Showing posts with label beliefs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beliefs. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Three Ways The Last Jedi Reflects Troubling Trends in Culture

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It should be no surprise that The Last Jedi , the latest installment in the Star Wars franchise, is by all measures an instant succe...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Identity vs. Use: What Is Religious Prejudice?

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Imagine you are part of a church with a preschool and daycare center. You enroll children of any religion, and the townspeople rely upo...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Persecuting Christian Belief for Public Office

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Religious liberty is a key right recognized by all civilized people. The ability for one to not only worship as he believes but to live ...
Thursday, May 04, 2017

Atheists Should Admit Christianity is Different than Made-Up Faiths

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Last month, the Dublin newspaper The Evening Herald reported that fifty different official religions were given to the 2016 census ta...
Monday, January 02, 2017

The silliness of claiming we were all atheists at birth

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There has been a lot of talk in the past few months about "fake news." Fake news stories are those purported by some web site a...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

What Do We Mean When We Say the Word "Cult"? (video)

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Say the word "cult" and what comes to mind? Perhaps hooded figures keeping people against their will or a maniacal preacher fi...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Is Rejecting God a Sign of Rationality or Resentment?

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It is natural to believe in God. The vast majority of people throughout most of history and across all cultures have had some kind of b...
Monday, June 06, 2016

For the Naturalist, Why Die for an Idea?

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I'm writing this blog post on June 6, which is 72 years to the day that the Allied forces, led by the United States, invaded the be...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

How Can We be Equal without Christianity?

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Throughout the history of civilization, people have sought to understand themselves by seeking to understand their place in society. Wh...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

Finding Christian Hope in This Election Cycle

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Today is the National Day of Prayer and I know a lot of Christians who are praying for this country more than ever before. Principled p...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Another Sign It's the End of the World as We Know It, Christian

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You've just heard the news. That announcement about the thing that you would never imagine would have happened but did. That decisio...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

The Evil of Scientology (podcast)

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You've probably seen the commercials for Dianetics or walked past some folks offering a free personality test. Both are ways to entic...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Jesus Ate with Criminals; Why Wouldn't He Bake a Cake for a Gay Person?

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The radical shift in society's understanding of homosexual unions has caused a sort of whiplash in our culture. Homosexual activist...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Does "We Believe as We Are Taught" Explain Christianity's Popularity?

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The vast majority of people across the globe believe in some type of deity. However, much has been made of recent polls showing that in...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Overcoming the Conspiracy Against Christianity

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Ideas matter. They matter because they shape how we understand the world in which we live. They matter because they motivate us to want...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Are Atheist Countries Really More Moral?

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Within the last twenty four hours I saw two different versions of a meme gaining popularity online. The latest one references the nati...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Must Science Assume Atheism?

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I recently listened to an interesting conversation between Alister McGrath and Jim Al-Kalili on the Unbelievable! podcast. Both guest...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Why Doesn't God Just Make Everyone Love Him? (video)

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One of the objections to the Christian message of salvation is that those who don't follow the Christian God are condemned to eternal...