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What can we learn from the Covington Boys Controversy?

January 22, 2019 by Randal

Like many people, I was outraged at what *appeared* to be the overt disrespect and racism from the “Covington Boys” toward Vietnam vet Nathan Phillips. I described my visceral reaction in the article, “A Word on Behalf of the Idiots.” In that article, I assumed the moral culpability of the young men and then offered a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Covington Boys, judgment, prejudice, You're not as crazy as I think

Are Gay People More Likely to be Pedophiles?

August 17, 2018 by Randal

Christians have long associated homosexuality with pedophilia. In an article titled “Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation,” Gregory Herek (Professor of Psychology at UC, Davis) observes that this kind of association is part of a common pattern of marginalizing outgroups: “Members of disliked minority groups are often stereotyped as representing a danger to the majority’s most […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: homosexuality, pedophilia, prejudice

Are Positive Stereotypes Immoral?

January 14, 2018 by Randal

This past week Donald Trump invited universal condemnation (leaders of the GOP excepted) for his blatantly racist and crude remarks about Africa and Haiti. Those comments were presumably borne by pernicious racial and cultural stereotypes. Trump’s apologists have replied in part by stressing the fact that he is okay with immigrants from Asia. This invites […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Donald Trump, prejudice, stereotypes

All Lives Matter. But Black Lives Still Matter.

July 11, 2016 by Randal

Jones says “Black lives matter.” Smith replies “All lives matter” in a not-so-subtle rebuke. Apparently Smith was interpreting Jones as saying “Only black lives matter.” Such a response suggests to me that Smith has a tin ear. Jones is surely not saying “Only black lives matter.” Rather, Jones is saying “Black lives matter too.” Or, more fully, “Black lives matter just as much […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Black lives matter, prejudice, social justice

Misoatheism: A New Label for Anti-Atheist Prejudice

October 24, 2015 by Randal

Edward Feser has continued his critical exchange with Greg Koukl in “Repressed knowledge of God? Part II.” Feser and I agree on the key point that “not all atheism stems from intellectual dishonesty.” Koukl, by contrast, insists that atheists are actively, willfully suppressing their innate disposition to believe in God in analogy with a person […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: bigotry, misoatheism, prejudice, Rebellion Thesis

Why the Friendly Atheist is Wrong. Or, for goodness sake, just thank goodness

December 12, 2014 by Randal

Jeff Lowder pointed out to me that The Friendly Atheist has posted another article today (by Rachel Ford) about the infamous prayer discount. It is titled “The Daily Show Was Wrong to Imply That Addressing a Minor Act of Discrimination Was Petty“. I begin with a key passage from the article: “discrimination is discrimination. It doesn’t […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, discrimination, prejudice, the Friendly Atheist

The Atheist as Neighbor

October 14, 2014 by Randal

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I am currently working on two books. I have now contracted the second book with the Cascade imprint of Wipf and Stock. In Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Rethinking Christian Attitudes Toward Atheists I take up the discussion I started in chapter 10 of You’re not as Crazy as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, prejudice, The Atheist as Neighbor

People who ride scooters aren’t all wusses

December 17, 2013 by Randal

Motorcyclists tend to look down on those who ride scooters. Unless you’ve got a Vespa and you live in Sicily, scooters just ain’t cool. And everybody knows, therefore, that scooter riders are wusses. Right? Gee, now I’m not so sure. You see, a few weeks ago I was sitting outside McDonalds (see comedian Jim Gaffigan talk […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: humor, prejudice

Randal Rauser is not someone who it’s possible to have any sort of rational discussion about religion with

June 29, 2013 by Randal

A couple weeks ago I had a bit of a dust up with Chris Hallquist which culminated in my article “Chris Hallquist, fundamentalism, and prejudice against Christian apologists.” Now Chris has fired back. Has he ever! His article opens like this: “I don’t think I’m going to be able to get through writing this post if I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Chris Hallquist, prejudice

Come on, stomp on Jesus! Do it!

March 26, 2013 by Randal

Bilbo sent me a link for a  news article titled “Professor Makes Students ‘Stomp on Jesus’“. For those of you not sufficiently motivated to click the hyperlink I provided here’s the quick scoop: a prof at a university in Florida asked his students to write the word Jesus on a piece of paper in an […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: discrimination, Jesus, prejudice

Are the fat the last socially permissible prejudice?

November 18, 2012 by Randal

On the flight back from Milwaukee on Friday I sat beside a grossly obese lady. Or rather, she sat beside me (much to my dismay, I must admit). In a process that looked enormously painful and seemed to take every ounce of her strength she heaved herself between the narrow seats of that purgatory we […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: obesity, prejudice

Reflections on Jewsday: A Response to Paul Manata

January 20, 2012 by Randal

Paul Manata’s most recent attempt to deflate my critique of the Cleveland Indians branding has left the fact that I’m a Canadian in the background and shifted to focus on a reductio.  Paul points out that cultural stereotypes proliferate about Italians. So then if stereotypes about Indians are “bad” presumably then stereotypes about Italians are bad […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: prejudice, racism, stereotype

Can N.T. Wright save Paul the Apostle?

June 7, 2011 by Randal

Wisdom would counsel I not return to Paul, Titus, and the whole “Cretan fiasco”. [An aside: if Paul were a twenty-first century politician this affair would probably be dubbed “Cretangate” by the media.] But then I got a photocopied excerpt from an N.T. Wright commentary on Titus handed to me by my pastor and I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Apostle Paul, Cretan, inerrancy, inspiration, N.T. Wright, prejudice, Titus

On slurring Cretans and Indians

June 1, 2011 by Randal

Happily ensconced within my hotel in South Bend, Indiana and with a couple hours until this evening’s reception, I have decided to avail myself of a bit of blogging. I’ll focus on responding to a key excerpt from davidstarlingm’s defense of Paul’s comments on the Cretans in Titus 1:12-13: Paul was telling Titus to rebuke those people, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethnicity, inerrancy, inspiration, Paul, prejudice, racism, Titus

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