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June 2018

June 12, 2018
The Bible uses names of people and places that archaeology has verified. Some Christians argue...
June 09, 2018
A fascinating example of how one’s environment programs how we see things demands that we...
June 07, 2018
Don’t you hate it when an everyday English word just doesn’t mean what you’d like...
June 05, 2018
Tracking animals is hard, but with much practice, a tracker can reliably find wild animals....
June 01, 2018
There’s a marvelously complicated tree of world religions that illustrates our evolving interpretations of the...

May 2018

May 30, 2018
Time for a mental break? Try out these puzzles.
May 28, 2018
Christian apologists want us to accept their evidence for the divinity of Jesus. But why...
May 25, 2018
Let’s wrap up an analysis of a Christian rejection of the Problem of Evil and...
May 23, 2018
More reasons we don’t live in a world with a god: because God’s existence is...
May 21, 2018
More reasons we don't live in a world with a god: because of Shermer’s Law...
May 18, 2018
Let’s use a Christian response to the Problem of Evil to illustrate a common frustration....
May 15, 2018
What’s impossible about following Jesus’s rules? Sure, they’re strict, but we only have to follow...
May 11, 2018
The Euthyphro dilemma (where does morality come from?) is a venerable problem for the Christian...
May 09, 2018
More reasons: because doctrinal statements exist + prayer doesn’t work.
May 07, 2018
More reasons: because Christian arguments are usually deist arguments + the Bible can’t get its...
May 04, 2018
A Christian apologist looks to the New Testament to try to reclaim God’s moral mandate...
May 02, 2018
What is women’s role in religion? How does it affect them, and how does it...

April 2018

April 30, 2018
In an ongoing effort to let the Bible speak for itself, consider a post by...
April 27, 2018
The Ten Commandments is a short list; and it doesn’t cover all of God’s shenanigans....
April 25, 2018
If God gave Man the Ten Commandments; you’d think that he’d be the one who...
April 23, 2018
I so often focus on Christians with whom I disagree that it’s nice to find...
April 21, 2018
You’d think that only fallible humans would have a hard time telling the truth. Perhaps...
April 19, 2018
The perfect message from a perfect god would look . . . well, it would...
April 17, 2018
The perfect message from a perfect god would look . . . well, it would...
April 12, 2018
Don’t think the Bible gets saner as you move from the Old Testament to the...
April 09, 2018
More reasons: because theism has no method for determining truth + the existence of natural...
April 07, 2018
Christians like to look down on Israel’s Old Testament neighbors. Of course God was justified...
April 05, 2018
God can do anything, which sounds great until you think about it. Contrast that with...
April 03, 2018
Let’s look at one of C. S. Lewis’s folksy ways of evaluating Christianity’s claims (from...

March 2018

March 30, 2018
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