It’s time for another award for a commenter who says something that needs no further commentary. This time the award goes to James Sweet who offered this response to the post about hate messages against an atheist on Facebook: This is probably a minority of Christians who are like this. A significant minority, mind you, [...]
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Goodness Is A Factual Matter (Goodness=Effectiveness) Grounding Objective Value Independent Of Human Interests And Moralities Effectiveness Is The Primary Goal In Itself, Not Merely A Means Non-Reductionistic Analysis Of Values Into Facts On The Intrinsic Connection Between Being And Goodness Deriving An Atheistic, Naturalistic, Realist Account Of Morality On Good And Evil For Non-Existent PeopleTELEOLOGICAL / CONSEQUENTIALIST ETHICS
How Our Morality Realizes Our Humanity Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice My Perfectionistic, Egoistic AND Universalistic, Indirect Consequentialism (And Contrasts With Other Kinds) On Teleology and Intellectual Virtues and Vices (5)VIRTUES
Rightful Pride: Identification With One’s Own Admirable Powers And Effects The Harmony Of Humility And Pride Conceptual Problems For The Ideal of Unconditional Love How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways Call It Volitional Love Rather Than Unconditional LovePLEASURE, PAIN
What Is Happiness And Why Is It Good? Pleasure And Pain As Intrinsic Instrumental Goods What Does It Mean For Pleasure And Pain To Be “Intrinsically Instrumental” Goods? Subjective Valuing And Objective Values My Perspectivist, Teleological Account Of The Relative Values Of Pleasure And PainGOOD WITHOUT GOD
On The Incoherence Of Divine Command Theory And Why Even If God DID Make Things Good And Bad, Faith-Based Religions Would Still Be Irrelevant The Separability Of Metaethics From Questions Of Theism Are Sex and Morality Merely “Evolutionary Tricks”? For God or Morality? On Those Who’d Hold Morality Hostage For Faith Being Personally Moral Is Not Enough, Atheists Need A Coherent Metaethics Can You Have A Heart Without Having “The Heart of God”?MORAL PLURALISM
Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation Further Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation Moral vs. Non-Moral ValuesMORAL MUTABILITY
Mutable Morality, Not Subjective Morality. Moral Pluralism, Not Moral Relativism. How Morality Can Change Through Objective Processes And In Objectively Defensible WaysMORAL INTUITIONISM
Against Moral Intuitionism Rejecting And Reconciling Moral Intuitionist Ideas With My Naturalist Account Of GoodnessSUBJECTIVISM
I Am A Moral Naturalist, Not A SubjectivistRELIGION WITHIN REASON
Against Accommodationism: Religion Has NO Rightful Claim To An Unencroachable “Magisteria” Of Its Own True Religion? How Jon Stewart Dropped The Ball On The Faith And Science Quesiton (But How Religion Can Be Redeemed Nonetheless) Why I Think Theistic Religion’s Psychological Grip Can Be Weakened Or BrokenTowards Atheistic Religions (Or Away From Them, Depending On How You Define “Religions”)MEANING AND "SPIRITUALITY" WITHIN REASON
On Defending True Spirituality And Taking The Word Back From Spiritually Bankrupt Fundamentalism I Am Interviewed About My Personal (Atheistic) Religiosity/Spirituality Is It A Waste Of Time For Atheists To Care About Spirituality? On The Meaning Of Meaning Character As Fate And Environment As Variability Not “I’ll Pray For You” But “I Love You”APOSTASY
Apostasy As A Religious Act (Or “Why A Camel Hammers The Idols Of Faith”) Sex And Apostasy Defending Apostates’ Intellects Against A Dismissive Christian ApologistSYMPATHY FOR THE RELIGIOUS
Can You Really Love Religious People If You Hate Their Religion? What Can An Atheist Love In People’s Religiosity? The Complicated Relationship Of An Apostate To His Religious Friends And His Reilgious PastCIVILITY BTWN ATHEISTS AND THEISTS
Is Debate Between Believers And Non-Believers Inevitably Futile? The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth—But With No Name Calling When (And How) Should We Bother To Push The Issues? On Meeting People Where They Are TOP Q: “How Is It Fair To Question Other People’s Identity-Forming Beliefs While Demanding Respect For One’s Own Belief-Formed Identities?” Top 10 Tips For Reaching Out To Atheists Does Faith Make You An Idiot? What’s Wrong With Prejudice And Is It Prejudicial To Dislike Someone Over His Bad Thinking? PZ Myers Shouldn’t Sound Like Sarah PalinROMAN CATHOLICS
