My latest (ninth) appearance on Unbelievable, the premier (pun-intended) apologetics radio show and podcast (hosted, as ever, by the ever-affable Justin Brierley) went live today. This time out, I have a friendly debate and dialogue with David Smalley. Smalley is the host of Dogma Debate, a radio and podcast show similar to Unbelievable except that Smalley […]
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What’s wrong with this atheist meme?
A couple people told me they found my last run at this meme too cryptic. So I decided to delete my cryptic post and take another run at the meme to explain the problem. Let’s start with the meme: pic.twitter.com/EobVBLtTPO — Atheist Republic (@AtheistRepublic) September 9, 2017 Interpreting the Meme Let’s begin with the church […]
Bad Atheist Memes: God, Sexuality, and Bacteria
Over the last couple weeks Jeff Lowder has forwarded me a few painfully bad atheist memes. (Keep it up, Jeff! These are always fun for a slow news day.) Here’s the one he tweeted me this morning: https://twitter.com/Atheist_Khan/status/818113221202681857 I replied: “Why? Because human sexuality is of no more moral or ontological significance than bacterial reproduction?” I […]
Minding the Memes
A few days ago Jeff Lowder of “The Secular Outpost” started a new series on “stupid atheist memes”. His first installment was: “If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.” Four years ago I did my own series along similar lines titled “How to Confound Christians with Bad Arguments.” The […]
Why won’t Dawkins stop the spread of Craig’s virulent memes?
I hope this is my last word on the topic of Dawkins’ immoral cowardice in refusing to debate William Lane Craig. But I think it is really important to hammer home the degree to which Dawkins is shirking the responsibility that lies on his shoulders to deal with Craig once and for all. Dawkins has described […]