Last week, I found (via The Pugnacious Irishman) a post complaining about opponents of gay marriage having to deal with people thinking they’re bigots, then suggesting a strikingly dishonest way of dealing with this criticisms: start demanding definitions of every such word they use. This is dishonest because most people who don’t write dictionary entries [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The “evidence” for Jesus’ resurrection, debunked in one page
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 26, 2010
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When I saw this post at Daylight Atheism, I had the thought: “wouldn’t it be great to have a very short, all-purpose response to Christian claims about the alleged evidence for the resurrection?” Of course, I think my book fits the bill of being a one-stop resource, but you can’t convince everyone to read an [...]
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism & Bruce Almighty
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 16, 2010
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Most religious believers in the U.S. are not Rick Warren. Most religious believers in the U.S. are not William Lane Craig. In some ways, this is not obvious from the statistics: surveys regularly report things like “half of Americans are creationists,” or “half of Americans accept Biblical inerrancy.” But in spite of these statistics, the [...]
Philosophy of religion: which experts count?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 8, 2010
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The issue of expertise in philosophy of religion is something I’ve written about before. Over the past week, I had a series of “holy crap” moments related to this subject. The first was when Keith Parsons announced that he was going to quit writing about philosophy of religion and hand off his phil. religion courses [...]
Will sex be the death of Evangelicals?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 3, 2010
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Last week, Luke Muehlhauser reposted an essay by Robert M. Price under the title “Changing Morals and the Fate of Evangelicalism” (I don’t know if this was the original title). Price’s thesis is straightforward and compelling: Evangelicals are about to cave in to mainstream pressures to drop teachings that all non-Christians are damned, as well [...]