The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70sAPPLIED ETHICS
Ricky Gervais, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, And Ethical Dilemmas In Comedy Legalism Over Life: Nun Supports Life-Saving Abortion And Gets Excommunicated Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving AbortionPROBLEM OF EVIL
On God As The Source Of Being But Not Of Evil Why Worship Someone With Mysterious Motives?ATHEIST SOLIDARITY
The “A” Word Who Cares About Atheists? You Might Be An Atheist Even If You Hate The New Atheists My Atheistic Reply To Rabbi Adam Jacobs’s Open Letter To The Atheist Community Are Atheists An Oppressed Minority?THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
The Religious Conservative’s False Choice: “Big Brother” Or “Heavenly Father” Thoughts On The Ethics Of Private Vs. Publicly-Mediated Generostiy How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic OnesREASONS FOR ATHEISM
No, I’m Not An Atheist By Faith, Here Are My Arguments. Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons The Cosmological Argument, The Composition Fallacy, And More Reasons Not To Believe In God Do New Atheists Unjustifiably Shirk Their Burden For Evidence?ERIC STEINHART ON METAPHYSICS
6 Basic Kinds Of Answer To The Question “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?” The Positive Content of Atheism Why Materialism is Unscientific The Simulation Hypothesis The Secret Agreement between Atheists and TheistsAGNOSTICISM, ATHEISM, & THEISM
Disambiguating Faith: How A Lack Of Belief In God May Differ From Various Kinds Of Beliefs That Gods Do Not Exist Distinguishing The Atheist Agnostic, The Theist Gnostic, The Atheist Gnostic, and The Theist Agnostic Agnostics Or Apistics? Disambiguating Faith: The Evidence-Impervious Agnostic Theists Atheists Have Affirmative Positions On The Status Of Evidence And On The Standards Of BeliefFAITH AS LEAP
Disambiguating Faith: Faith Which Exploits Infinitesimal Probabilities As Openings For Strong AffirmationsJUSTIFIED BELIEF VS. FAITH BELIEF
Disambiguating Faith: Not All Beliefs Held Without Certainty Are Faith Beliefs Disambiguating Faith: Defending My Definition Of Faith As “Belief Or Trust Beyond Rational Warrant”FAITH AS CHOICE
Disambiguating Faith: Implicit Faith Disambiguating Faith: Why Faith Is Unethical (Or "In Defense Of The Ethical Obligation To Always Proportion Belief To Evidence") How Faith Is Not Like Other (Revisable) Reflexive Assumptions (6)TRUST VS. FAITH
Disambiguating Faith: Trustworthiness, Loyalty, And Honesty Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Loyally Trusting Those Insufficiently Proven To Be TrustworthyFAITH AS TRADITIONALISM
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Tradition Disambiguating Faith: Blind Faith: How Faith Traditions Turn Trust Without Warrant Into A Test Of Loyalty Disambiguating Faith: The Threatening Abomination Of The FaithlessUNCERTAIN BELIEFS
Rational Beliefs, Rational Actions, And When It Is Rational To Act On What You Don’t Think Is True Disambiguating Faith: Faith As GuessingBETTER THAN FAITH
Disambiguating Faith: Are True Gut Feelings And Epiphanies Beliefs Justified By Faith? Disambiguating Faith: Faith Is Neither Brainstorming, Hypothesizing, Nor Simply Reasoning Counter-Intuitively Disambiguating Faith: Faith In The Sub-, Pre-, Or Un-consciousFAITH AS RATIONALIZATION
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As A Form Of Rationalization Unique To Religion Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Deliberate Commitment To Rationalization Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims ObjectivityDOUBT VS. FAITH
Disambiguating Faith: Faith Is Preconditioned By Doubt, But Precludes Serious Doubting Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Tradition’s Advocate And Enforcer, Opposed To Merely Provisional Forms Of Trust Disambiguating Faith By Soul Searching With Clergy GuyCHILDREN'S REASONING
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Corruption Of Children’s Intellectual JudgmentATHEISM DIFFERS FROM FAITH
Evangelical Atheism? Is Reason My “God” In Whom I Have “Faith?” Is Reason My "God" 2: On Authority, Uncertainty, and Inexplicability Is Reason My "God" 3: What It Means To Be A Rational Being Is Reason My God 4: On Reason As An Authority Answering Accusations Against Atheists: The Charge We Naively Blame All War On Religion Atheist Groupthink?DEISM VS. THEISM
