I already say this on my works page, but I just want to make sure everyone knows that I’m available to do religion-related debates. Live, podcast, or radio, all are good. While I’m at it, I want to say something that I hopes gets broadcast loud and clear through religion-debating circles: If I debate William [...]
Category Archives: Evangelicals
I’m available for debates (and if I debate William Lane Craig on the resurrection, I’ll win)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 29, 2010
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Let nothing be held hostage to dogma
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 30, 2010
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It’s tempting to see the accommodationist vs.Gnu atheist debate as a debate about two questions. One is about of principles: if science and religion do conflict, would we have to tell the truth about that? The other is about priorities: is it more important to get evolution taught in public schools, or more important to [...]
What Christians don’t believe about sin and why it matters
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 22, 2010
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If you read atheist polemics against Christianity, Christian ideas about sin come up relatively infrequently. I know I’ve been tempted to dismiss what Christians say about sin as a superficial rationalization for the one really vile doctrine of Christianity, the doctrine that God damns people for unbelief. Recently, though, I’ve realized just how wrong this [...]
How to tell if you’re an anti-gay bigot
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 27, 2010
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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 [...]
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 [...]