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Finding the Devil in Rock and Roll … Backwards

November 18, 2020 by Randal

The single most infamous song of the backward masking craze of the 1980s was surely Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” A message from the devil or a trick of the imagination? I’ll say the latter. But when we were kids, playing “Stairway to Heaven” backward on the record player was still a memorable way to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: devil, fundamentalism, Rock and roll, What's So Confusing About Grace?

47. The Devil’s in the Music: On growing up evangelical in the 80s

May 13, 2014 by Randal

I grew up reading Hal Lindsey books. Beginning with The Late, Great Planet Earth (1970), Mr. Lindsey had a string of bestsellers throughout the 1970s. And each of those books promoted a popularist form of dispensationalist Christianity that read the predicted future of the book of Revelation in the unfolding events of the evening news. […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: backmasking, culture, demons, devil, dispensationalism, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Hal Lindsey, Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

Is John W. Loftus “dumber than a box of rocks”?

August 13, 2011 by Randal

In The End of Christianity John W. Loftus describes the following Christian belief which he finds very implausible: “That the highest created being known as Satan or the devil, led an angelic rebellion against an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent God … and expected to win. This makes Satan out to be suicidal, inexplicably evil, and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: devil, John W. Loftus, protest atheism, The End of Christianity

The Devil and the Atheist

August 12, 2011 by Randal

John Loftus ends his essay “Christianity is Wildly Improbable” in The End of Christianity with an additional fifteen beliefs he finds wildly implausible. Since I already provided a critique that undercut his whole improbability method I didn’t bother to deal with these points directly in my review of the chapter. But I’d like to engage one […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: devil, John W. Loftus, The End of Christianity

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