On The Possible God Of Philosophy And Cosmology Vs. The Personal, Historical God Of FaithPOLITICAL VALUES
Some Suspicions About The Superiority Of Liberal Moral Values Philosophical Ethics: Hobbes On The Source Of Authority Philosophical Ethics: Rawls’s Maximin Principle Some More Thoughts On Rawls’s Maximin Principle And Fairness Philosophical Ethics: Can We Uphold A Moral Law And A Principle That We Should Break It? How Christian Beliefs And Values Are No More Creditable With America’s Founding Than Islamic OnesEPISTEMOLOGY
Clarifying The Relationships Between Dogmatism, Skepticism, And Properly Proportioned Belief Evolution and Epistemology If Faith Isn’t Publicly Justifiable, How Can It Provide Justification At All?METAETHICISTS
Philosophical Ethics: On G.E. Moore’s Notion Of Good As An Indefinable Non-Natural Property Philosophical Ethics: From G.E. Moore’s Non-Naturalism To C.L. Stevenson’s Emotivism Philosophical Ethics: A.J. Ayer And The Emotivism Of A Positivist Philosophical Ethics: J.L. Mackie’s Error Theory And Jonathan Harrison’s Critique Thereof Philosophical Ethics: R.M. Hare On Moral Consistency As A Form Of Logical Consistency Philosophical Ethics: Bruce Russell On Theories About What Makes An Action Rational Or Not Philosophical Ethics: Does Calling Someone Evil Explain Anything About Them?KANT
Philosophical Ethics: Kant, The Good Will, And Rational Actions Philosophical Ethics: "But Why MUST I?" Kant’s Ironic Formulation Of Liberty As Duty Philosophical Ethics: A Possible Kantian Formula For Determining The Permissibility Of Self-DefenseMOTIVES
Philosophical Ethics: Whether It’s Worth It To Be Just With No Incentives Or With DisincentivesETHICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
An Argument For Gay Marriage And Against Traditionalism Judge This: No Gay Kissing On Modern Family? Happy National Coming Out Day 2009! Unreal Discrimination?GAYS AND CHRISTIANITY
Bishop of Church of England Doesn’t “Share Same Faith” As Those Who Accept Homosexuality A Follow Up Post On Gays And Christianity Confronting Conservative Christians With The Consequences Of Their Homophobia Gays and Christianity 3: If God Exists and Is Good, He Cannot Oppose Gay Love Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes AreDISCRIMINATION
Sexism And Sensitivity On Gary Bauer’s Claims That American Muslims Get Better Treatment Than American ChristiansRELIGION'S VICES
Is God Needed For Us To Care About Starving Kids A World Away? Religion As A Morally and Politically Ambivalent Force Answering Accusations Against Atheists: The Charge That Atheists Have Faith TooSCIENCE VS. FAITH
How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution’s Mindlessness The (Jesuit) Father Of The Big Bang Theory In What Sense Religious Scientists Shouldn't Exist What’s Wrong With Religious Scientists? More Thoughts On Scientists In The Public Square When Should A Scientist’s Faith Disqualify Him From Scientific Institutional Authority? On Unjustifiably Leveraging One’s Credibility Against Faith and In Defense of Naturalism and Induction (7)MODERATE RELIGION
Will The Real Atheists Please Stop Kneeling The Value Of Religious Moderates And The Danger Of Isolating Religious And Political Fundamentalists What’s In A Name? On Redefining Belief In God Rather Than Rejecting It Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellecuals 1 Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals 2 Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals 3 Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals 4ANTAGONISTIC ATHEISM
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Category Archives: Jesus
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: James Sweet
August 11, 2011 – 11:49 amBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Jesus, Morality, Morality, Philosophy Of Religion | Comments (0)Gays, Jesus, and Judging
July 6, 2011 – 2:12 pmIn response to my earlier post praising a young Christian man who reached out with love to what he thought was a lesbian couple being berated by a cruel and judgmental waitress, Justin writes: Not to point out the obvious, but homosexuality is a sin, You have indeed not pointed out anything obvious. Homosexuality is [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Jesus, LGBTQAA, Morality, Morality, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion | Tagged Immoralism, Moral Reformation, Moral Reformers | Comments (2)The Best Christian Ever
