This article is a quick follow up to my article “On believing God (or Santa Claus) doesn’t exist” in which I critique Jack David Eller’s essay “What is Atheism?” Four years ago I reviewed another essay by Eller in John Loftus’ volume The Christian Delusion. Eller’s essay was a mishmash of rhetorical gobbledygook bereft of […]
David Eller
Those Cunning Christians: On “The Christian Delusion” (Part 5)
This is the fifth installment in my review of The Christian Delusion which was originally published at “The Christian Post” in 2010. * * * The first section of The Christian Delusion is ominously titled “Why Faith Fails.” One might expect then to find in the first essay of this section an argument illustrating to […]
The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 12)
I was not very kind to David Eller’s first contribution to The End of Christianity. I shall continue my curmudgeonly ways as I review his second contribution, an essay titled “Is Religion Compatible with Science?” I shall begin my complaints with the topic. Why “religion”? Why not focus on Christianity and argue for the incompatibility […]
The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 2)
My last exchange with David Eller over his essay in The Christian Delusion was not pretty. Simply because I pointed out that he forgot to include an argument in his chapter he responded that I was “clearly unfamiliar with the abundant literature”. That’s a great line. In fact it is so good that I’ve appropriated […]
