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John Loftus

On New Atheist Apologist John Loftus

February 25, 2022 by Randal

I just appeared on Canadian Catholic to discuss the life and legacy of new atheist apologist John Loftus: ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Catholic Christianity, interview, John Loftus

The Bible, Divinely Commanded Violence, and Inspiration: My Opening Statement

June 9, 2021 by Randal

In May 2021, I debated John Loftus on Modern Day Debate. The debate resolution was “The Bible, with its divinely commanded violence, wasn’t inspired by a perfect God.” Here is my opening statement in full. Thanks to Modern Day Debate for the invitation to debate and to John Loftus for agreeing to participate. I’d like to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical violence, debate, hermeneutics, Jesus Loves Canaanites, John Loftus

God of Genocide? My Debate with John Loftus

May 4, 2021 by Randal

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Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, debate, genocide, John Loftus

Preach it! On Religious Conversions to Atheism

April 8, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I consider how some atheists experience a dramatic, effectively religious conversion to atheism, one that leads them to adopt a strident, evangelistic attitude toward others which is remarkably similar to the fundamentalist Christian street preacher. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, conversion, John Loftus

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? And what does that mean, anyways?

May 2, 2019 by Randal

As many of you know, in 2013 I published an apologetics debate book with atheist John Loftus titled God or Godless. I thought Loftus did a good job in that book because he can handle short, pithy debates. (And a mere $7 for a paperback is a great deal!) However, when it comes to his blog, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, Islam, John Loftus

Can a subjective, private religious experience be veridical?

December 5, 2018 by Randal

It has been a long while since I engaged anything written by John Loftus. (Though I still think our book God or Godless is an excellent primer to the God debates.) But today I decided to provide a response to a brief new article he wrote titled “Subjective Private Religious Experiences Prove Nothing!” As I said, the article […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, John Loftus, religious experience

Is the biblical God ignorant about science?

February 5, 2018 by Randal

In “Did the biblical concept of God evolve from polytheism?” I reprinted one of the opening statements from my 2013 debate book God or Godless authored with John Loftus. That was so much fun that I decided to add a second instalment. In chapter 14 Loftus’ debate resolution is “The biblical God is ignorant about science”. I’ve […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical revelation, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, science

Did the biblical concept of God evolve from polytheism to monotheism?

February 1, 2018 by Randal

My 2013 book God or Godless (co-authored with atheist John Loftus) is a collection of twenty short debates. In ten debates I argue for a debate resolution and John argues against it. And in ten debates John argues for his own resolution and I argue against it. That’s the way it was supposed to work, anyway. But […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: accommodation, Bible, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, progressive revelation

Impervious to Reason? On the rhetoric of atheistic fundamentalism

May 7, 2017 by Randal

I haven’t read John Loftus’ most recent book Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End (Pitchstone, 2016). But today I did take a look at what Loftus has to say about me. Here’s the most significant excerpt: “Randal Rauser is an associate professor of historical theology at Taylor Seminary, Edmonton, Canada. He and I coauthored a debate-style […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cognitive bias, delusion, faith, fundamentalism, John Loftus, Unapologetic

Responding to John Loftus’ attack on my co-author Justin Schieber

November 27, 2016 by Randal

As I have already noted, John Loftus has posted the first two installments of what he is calling a “book review” of my new book An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar co-authored with Justin Schieber. Loftus raised the fatuous objection that the topic of debate — God as defined in classical theism — is […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, debate, dialogue, John Loftus, Justin Schieber

Two Early Reviews for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar

November 26, 2016 by Randal

The reviews for An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar are starting to come out. Unfortunately Prometheus sent John Loftus a copy given that he is a Prometheus author. Not surprisingly, he is doing his typical polemical hack job. In the first two installments he largely focused on engaging in ad hominem attacks on Justin […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, John Loftus, Mike D, review

On those who call for an end to philosophy of religion

August 26, 2016 by Randal

As my regular readers will know, I have a book co-authored with Justin Schieber forthcoming in which we debate the existence of God. Debates on the existence of God belong to the field of philosophy known as the philosophy of religion. Thus, Justin and I are engaged in an extended debate within the philosophy of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, John Loftus, philosophy of religion, theism

Can a person be a fundamentalist about atheism?

July 24, 2016 by Randal

The question was posted by Mike D in reaction to my article “Atheist Fundamentalism Lives.” Mike writes: “How can you be a fundamentalist about something that has no doctrines, creeds, or dogmas? That’d be like writing a dissertation about the richness of TV programming on the “off” setting.” Mike goes on to state that atheists […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, fundamentalism, John Loftus, reason

Atheist Fundamentalism Lives

July 22, 2016 by Randal

Over the last year or more I have scrupulously avoided any interaction with the work of John Loftus. But I can’t help myself. When I saw the following blurb for his forthcoming book Unapologetic which comes from Peter Boghossian, I was unable to restrain myself from writing a brief rejoinder. First off, here’s the blurb: Unapologetic offers the Philosophy […]

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

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