Debunking Christianity

Daniel Mocsny wrote On the Incompatibility of answered prayers and Science If outside influences like prayer or meddling gods cannot be...

To protect thousands of different, conflicting Christian brands  Let’s look at four forbidden topics.   ONE   Each Christian denominati...

Richard Carrier establishes the fact that early Christians really believed their miracle stories , contrary to liberals who demythologize th...

Books that question the validity of Christian belief and the historicity of New Testament stories appear regularly these days and they ...

Without intending to! A member of the congregation is hospitalized with cancer. So fellow parishioners organize prayer marathons to plead wi...

John Smith posted this quote on his FB Page by Michael Ruse, atheist philosopher of biology: "Dawkins's book The God Delusion woul...

I received a message from Brian Holly on Facebook, asking me what I thought of two philosophical disproofs of God: I’d like to present you ...

My plan is to post something of interest every Monday morning. These posts will include excerpts from my books, submitted essays, posts made...

Why does their god play hide and seek? We can assume that some (many?) churchgoers read the gospels, but, it would appear, without cri...

I had said I would post on Mondays. I will do so! The posts just won't always be excerpts, past postings, or submitted essays. But for n...

Christian apologist and philosopher Paul K Moser is wrong, dead wrong, but at least he allows comments that disagree. I got to him though, w...

Almost every time I have engaged Dr. Paul K. Moser on Facebook, he has berated me as being below him. This time was different, probably bec...

The imagined, invented Jesus of the New Testament  The huge faith bureaucracy—aka the church—is guilty of many sins, but one of its maj...

There is no objective evidence for a god who did the miracles as reported in the Bible. Here is a good introduction to my book on it. Acco...

Every Monday morning I'm posting submitted essays, excerpts from my books, and some of the best posts of the past. This post today is on...

But a few Standards of Honesty are in order While I was in the process of writing my 2016 book,  Ten Tough Problems in Christian Belief...

Loki, the Norseman Trickster Chaos god Beginning today, and every Monday morning that follows, I'll be posting submitted essays, excerpt...

My plan is to post excerpts from my books on Mondays. This will include excerpts from all of the authors too. I must resist the urge to revi...

Cheap knockoff superstitions are taking over This really is a puzzle: why haven’t decent devout believers—by the millions—founded an or...

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2,000 years of momentum probably can’t save it Surely the clergy, those most in tune with God, must be the happiest people on the plane...

It can be interesting to try to work out the sources used by the New Testament authors. Here are some examples from both the author of Matth...

It’s a problem for the world as well When Christopher Hitchens died in December 2011, a volcano of Christian hate erupted. Devout folks...

I am a follower of John Smith at Facebook, who writes some very good provocative stuff. This FB post of his to the left provokes some though...

But wishful thinking and tortured logic can’t make it happen The high-profile, very wealthy televangelists—Kenneth Copeland and Joel ...

I'd love to find a planet where people agree on facts! As evidence that Earth is not that planet, a recent poll found that 63% of Republ...

Why would a good, wise god put up with it? The authors of the four New Testament gospels had a simple goal: to promote belief in the ...

As an example, suppose a street vendor offers to sell me a Rolex watch for $50. A check online shows Rolex watches selling for $12,000 and u...

In the first 2-3 centuries of the Christian religion, we observe astonishing creative diversity. As this essay reveals, this diversity chara...

Read it and weep—and get over it Here’s a book title that would dumbfound many devout churchgoers:  This Tragic Gospel: How John Corrup...

There are plenty of other mistakes as well If I were asked to debate a flat-earther, Holocaust denier, or someone who is convinced t...

I have some important things to do. So I'll be away for up to a month. You can continue to expect Dr. Madison's excellent Friday pos...

Sentiments about Jesus do not qualify According to the devout, evidence for their god is so obvious, “I feel Jesus in my heart!” “Just o...

I am pleased to announce that my new book,  Guessing About God , as of today, is available on Amazon, Kindle and paperback.     Paperba...

"Overall, I can conceive of a being than which is greater than the being in the Bible." --Jake Johnson on Facebook .

Not that any thread left to itself doesn't end up discussing anything and everything! ;-) I'm busy right now so don't send a...

What follows comes from an online book by Rob J. Hyndman, titled Unbelievable . He says of himself: "I was a Christian for nearly 30 ye...

We atheists are asked to imagine what would convince us that Christianity is true. The short answer is this: We need sufficient objective ev...

No surprise, given the mess their religion is in   1.       Christians can’t agree on who is right, what god wants   When Christians ar...

Is this an honor or disgrace? What is going on in his head? What is the message he's telling others? On his Facebook wall Albrecht wrote...

David Geisler: So John why did you say to me that it could be that God does exist? Me: Because nonsense might turn out to be right even ...

And it’s a go-to book for sustaining ignorance and intolerance  In my article here last week , I discussed six Bible texts that qualify...