSING PAUL'S TIMELINE by Bart Willruth
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If Part I is correct, that Paul lived and wrote in the 1st century BCE, the implications are immense. [For Part 1 see Tag "Reassessing ...
March 11, 2022
Rampant Idiocy in Christian Belief
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And now we have a handy guidebook! In recent days, Pat Robertson came out of the woodwork—or rather, out of retirement at 91—to explai...
March 10, 2022
Reassessing Paul's Timeline by Bart Willruth, Part 1
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REASSESSING PAUL'S TIMELINE by Bart Willruth. Paul, the so-called founder of Christianity, may not have been who we think he was, or ...
March 07, 2022
Faith is Unscientific So it Justifies Believing Without Evidence
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March 05, 2022
Biblical Fideism and the Demise of Modern Christianity
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In Roman late antiquity, we observe the steady eclipse of classical mythology, and all of its pluralism, with a singular enforced “orthodox”...
March 04, 2022
“The age of Jesus was not an age of critical reflection…”
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Kooks, quacks, lunatics, and con artists It has been my depressing experience, a couple of times in recent years, to attend services a...
February 27, 2022
Why Did Randal Rauser Recommend "God and Horrendous Suffering"?
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know! As a Christian apologist, I can say that there is no intellectual objection to Christianity more daunting tha...
February 26, 2022
God Gets a Big Fat F
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