Here's a small sampling of the responses I got when I asked non-Christians about being on the receiving end of the efforts of Christian evangelicals to convert them. Read more
Here's a small sampling of the responses I got when I asked non-Christians about being on the receiving end of the efforts of Christian evangelicals to convert them. Read more
It’s Friday afternoon. I’m sitting in this place. I am not drunk. But from the edge of my now slightly shimmering consciousness being drunk is very definitely beckoning to me, using as its soft siren the second half of the Hulk-sized mug o’ delicious Karl Strauss Oktoberfest beer insolently poised on my table not a wrist flick away. Whoa. Maybe I am drunk. That seemed like a pretty drunk sentence, didn’t it? (more…) Read more
Lately I have had (as have all of us) reason to wonder if there’s a solution to the problem of Hispanics illegally working and immigrating here. And after reading about and studying the matter, I’ve concluded that there simply isn’t. Here’s the way I’m understanding the matter. As ever, I welcome further enlightenment. We Americans like Hispanics working for as little money as they’re constrained to. We like anyone providing us our goods and services for as cheaply as possible.... Read more
So I’m in a Starbucks—where over the sound system they’re just now playing Sly Stone’s It’s a Family Affair, sung by (I think) Lou Rawls. BRB. I have to ask one of the Starbucks employees if they happen to have sharp knife in the back that I could borrow for just a moment to cut off my ears. Anyway, wanted to say real quick: What I care about is the truth. I don’t care what that truth looks like once... Read more
To those perhaps new to my work here: Christians: Don’t Too Readily Dismiss Atheists/Rationalists. (To name just one …. ) Read more
It’s been my experience that a great many atheists are keen on claiming that religion causes war. If people would only stop believing in God, goes the reasoning, there’d be much more peace and love in the world. I want much more peace and love in the world! So let’s carefully consider the idea that without religion that is just what we’d have. To begin, then, we must imagine that no people anywhere in the world have so much as... Read more
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Being honest is a good starting point in building trust. — Sarah Palin On a Barnes and Noble display table I yesterday came across a short stack of the paperback edition of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. (You know how at a Barnes and Noble, or at any big bookstore, they have all those books displayed on tables? No one who works at the store decided to put those books where they are. Book publishers pay a great deal of money... Read more
Without hell, what would be left of Christianity? Read more
One of the primary arguments atheists use in their case against the existence of God is that a compassionate, all-powerful God wouldn’t allow evil to exist in the world. The answer to that problem is simple: it’s people who do evil, not God. What people most often mean by the question, “Why does God allow evil to exist?” is “Why doesn’t God stop people from doing evil?” (more…) Read more
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