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protest atheism

Is John W. Loftus “dumber than a box of rocks”?

August 13, 2011 by Randal

In The End of Christianity John W. Loftus describes the following Christian belief which he finds very implausible: “That the highest created being known as Satan or the devil, led an angelic rebellion against an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent God … and expected to win. This makes Satan out to be suicidal, inexplicably evil, and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: devil, John W. Loftus, protest atheism, The End of Christianity

On God, leprechauns and really bad analogies

June 29, 2011 by Randal

My first smile this morning occurred as I walked past a looking glass and caught a glimpse of my handsome visage peering back at me.  My second smile came when I read the comment of Curt Cameron (not to be confused with Kirk Cameron) in response to my discussion of protest atheism. Let’s begin by citing […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: analogy, atheism, problem of evil, protest atheism, theodicy

Can an atheist hate God?

June 28, 2011 by Randal

One of my readers, the irrepressible Beetle, thinks not. Beetle writes: “The fundy stereotype of the atheist has the latter hating God. But that is absurd of course, because one would not waste so much emotion on something which one did not believe in.” But is it really absurd? Not according to protest atheism. This […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Dostoyevsky, protest atheism, The Brothers Karamazov, theism

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