David Withun offers an interesting extended quote from James Turner’s book Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, addressing how Biblical literalism has served to undermine the authority of the Bible. Read more
David Withun offers an interesting extended quote from James Turner’s book Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, addressing how Biblical literalism has served to undermine the authority of the Bible. Read more
I never thought I’d say this, but America might be better off if it had more prominent Fascist and Communist parties. In most European countries there are more than two parties that have a serious chance of having someone represented to parliament or an equivalent representative body, and the prime minister is usually the representative of the party with the most seats. In most European countries, the major “conservative” and “liberal” parties are aware not only that they are to... Read more
Gearing up for the trip to Israel and blogging while there, I want to test the performance of the iPad WordPress app, which allows you to take a photo while blogging and insert it directly into the post. And so here is a shot from the Butler University campus… The only issue is that you need to set the screen brightness in such a way that you can still see what is on it in spite of the glare from... Read more
When a person’s moral conscience is bombarded with inanity, they lose their ability to discern when truly gross sin is in their midst. — Darrell in his post “Moral Confusion” on the blog Stuff Fundies Like Read more
The title of this post is not a complaint; it is merely an observation. No one confronts the representatives of another tradition with a contest to see which one’s deity will send fire from heaven as Elijah did. No Christian blogger claims that those who comment negatively will be struck with blindness for doing so, as apostles did. God is depicted in many parts of the Bible as knocking down city walls, parting seas and so on. Yet no Christian... Read more
My contribution to the Patheos symposium on progressive Christianity, entitled “Progressive Christianity and the Bible,” has been posted. Click through to read it, then come back here to discuss it, if you’re so inclined! Read more
Patheos is hosting a symposium on progressive Christianity. I’ll let you know when my contribution to it appears, but in the mean time, here is the link to the main page of the symposium so far. Read more
Here are some blogs and bloggers that discuss the subject: Jona Lendering, Jim Davila, Mike Heiser, Tom Verenna, and Jim West (twice). Read more
The world we live in is full of mysteries. When we envisage the self-replicating molecules that drive life on this planet, we wonder how they could have arisen, and we seek explanations. Likewise with the very fact than anything exists at all, we wonder why there is something rather than nothing. To say “God did it” is not an explanation. To suggest that an omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient being is somehow self explanatory and a way to eliminate mystery is misguided.... Read more
One reliable sign that a blogger is taking a stand for truth and open to following the evidence where it leads is when a negative post about them appears at Answers in Genesis. Joel Watts has now had this honor. Keep up the good work! Joel and Rod already have responses and comments posted. I love that AiG’s “refutation” of his point about unicorns is a link to their earlier article that inspired Joel to comment on the subject in... Read more
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