Archive: August, 2011
Are catalysmic natural disasters appropriate for the children’s choir?
The Bible is not for kids. At least much of it isn’t. The eroticism of Song of Songs is not fitting content for bed time devotions. Nor are the scenes of murder, rape and dismemberment in Judges or the shocking descriptions of starvation and cannibalism that one finds in Lamentations. Fortunately there are a range of children’s Bibles [...]
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“And if there’s life on other planets…” Reflections on God and E.T.
This song hit number 1 for a record number of weeks in the summer of 1976. … Sorry, I think I mixed up my notes. That was “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Let’s see. Okay, here it is. Ahem… This blog post hit number 1 at the CP blogging website for a couple days in the summer of 2009! *** Is it [...]
Read moreThe God I really don’t understand
I am almost at an end (for the time being) of recycling my old classic posts from my Christian Post blogging days. Hopefully by the end of this week I’ll be reviewing Loftus The End of Christianity again. In the interim, here is a 2009 article I wrote on a new book (at the time) [...]
Read more“He said he would prefer to go to Hell…”
Here’s another golden oldie. This little number shot to the top of the charts in the summer of 09′. Now back digitally remastered and better than ever, here is “He said he would prefer to go to Hell…” *** Belief and disbelief are often more complicated than we would like to admit. Consequently, drawing a [...]
Read moreOn “Bible-haters”
I have been called many things. This week Steve Hays added yet another label: “Bible hater.” The charge came in his article “Bowdlerizing the Bible” published at Triablogue. This would be comical if it weren’t so sad. I accept the plenary inspiration of scripture. I accept meticulous superintending divine providential activity as the primary means [...]
Read moreA plea for intelligently designed evolution
Back to the CP vault of 2009 articles. Here is another digitally remastered work of art on evolution and ID. *** Intelligent design is a great idea, but why is it owned by those who repudiate neo-Darwinian evolution? A clue as to why the theistic IDers reject evolution comes in the neo-Darwinian definition of the [...]
Read moreThis movie goes on and on and on: A pious reflection on boredom
Who hasn’t sat through a critically acclaimed but painfully boring or otherwise unpleasant film simply because (a) it is supposed to be good and (b) you already paid your money to see it? Two nights ago my wife and I paid for a 48 hour rental on our PVR. The film was critically acclaimed, had [...]
Read moreBeliefs that are forever justified?
El Bryan Libre takes issue with my critique of William Lane Craig. He writes “I think the doubt he’s talking about is strictly whether Christianity (or even just theism) is true.” “Out of the different ways you could have interpreted him what made you choose to go with the most negative (and easiest to knock [...]
Read moreDealing with Doubt? On William Lane Craig’s rather bad advice
Last week The Atheist Missionary made us aware of the following five minute piece of advice on dealing with doubt from the world’s foremost Christian apologist, William Lane Craig. Go ahead, take the five minutes to watch it. I’ll still be around when you’re done to share my opinion. Craig offers three points in response [...]
Read moreWas “Expelled” intelligently designed? A Review
Expelled was released three years ago to great fanfare (at least in the evangelical subculture). Here was a film hosted by a famous comedian (okay, not really; it was actually Ben Stein) which claimed to take on the evolution bullies in the name of God, intellectual freedom, and intelligent design. I did this belated review [...]
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