Randal Rauser

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The Tentative Apologist

Christian Bellows on the Canaanite Genocide

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While researching Jesus Loves Canaanites, I came across some truly abhorrent defenses of biblical genocide in general and pedicide in particular. For example, Christian apologists claimed that the Canaanites were evil squatters, that they were like cancer, and that killing infants would actually be a merciful act. So it should be no surprise that I devoted […]

Christianity for the Hesitant: An Interview with John Stackhouse

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Many in the learned classes in the West find Christianity to be not only false but intellectually arrested and utterly implausible. They see it as a way of viewing reality that belongs to another generation, one that it is no longer defensible for the educated person today. How does the Christian apologist respond to that […]

Saving the World One Mosquito Net at a Time! Join the Movement!

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It’s Giving Tuesday! And you know what that means? It’s time again for my annual fundraiser for the Against Malaria Foundation. The reason I continue to partner with this charitable NGO is simple: need and effectiveness. The Need Let’s talk about the need first. Believe it or not, the mosquito is far and away the […]

Christian Bellows on the Design Argument

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In this excerpt from Christian Bellows Timeless Truth in a World of Lies (A Fundamentalist Apologetics Satire) Christian Bellows gives his account of the design argument for God’s existence. If you think a big bang without a banger is crazy, you’d be right. But that’s just the beginning of the nonsensical doctrines of atheist faith. […]

Why I Think Frank Turek is an Evil Person

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Progressive Christianity is not progressive, and it's not Christian. — Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) November 21, 2022 Frank Turek‘s behavior in this tweet is evil. The term “progressive Christian” is every bit as diverse in lexical range as “evangelical” and has been used to refer to Christians who are demonstrably orthodox (e.g. Brian Zahnd who is […]

Wokeness: A Brief Word

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“Woke” refers to being alert to injustice, and specifically racism, in society. When people disparage wokeness, I want to be charitable and assume that they do not disparage alertness to injustice/racism per se but rather an oversensitivity to it. In other words, like a car alarm that goes off when there is a strong breeze, […]

An Announcement on My Fifteenth Book

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My next book is going to be published later this month. It’s my first satire and it was probably the most fun I ever had writing a book. Here is the title, subtitle, and table of contents. Christian Bellows: Timeless Truth in a World of Lies (A Fundamentalist Apologetics Satire)  Table of Contents Introduction from […]

What Should We Think of the Enneagram? An Interview with Jay Medenwaldt

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Over the last several years, the Enneagram has become a widely used personality test among Christians. While some Christians praise it as a powerful tool, others warn that it has an occultic origin. Still others have simply questioned the scientific rigor and predictive value of the test. So where does the truth lie? In this […]