Seidensticker Folly #47: Does God Need Praise?

Last updated on: August 31, 2020 at 10:19 am By Dave Armstrong

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got 1000+ posts here attacking your worldview. You just going to let that stand? Or could you present a helpful new perspective that I’ve ignored on one or two of those posts?” He also made a general statement on 6-22-17: “Christians’ arguments are easy to refute . . . I’ve heard the good stuff, and it’s not very good.” He added in the combox: “If I’ve misunderstood the Christian position or Christian... Read more

Seidensticker Folly #46: Ridiculous 5-Minute Exchange

Last updated on: August 30, 2020 at 2:49 pm By Dave Armstrong

Atheist Neil Carter Promptly Banned Me During the Discussion on His Blog Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got 1000+ posts here attacking your worldview. You just going to let that stand? Or could you present a helpful new perspective that I’ve ignored on one or two of those posts?” He also made a general statement on 6-22-17: “Christians’ arguments are easy to refute . . . I’ve heard the good stuff, and it’s not... Read more

Seidensticker Folly #45: “Zombies” & Clueless Atheists

Last updated on: August 29, 2020 at 10:37 am By Dave Armstrong

Atheist Neil Carter Joins in on the Silliness and Tomfoolery as Well Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got 1000+ posts here attacking your worldview. You just going to let that stand? Or could you present a helpful new perspective that I’ve ignored on one or two of those posts?” He also made a general statement on 6-22-17: “Christians’ arguments are easy to refute . . . I’ve heard the good stuff, and it’s not... Read more

Seidensticker Folly #44: Historic Christianity & Science

Last updated on: August 29, 2020 at 10:26 am By Dave Armstrong

Seidensticker Folly #43: Intellectual Cowardice & Hypocrisy

Last updated on: August 28, 2020 at 11:28 am By Dave Armstrong

Seidensticker Folly #42: Creation “Ex Nihilo”

Last updated on: September 2, 2020 at 4:43 pm By Dave Armstrong

God the Designer?: Dialogue with an Atheist

Last updated on: August 27, 2020 at 6:53 pm By Dave Armstrong

This discussion came about underneath my post, Seidensticker Folly #41: Argument from Design. gusbovona is a lifelong atheist. His words will be in blue. ***** First of all, science, as presently defined and self-understood, cannot state one way or another whether God (assuming His existence for the sake of argument) designed anything or not, since its subject and object of study is matter, and God (again by definition) is not material. 1. Bob’s statement, to which the quote above is a response, said... Read more

Dialogue on the Extent of Police Brutality

Last updated on: August 27, 2020 at 1:32 pm By Dave Armstrong

This was an exchange on Facebook with Bryson Townsend, whose words will be in blue. ***** Where are your posts about police brutality? Here: George Floyd: Atheist & Christian Agree; but What’s the Solution? (Christianity Asserts that Evil Begins in Corrupt Human Hearts, & Can Only be Vanquished by God’s Grace & Spiritual Revival) [6-4-20] I wrote in this paper: The charges against Chauvin now are second-degree murder without intent, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The other three officers who stood by are being charged... Read more

Question to Pro-Life Catholics Who Vote Pro-Abort

Last updated on: September 29, 2020 at 11:10 am By Dave Armstrong

The argument formerly in this article has been expanded and developed further in the paper, “KKK / Slavery Analogies & [“New”] Pro-Life Democrats” (9-28-20). *** Photo credit: Picture showing Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide. Image taken from Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story, written by Henry Morgenthau, Sr. and published in 1918. Original description: “THOSE WHO FELL BY THE WAYSIDE. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger... Read more

Ratzinger’s “Proportionate Reasons” & a Pro-Abort Vote

Last updated on: August 26, 2020 at 12:11 pm By Dave Armstrong

This fall, I voted Democrat, not merely with a clean conscience, but under the conviction that if I do not do so, I sin against Almighty God in failing to fight the gravest domestic threat to my country since the Civil War. (former Catholic apologist — he himself disavows the title — and now mostly left-wing political polemicist Mark Shea, 11-5-18) I will vote Biden with a clean conscience before Almighty God. (Mark Shea, 8-25-20) What did Cardinal Ratzinger (later,... Read more