Yesterday CNN kicked dirt in the face of Mother Earth by featuring William Happer on a panel discussion. Happer is a climate change skeptic who — no surprise — “advises” Donald Trump on the environment. In this section he begins by pointing out that CO2 is a gas that occurs naturally in the environment (human […]
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Why Roger Ebert could have given God’s not Dead 2 Four Stars
It should be no surprise that the critics lampooned God’s not Dead 2: it received an abysmal 9% average from Rotten Tomatoes. So why, as my review title suggests, would I think the dearly departed (and dearly missed) Roger Ebert could well have given the film four stars, his highest rating? Simple. Ebert famously reviewed films […]
How the British Humanist Association Promotes Propaganda
This is my second critique of the British Humanist Association video “How do we know what is true?” In my first article on the topic I pointed out how the video tacitly endorses scientism and thereby undermines the value claims upon which humanism is predicated. It is now time to turn to the deeper and […]
Reductionism Propaganda? On the wily ways of the open-minded dogmatist
One of my readers, Mark, forwarded this short video “What is life? Is death real?” and asked for my comment. It’s well worth your time to invest the five minutes to watch it: This is a slickly produced video with a lot of good information. But it is not simply a neutral recounting of the […]
At the risk of beating a dead horse…a look at the “most helpful” review of “God’s not Dead”
It is definitely time to leave the film “God’s not Dead” behind and move on to greener pastures. However, before I do so, I thought it might be worthwhile for us to take a quick look at the “most helpful” review on Amazon.com. As of this morning Amazon has 1168 reviews of the film including 921 reviews […]
Defending the sharper edge: A modest defense of my “God’s not Dead” review
The other day I heard from a reader who took issue with my scathing critique of “God’s not Dead.” He didn’t take issue with the objections I raised to the film per se, but he did object to the unremitting negativity in which I couched the critique. His concern was borne by pastoral concern for those […]
North Korea may be crazy but what are we?
Kim Jong-Il was such a cartoonish buffoon that those familiar with him could watch excerpts from “Team America: World Police” and be fooled into thinking they were watching newsreel footage. Heck, next to the Dear Leader Gaddafi looked like a serious statesman. Some of Kim’s crimes bordered on the ridiculous. In the late 1970s he kidnapped two South Korean film stars and […]
Indoctrination in Focus on the Family’s “The Truth Project”
Friends, Romans, Triablogue Posse, I will be returning later today to some of the comments that are in the threads like overripe fruit laden on the vine. But for now I wanted to draw your attention to a journal article I wrote for Christian Scholar’s Review in 2009 which I just uploaded to the academic […]
