Debunking Christianity

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...

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...

  Congratulations go out to all the authors in my anthology "God and Horrendous Suffering"!! That book is going to be a classic ...

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...

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...

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...

SHERM Journal just released a publication whose full correct title is, "Dataset Analysis of English Texts Written on the Topic of Jesus...

…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...

Any author or editor wants their work to be acknowledged as being good and helpful. But I never expected this from the most recent ...

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...

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...

So much of scripture undermines belief There are zealous Bible apologists—of the evangelical/fundamentalist variety—who try to make th...

Formulating and extensively defending the OTF is Loftus’ greatest contribution to the philosophy of religion and atheism. The basic idea i...

I had previously highly recommended an essay by Kris Komarnitsky in my chapter on the resurrection for The Case against Miracles . When ...

Christianity’s unfortunate embrace of incoherence Following the publication of my book,  Ten Tough Problems in Christian Thought and F...

Michael J. Alter is an independent researcher and author of The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry (2015), A Thematic Access-Oriented Bibliog...

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...

“…remarkably resistant to rational inquiry” There are some human tragedies that prove unsettling to even the most devout folks. Faith ...

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...

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...

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&...

A short letter packed with bad theology In pre-COVID days I occasionally saw Jehovah’s Witness missionaries standing by their literatu...

On Twitter: Ben Watkins: That any particular religious belief is geographically and temporally predictable based on local facts about cultur...

“In the minds of Christian apologists, atheists cannot rationally criticize the Christian god for immoral behavior if an objective moral sta...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Australian atheist Jim Jefferies, "Stand Up About Religion." this" is funny stuff!  

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...

Let me express my feelings about religion through George Carlin. I'm not saying he understood the various nuances of religion or the spe...

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...

Would your devout friends get passing grades? In 1927 Bertrand Russell delivered a lecture at the town hall in Battersea, England. The...

Here is another strong indicator that god's are created by human beings in different social cultures. Deities prefer different attire...

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 ...

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...

REASSESSING PAUL'S TIMELINE by Bart Willruth. Paul, the so-called founder of Christianity, may not have been who we think he was, or ...

In Roman late antiquity, we observe the steady eclipse of classical mythology, and all of its pluralism, with a singular enforced “orthodox”...

Kooks, quacks, lunatics, and con artists It has been my depressing experience, a couple of times in recent years, to attend services a...

Inquiring Minds Want to Know! As a Christian apologist, I can say that there is no intellectual objection to Christianity more daunting tha...