May 24, 2011 – 9:19 pmThis video, from ABC’s show What Would You Do?, features an incredible gesture of altruistic human love which made me quite teary to watch. And it’s by someone inspired by Jesus. If only this was the sum of what following Jesus meant to people: Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Sociology, Videos | Tagged ABC's "What Would You Do?" | Comments (7)Robert Price on the Mythic Precedents of the Jesus Story
April 24, 2011 – 1:59 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Religion, Religion, Skepticism, Skepticism | Comments (3)Jesus In, Zombie Out. Never A Miscommunication.
April 23, 2011 – 10:03 amBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Religion, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire | Tagged Bill O'Reilly, Never a miscommunication, Tides Go In Tides Go Out, Zombie Jesus, Zombies | Comments (0)Questions Intelligent Christians Must Answer
February 13, 2011 – 8:38 pmEarlier tonight on the internets I went around promoting a list I made a while ago of my then 10 favorite atheist YouTube video makers. One glaring omission from that list was the great ProfMTH, so I felt obliged to call attention to one of his videos tonight: Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Miracles, Miracles, Prayer, Prayer, Videos | Comments (0)Sundaily Hilarity: Jesus Is A Jerk
January 2, 2011 – 8:19 pmAt the website With You Always, you can see Larry Van Pelt’s drawings of Jesus accompanying people throughout all the moments of their lives . And at Jesus Is A Jerk they add captions to them. The combined result usually comes out like these: And so on and so forth, there are many hilarious ones. [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Jesus, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire | Comments (6)Christmas Daily Hilarity: Jesus The Magician
December 25, 2010 – 2:13 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheist Videos, Bible, Christianity, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Religion, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos | Tagged Jesus Turning Water into Wine, Marriage at Cana, Mary Mother of Jesus, Rowan Atkinson | Comments (0)Sundaily Hilarity: Jesus Loves You
October 24, 2010 – 3:35 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Jesus, Parody, Parody, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Satire, Satire | Comments (12)Jesus’s Side Of The Crucifixion Story
October 12, 2010 – 12:07 amBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Christianity, Jesus, Religious Satire, Religious Satire | Comments (0)What It Really Means To Tell Gays To “Resist Their Temptation”
October 2, 2010 – 11:16 amVia Dan Savage, A Christian decodes for his brethren: When you tell a gay person to “resist” being gay, what you are really telling them—what you really mean—is for them to be celibate. What you are truly and actually saying is that you want them to condemn themselves to a life devoid of love. Be [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, God, God, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Jesus, LGBTQAA, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion | Comments (10)“Jesus Said It, But He Didn’t Mean It.”
September 19, 2010 – 6:35 pmA classic ProfMTH video explores the bizarre attitude by which Christians regularly cite Jesus as the perfect Son of God who couldn’t quite perfectly say what he meant: Your Thoughts?
Sundaily Hilarity: Neo-Con Jesus
September 12, 2010 – 9:20 amBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Comedy, Comedy, Jesus, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Religious Satire, Religious Satire, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire | Tagged DarkMatter2525 | Comments (0)Louie CK On God
September 9, 2010 – 8:11 amBelow is Louie CK’s NSFW full episode of his show “Louie” devoted to religion, focusing for the most part on the dubious means by which children in particular are emotionally manipulated through the Roman Catholic Church’s emphasis on the violent death of Jesus which they are told is their fault. Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Christianity, Comedy, Comedy, God, God, Hilarious, Jesus, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church | Tagged Abraham, Crucifixion, Louie CK, Stand Up | Comments (3)Are Jesus And God Really The Same Being?
