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Jesus and the Devil Get into a Fight, …He Wins!
If I have to be terrified of God, then I don’t see a difference between God and Satan… - Sonya D. Fowler, Posted on Twitter, July 29th, 2012 South Park It’s a funny thing, even unbelievers typically...
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When Values Trump Themselves: A Rant About Self-Defeating Ethics
Sometimes idealization strengthens a value; sometimes it destroys it. The trick is to know the difference. It gets more difficult to tell the difference when a value becomes central to one’s own life,...
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Of Loyalties and Lords and Faith as a Horror Show
Kent State Memorial(Rejected) Of all the Old Testament stories in my old Cartoon Bible, the one that made the greatest impression on me as a child was the story the Abraham and Isaac. It’s a pretty...
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The Devil is in the Deductions: Spiritual Warfare and Apologetics Viewed from...
The first sin was not the eating of an apple (or even a pomegranate). No, it began when mankind (or at least Eve) gave an ear to the Serpent, or so the story goes, at least according to my old...
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Allegiance to God and Country, …and to Anachronisms Aplenty!
One hears it all the time; the notion that religion ought to be kept out of politics. I’m torn by the suggestion, because it is commonly used in response to the politics of conservative Christians,...
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Compassion with Caveats Aplenty and Malice by Any Other Name: The Case of a...
Sometimes your 15 minutes of fame is a moment in the sunshine (or so I hear), and sometimes it’s fifteen minutes under the spotlight of public interrogation (or so I fear). Sometimes, I expect it’s a...
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Who Needs Christmas? I Can be a Grinch All Year Long!
Y’all might have noticed a little clip making the rounds on the net lately. It’s a debate between Jamie Kilstein and John Fugelsang over the existence of God. It occurs on Totally Biased with Kamau...
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An Uncommon Holy Relic: Sheela-Na-Gig!
Okay, now I know what you are thinking; “Dan is posting porn again! Will someone please keep him away from that damned erotic heritage place!?!” But no. I tell you I didn’t find this in a red light...
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God is Not an Apologist! (Except Maybe on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 to...
Yes, the Holy Bible comes in an Arctic Edition Somewhere in the movie, God is Not Dead, the main character proclaims that the burden both theists and atheists must face is the question of how the...
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God, This Movie is Awfully Damned Trite!
The most fascinating thing about the movie ‘God is Not Dead’ isn’t the conflict between atheism and Christianity; it’s the tension between narrative and argumentative styles of presentation. The...
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Merry [War on the (War On)] Christmas!
Got this here: http://savannahchristian.com/blog/christmas-with-a-capital-c If I was to list the things I hate about Christmas, that list might well include Black Friday, bland food, and blander music....
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Want to Hear Gay Porn? Listen to a Homophobic Crusader!
I suppose it really shouldn’t surprise me, but it’s amusing to see just how fascinated some folks are with the mechanics of gay sex. It wasn’t that long ago that Phil Robertson treated us all to a...
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Decalogic Schemalogic!
Maybe you’ve seen it yourself. One of the many pieces of spirit-kitch floating about the net these days is a little gem called The Native American Ten Commandments. It might as easily be labelled an...
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“The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”…In Which I Read Snake Oil
I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t the fate of prominent atheists to end up with Christian apologists for spokesmen. Okay, I don’t literally believe in fate (either), but let’s just say the pattern is...
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Let Us Not Praise the Prosperity Gospel With Faint Damn: It’s Worse than its...
“Joel Osteen’s Fake, Heretical ‘Christianity’ Isn’t Any Better Than Atheism.” That’s the title of an article from blogger Matt Walsh published yesterday on The Blaze. If Matt Walsh ever does have a...
View ArticleFundamentalism by Proxy and the Guilting of the Godly
A general suspicion of religion comes to mind easily enough. Hell, even religious people frequently exhibit this suspicion (tempered as it is with whatever thoughts they’ve assembled into their own...
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Memo to Coach Everyman
To: Coach Everyman From: Principal Stiffton, Everytown Public High School, USA Re: Locker Room Talk I wanted to follow up on our conversation earlier this afternoon and share with you a few of the...
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Ironic Redemptions and Persistent Crimes
I’m still trying to get used to seeing Jim Bakker in the news again. I’m old enough to remember when his initial scams were alive and well. I remember how painfully obvious his deceits were. I remember...
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