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ideology

Freethinking children? Not so much.

January 17, 2016 by Randal

Today I came upon the following tweet courtesy of a retweet by Secular Outpost. (As a disclaimer, Secular Outpost does not consider a retweet an endorsement of the tweet. Nor, for that matter, do I.) Meet Zea, the 7-year-old who stood up to a homophobic hate preacher this week by holding up a rainbow sign. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, education, freethought, ideology, indoctrination, Richard Dawkins

Is there still a place to tremble before God?

October 20, 2014 by Randal

Christianity Today recently published a web review of Peter Enns new book The Bible Tells Me So. The reviewer, a fellow named Andrew Wilson, provides a fair-minded and balanced critique of Enns’ book, noting both its strengths while flagging its weaknesses. (That said, I find Wilson’s rating of the book at 2 1/2 stars out […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, fear, ideology, indoctrination

The delusion of the non-creedal atheist

September 8, 2014 by Randal

Many atheists like to present themselves as “free thinkers”, unencumbered by ideology, confession or creed, in contrast to their religionist neighbors. Consider, for example, the venerable organization American Atheists which was founded way back in 1963 to defend the civil liberties of atheists. Under the section of their website titled “Aims and Purposes” the organization defines “atheism” as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: American Atheists, atheism, free thought, ideology, worldview

If we all reasoned like the atheistic ideologue

September 6, 2014 by Randal

The atheist ideologue is so committed to perpetuating his secular ideology that he will impugn “religion” any chance he gets. In the last few weeks the internet has seen a flurry of armchair analysis by atheistic ideologues offering their ruminations on ISIS. Desperately short in their understanding of the geopolitical, social, cultural and historical factors […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, ideology, ISIS

Boghossian’s book helps explain John Loftus’ recent meltdown

February 22, 2014 by Randal

Yesterday I posted an article, “Loftus admits Boghossian doesn’t care about truth. I call that bogusian!” in which I pointed out that John Loftus’ pragmatic defense of Peter Boghossian suggested that neither Loftus nor Boghossian care about truth, despite their asseverations to the contrary. Instead, each subverts truth (e.g. in manner of definitions) to the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ideology, John Loftus, Peter Boghossian

Is Peter Boghossian guilty of hate speech?

January 22, 2014 by Randal

Over the last day my good readers have drawn to our attention a couple passages on Peter Boghossian which are worth spotlighting on the main stage. To begin with, Derek M pointed out a truly bizarre fact that Boghossian’s promotional blurb mentions that he was kicked out of a doctoral program. For example, in the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, fanatic, hate speech, ideology, open society, Peter Boghossian, theism

Things to keep atheists and Christians (and almost everybody else) up at night

December 11, 2012 by Randal

In “John W. Loftus and the Ideologue Barometer” I proposed the following test to discern how ideologicallly committed a person is to their beliefs: Ask yourself this: if I were invited to discuss the three things that most bother me about my belief system, how quickly could I come up with a list and how […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Christianity, doubt, ideology, skepticism, theism

John W. Loftus and the Ideologue Barometer

December 8, 2012 by Randal

A few days ago I emailed John Loftus to invite him up to Edmonton in May for an event to promote the publication of God or Godless, the biggest thing to hit the world of apologetics since More than a Carpenter (actually, make that Summa Contra Gentiles; better yet, Dialogue with Trypho). But I didn’t just […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, debate, God or Godless, ideologue, ideology, John W. Loftus, theism

See no supernaturalism. Hear no supernaturalism. Speak no supernaturalism. A response to Jonathan MS Pearce

July 7, 2012 by Randal

I had an interesting exchange with Jonathan MS Pearce on naturalism and dualism in “The natural and Naturalism“. Not only does the discussion have inherent value, but there are broader lessons here about how to retain intellectual credibility and avoid becoming an ideologue. And for that reason, I’ve decided to put a spotlight on the discussion […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: affirmative atheism, atheism, Debunking Christianity, ideology, Jonathan MS Pearce, naturalism

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