July 25, 2010 – 7:57 pmNonstampcollector’s video “What Would Yahweh Do?” gives the strong impression they’re not. Your Thoughts?
“Mickey Mouse Jesus” Gets Art Curators Convicted Of Inciting Religious Hatred In Moscow
July 13, 2010 – 11:57 amThe LA Atheism Examiner reports: Two art curators, Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, were convicted Monday by a Moscow court of “inciting religious hatred’ for putting on an exhibet called “Forbidden Art” in 2007. A Mickey Mouse Jesus, a Coca Cola Christ with the slogan “this is my blood” and a Christ on the cross [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Arts, Christianity, Christianity, Free Speech, Free Speech, Jesus, Law, Law, Religion, Religious Satire, Religious Satire | Tagged Andrei Yerofeyev, Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyanksy, Blasphemy Laws, Gleb Yakunin, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse Jesus, Russian Orthodox Church, Yuri Samodurov | Comments (1)Why Progressive Interpretations Of The Old Testament Still Do Not Justify Its God Morally
July 11, 2010 – 4:48 pmIn reply to this video on various immoral things outright commanded in what is supposed to be God’s law in the Old Testament, Loyal writes: Militaristic non-Christians often seize upon the many difficult passages where God is condoning morally repugnant acts. I am glad you admit that they are morally repugnant acts and neither morally [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheism, Atheism, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention, Faith, Faith, God, God, Jesus, Religion, Religion, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian | Comments (8)30 Preposterous Things You Need To Believe To Be A Christian
July 7, 2010 – 6:00 pmJohn W. Loftus, the former minister turned atheist, author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, and the primary blogger at Debunking Christianity (whose updates you can follow daily in our blogroll feed) has a terrific summation of 30 extraordinarily unlikely ideas, at least most of which most Christians would have to [...]
The Cosmological Argument, The Composition Fallacy, And More Reasons Not To Believe In God
July 3, 2010 – 4:29 pmShane Wilkins, a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham (where we were fellow students and colleagues until just recently), has been an invaluable regular commentator at Camels With Hammers. He has served as my primary theistic foil since the beginning, when our 7-part debate (which started with my post Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellecuals 1) propelled this [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Featured, Historical Philosophy, Jesus, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Religion, Spinoza, Spinoza, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian | Tagged Composition Fallacy, Compositional Wholes | Comments (3)Daily Hilarity: Children’s Guide To Religion
June 29, 2010 – 5:18 pmThanks to Das for the hilarious find: “Sometimes I think God drinks my tears and pees them back on my life.” Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Christianity, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Islam, Islam, Jesus, Judaism, Judaism, LGBTQAA, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church | Comments (3)Bart Ehrman’s Concise, Informative Summation Of The Case Against New Testament Reliability On Jesus’s Alleged Resurrection
June 28, 2010 – 12:08 pmBy Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, Jesus, Religion, Religion | Tagged Bart Ehrman | Comments (7)Huge Jesus Statue Struck By Lightning
June 15, 2010 – 10:55 amHe must have done something to really piss God off. You don’t think he suggested a change to the official policy on gays, do you? The full story is from the Associated Press and the photo comes from them too. Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Religion, Unintentional Comedy | Tagged Novelties, Superstition | Comments (0)The Christian Logic Of Power, Pride, Humility, Free Will, Original Sin, And All-Consuming Divine Narcissism
June 14, 2010 – 6:43 pmPride has traditionally been disparaged by Christianity as not only a vice but as the chief vice and gone so far as to recommend humility as one of the highest virtues for a human being. The theological reasons for this begin with the way that traditional Christianity understands human beings primarily relationally, as in an [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheism, Bible, Christianity, Featured, God, Religion, Virtues | Tagged Adam and Eve, Augustine, Christian Logic of Power, Divine Narcissism, Eternal Servitude, Eternal Worship, Free Will, God's "Justice", God's Unfairness, Humility, Illogical Christian Doctrines, Immoral Christian Doctrines, Omnipotence, Original Sin, Personal God, Power, Pride, St. Augustine, Tyrant God, Vices | Comments (7)How Apologetic Goals Compromise Christian Apologists’ Historical Research
June 8, 2010 – 11:00 amAppealing to insights of the great theologian Paul Tillich, Robert M. Price takes on the corruption of research when it has a defensive agenda. (Sadly, this video was taken down from YouTube) via Your Thoughts?
