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Let’s discuss the Confederate Flag in Pop Culture

February 2, 2019 by Randal

Here’s my Twitter survey question posted this morning. Is there still a place for the General Lee in pop culture memory or should we do away with images of the Confederate flag once and for all? Let me know your thoughts below. Given the car's prominent placement of the infamous Confederate flag, an image of slavery […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: censorship, confederate flag, General Lee, racism, slavery

Every community has controversies they don’t teach (or even tolerate)

November 10, 2011 by Randal

The Atheist Missionary replied to my post on Mike Licona and academic freedom as follows: “Licona’s experience is precisely why I am so dubious of relying on the opinion of Biblical scholars whose tenure is tied to adhering to the tenets of any particular religion.” Walter then chimed in: “Ditto. This is why I am […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: academic freedom, censorship, free speech

First they came for Michael Licona

November 10, 2011 by Randal

A few months back  I blogged in defense of one of evangelical Christianity’s leading apologists and academics, Michael Licona. Why? The poor chap actually had the temerity to raise probing, intellectually honest questions about the historicity of Matthew 27:51-54. Once the hounds of inerrancy caught poor Mike’s scent they started braying and the chase was on. For weeks […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: academic freedom, Al Mohler, censorship, evangelicalism, inerrancy, Michael Licona, Norman Geisler, scholarship, Southern Baptist

Who would vandalize an atheist bus ad?

October 14, 2011 by Randal

The Christian Post recently reported that the Central Arkansas Coalition of Reason won a court case to post atheist messages on the sides of Little Rock’s city buses. But wait a minute. Why did they need to win a court case to do it? Apparently there was significant opposition. Some of the reluctance came from the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: advertising, atheism, bus ad, censorship, Christianity, theism

Gratuitious sex, violence and swearing at the movies? The debate continues

August 10, 2011 by Randal

In “How many ‘F’ words in a film is TOO many?” I critiqued Michael Medved (nineteen years after the fact) and the moralistic-checklist cultural criticism that he and his culture war ilk represent. (Whew, that’s a mouthful.) Brad Haggard responded as follows: Randal, I think I know what you’re saying, but i still am somewhat […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: "Happy Feet", censorship, film, film critics, Lars von Trier, moralism, MPAA, profanity, ratings

How many ‘F’ words in a film is TOO many?

August 9, 2011 by Randal

It has been nineteen years since conservative commentator and film critic Michael Medved published the bestseller Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values (HarperCollins, 1992), a book that made him a hero for “family values” conservatives across North America. While Medved made some valid points about the debasedness of some pop […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: censorship, ethics, film criticism, Hollywood vs. America, Michael Medved, moralism, morality, profanity

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