Peter Enns describes the ways that seminaries hide ideas, information, and arguments that might disturb their students’ faiths:
How I Deconverted: I Made A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith
June 20, 2012 By 24 Comments
December 1997-May 1999 On December 8, 1997, my two closest philosophy major friends and I found ourselves utterly dismantling our Christian beliefs. As we went over all the possible reasons to doubt the faith, we found we simply did not have it in us to spin things favorably that night. We saw immense problems with rationally [...]
How I Deconverted, I Became A Christian Relativist
June 18, 2012 By 9 Comments
January 1997-December 1997: The first semester of my sophomore year I took predominantly theology and philosophy classes. Simultaneously I was taking both Church History I (covering church history from the time of the early church through the middle ages and stopping just before the Reformation) and a philosophy course on Augustine and Aquinas. I was [...]
What About Philosophical Christianity With Progressive Values? A Debate With Marta Layton
June 15, 2012 By 21 Comments
My next conversation partner describes herself thusly: “I am a doctoral student at Fordham University and also hold degrees from Cleveland State University (M.A., philosophy) and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (B.S., mathematics). Currently I’m researching Anselm’s ontological argument and whether the alleged ineffability of God defeats the argument. More generally, I’m interested in the problem [...]
"So You Say Christ's Love Is Unconditional and Non-Judgmental? Are You GAY?"
June 6, 2012 By 7 Comments
Jonathan Zeng was offered a job to teach music at a nondenominational Christian academy. But just hours later, he lost the job after one of his interviewers had found something fishy about the portion of his application in which he described his religious views. Zeng explains what set off the alarm bells:
A Sermon on Gay Marriage
May 26, 2012 By 3 Comments
Mr. Deity Meets Joseph Smith
May 2, 2012 By 7 Comments
In his newest Mr. Deity video, Brian Keith Dalton goes after his own former religion: Stick with the video after the credits for Brian’s account of what Dan Dennett is really like and to see a message to the Mr. Deity audience from numerous famous atheists (including our own PZ Myers) recorded at the Global [...]
Christian Patriarchy and Emotional Incest
April 4, 2012 By 17 Comments
Contra de Botton: Religions Are NOT To Credit With Universalistic Humanistic Values
March 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
Alain de Botton’s chapter on community in his book Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion is filled with half-baked thinking. After one-sidedly disparaging modern social life from numerous selective (and sometimes specious) angles, he goes on to model really effectively how not to try to learn from religion (Kindle Location 189):
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