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Christianity, History, Religion | Tagged Apologetics, Paul Tillich, Religious Apologetics, Resurrection of Jesus, Robert M. Price | Comments (0)If You Know The Bible, You Know It Is Riddled With Clear Contradictions
April 26, 2010 – 9:44 amNonStampCollector provides a hilariously fun, rapid-paced, guide to biblical contradictions through a cartoon quiz show. This video is, in short, a great resource which every Christian should take to heart and every atheist should memorize and have available for making the case against biblical credibility as in any way divinely guaranteed: Here’s a handy list [...]
By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheist Videos, Bible, Christianity, Comedy, Faith, God, Hilarious, New Atheism, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire, Skepticism, Videos, Why I Am Not A Christian | Tagged 1 Chronicles 11:11, 1 Chronicles 18:4, 1 Chronicles 21:25, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 1 Corinthians 14:33, 1 John 4:8, 1 Kings 15:11-12, 1 Timothy 6:16, 2 Chronicles 15:12-13, 2 Kings 2:11, 2 Peter 3:10, 2 Samuel 23:8, 2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:9, 2 Samuel 8:4, 70 Elders of Israel, Abraham, Acts 1:18, Acts 22:9, Acts 2:44-45, Acts 4:34-37, Acts 9:7, Ascension, Bible As Unreliable Historical Testimony, Biblical Contradictions, Biblical Corporate Solidarity, Biblical Death Penalties, Biblical Discrepancies, Biblical Inerrancy, Biblical Inerrantism, Biblical Infallibilism, Biblical Infallibility, Biblical Literacy, Cartoons, Corporate Solidarity, Deuteronomy 13:13-16, Deuteronomy 17:12, Deuteronomy 24:16, Deuteronomy 5:9, Ecclesiastes 1:4, Empty Tomb, Exodus 20:24, Exodus 21:15, Exodus 22:20, Exodus 24:9-11, Exodus 31:12-15, Exodus 33:11, Exodus 33:20, Exodus 34:6, Galations 2:16, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 1:25-27, Genesis 2:18-19, Genesis 32:30, Genesis Creation Account, God's Wrath, Herod, Isaiah 1;14, Isaiah 40:28, Isaiah 43:24, Isaiah 45:7, Jacob, James 2:24, Jeremiah 17:4, Jeremiah 7:22, Jesus Curses Fig Tree, Jesus Healing Blind Men Near Jericho, Joab, John 19:1-2, John 1:18, John 20:1, John 20:12, John 3:13, Judas, Justification By Faith Alone, Justification By Works, King David, Leviticus 20:10, Leviticus 20:13, Leviticus 20:27, Leviticus 20:9, Leviticus 21:9, Leviticus 24:10-16, Luke 10:26-28, Luke 12:33, Luke 14:33, Luke 18:22, Luke 18:35, Luke 23:11, Luke 23:39-42, Luke 23:45-46, Luke 24:10, Luke 24:2, Luke 24:4, Luke 2:1, Luke 6:24, Mark 10:46, Mark 11:12-17, Mark 15:32, Mark 15:37-38, Mark 16:1, Mark 16:5, Matthew 17-19, Matthew 19:17, Matthew 20:30, Matthew 21:12, Matthew 27:27-28, Matthew 27:44, Matthew 27:5, Matthew 27:50-51, Matthew 28:1, Matthew 28:2, Matthew 2:1, Matthew 7:24, Micah 7:18, Moses, NonStampCollector, Pilate, Psalm 112:1-3, Resurrection of Jesus, Romans 3:28, Seeing God, Temptation, The Thieves Crucified With Jesus, Zechariah 13:3 | Comments (0)

