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Are We In a Post-Truth Culture? My Response to an Evangelical Talking-Point

May 2, 2022 by Randal

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Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, evangelicalism, post-truth, rhetoric

Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History: A Review

April 27, 2022 by Randal

John Dickson. Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History. Zondervan, 2021, 328 pp. Historian Howard Zinn observes, “all history, while recalling the past, serves some present interest.” Anyone who has spent time on the interweb talking to skeptics and atheists has likely encountered Christian history told from the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Bullies and Saints, Christian history, church history, John Dickson, review

Reflecting on the Nature of Hell in a Bathroom Warning Sign

January 25, 2022 by Randal

The other day, I noticed this sign on the bathroom wall at work. Theologians can find theology in just about anything and this sign is a great example. I’m going to talk about the sign in a minute, but first I want to talk about sin and punishment. There are two popular basic views when […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, hell, theology

An Interview with Canadian Catholic

January 24, 2022 by Randal

Today, I was interviewed by the Canadian Catholic YouTube channel on a wide-ranging (if not dizzying) number of topics from hell to James White to gay marriage to John Loftus. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Canadian Catholic, interview

Why It is OK for a Christian Apologist to have Doubts: A Response to James White

January 23, 2022 by Randal

James White recently criticized apologist Mike Licona for saying he was 80% certain that Christianity was true. White went on to suggest that you shouldn’t be an apologist unless you are certain. In this video, I offer a reply. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, certainty, doubt, epistemology, James White

9.5 Theses for Christian Apologetics on Reformation Day

October 31, 2021 by Randal

This Reformation Day, in honor of Luther’s 95 Theses I present 9.5 Theses for Christian apologetics. Okay, it’s actually 10 theses, but the 10th one is really short. 1. Too often, Christian apologists conflate their partisan interpretations of Christianity with the defense of the faith simpliciter. You are welcome to defend young earth creationism or […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics

The Fallacies of Conservative Christian Apologetics

September 17, 2021 by Randal

When I was growing up, the Christian apologists I read often claimed that biblical scholars and archaeologists who arrived at results at odds with conservative evangelical orthodoxy were driven by “naturalistic assumptions”. While there was a kernel of truth in the warning, for the most part, it was false. Often, these scholars were devout Christian […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, evangelicalism

Strawmanning Atheists: A Critique of Frank Turek

July 22, 2021 by Randal

Frank Turek claims that atheists “steal from God.” In this video, I explain how Turek’s argument is based on a strawman of atheistic and a very uncharitable metaphorical framing of atheism conceptual reflection in terms of criminal theft. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Frank Turek, Rebellion Thesis, strawman

The Treatment of the Canaanites is Unique and Unrepeatable? Rebutting a Popular Genocide Apologetic

June 20, 2021 by Randal

One of the common gambits of the Christian apologists who defend the Canaanite genocide is to insist that the narrative does not provide a general justification for genocide because the circumstances were “unique and unrepeatable”. (For example, that is a description I have heard Paul Copan use on different occasions.) The statement seems to have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, genocide

Atheists “Stealing” From God And Other Apologetic Mistakes

June 11, 2021 by Randal

A few years ago, Christian apologist Frank Turek authored a popular book called Stealing from God in which he argued … Well, let’s just let the promotional blurb do the work for us, shall we? “If you think atheists have reason, evidence, and science on their side, think again! Award-winning author Dr. Frank Turek (I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Frank Turek

Frank Turek on the Slaughter of the Canaanites. And My Response.

June 2, 2021 by Randal

The perfectly awful apologetic defense of the Canaanite slaughter in this clip concisely captures why I wrote Jesus Loves Canaanites. Let’s begin with the video (it’s only six minutes). I’ll then post my commentary below. ? The video begins with a question posed by the moderator of what appears to be an in-church training event. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Canaanites, Frank Turek, genocide

A Brief Word on Apologetics, Debate, and Mental Illness

May 24, 2021 by Randal

A clinically depressed atheist who commits suicide is not an excuse to talk about the “emptiness” of an atheistic worldview.   A schizophrenic Christian who harms someone else is not an excuse to talk about the “danger” of divine command ethics.   Don’t exploit mental illness. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, mental illness

Killing the Children of Jericho: How Paul Copan Avoids the Question

May 22, 2021 by Randal

In this video, we listen to an excerpt of a debate in which Paul Copan is asked directly about the killing of children as referenced in the slaughter of all the residents of Jericho, men and women, young and old (Joshua 6:21). Rather than address directly the ethics of slaughtering children and infants, Copan deflects […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, hermeneutics, Jericho, Paul Copan

The Ten Worst Defenses of the Canaanite Genocide

May 5, 2021 by Randal

Christian apologists have offered many bad arguments to explain how God commanded the genocidal slaughter of ancient peoples. In this video, I survey the ten worst. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, hermeneutics, Jesus Loves Canaanites

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