I have now completed Part II of The End of Christianity, a section which aimed through the essays of Hector Avalos, Jaco Gericke and Valerie Tarico, to establish on biblical grounds why Christianity needs to end. At this point I’d like to take a look back at the section by identifying a set of assumptions […]
Hector Avalos
The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 5)
In the fourth chapter of The End of Christianity Hector Avalos promises to explain “Why Biblical Studies Must End.” I’ll engage with the essay in three steps: first, a quick reading of what I take to be the main take-home point; second, an observation on how the essay found itself in the wrong place at the […]
On wanting Christianity to End
Just because your blog has a reader doesn’t mean it has a fan. I learned that one a long time ago. Case in point, one of my readers named Grady has attacked my defense of my blurb for Loftus’ The End of Christianity, and he’s done so with spit and vinegar. While I already responded to […]
Hector Avalos puts Yahweh in the dock (or tries to)
Hector Avalos, “Yahweh is a Moral Monster,” The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, ed. John Loftus (Amherst: Prometheus, 2010), 209-236. At long last we continue our ongoing, meandering, waxing and wandering review of The Christian Delusion with a quick review of Hector Avalos’ essay “Yahweh is a Moral Monster.” I don’t have too much to say about […]
