In this article I’m going to focus on the claim of the Reasonable Doubts doubtcasters that Christian doctrines are “clearly false”. The topic arises from the statement of a doubtcaster in my blog that: “in past episodes [of the podcast] we have certainly referred to Christian doctrines as ‘bullshit’ meaning ‘clearly false’.” Before continuing, let me […]
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Is Christianity a big ship of fools? Another response to Reasonable Doubts
In “Why John Loftus and Reasonable Doubts shouldn’t be laughing” I offered a two-part critique of the Reasonable Doubts podcast. The first part was a general critique that the tone of the show adopts a condescending attitude toward Christians (and other “religious” people) which is uncharitable and unhelpful. The second part was a critique of […]
Why John Loftus and Reasonable Doubts shouldn’t be laughing
Today I was listening to the latest Reasonable Doubts podcast which featured an interview with John Loftus. (You can listen to it here.) I have listened to many RD podcasts and it has been a good discipline. And it does take discipline to listen to four ideologues repeatedly refer to Christianity and religion as “bullshit”. […]
Violence and the Canonical Bible: A Response to Reasonable Doubts
Back in February 2013 Reasonable Doubts (henceforth RD) responded to a critique I’d written of one of their episodes. (You can read my critique here.) Their response was titled “Response to Randal Rauser’s critique of episode 110.” I promised to reply shortly to their rebuttal but alas I failed to keep my word. (Middle of […]
Why they don’t believe: Justin Schieber
Today I’m initiating a new series simply titled “Why they don’t believe.” Each is borne out of an invitation to a well-established internet atheist and/or skeptic to share his reasons for rejecting Christianity (or theism). I invited each to write a paragraph on the topic with my initial intention being to collate them in a […]
Lessons in Partisan Broadcasting: A Response to “Reasonable Doubts”
This week the atheistic / skeptical podcast “Reasonable Doubts” (henceforth RD) devoted a significant portion of their program to providing a response to my critique of John Allister’s defense of the Amalekite genocide as well as my alternative proposal for reading violence texts that I lay out in a presentation on the imprecatory psalms. You can find the episode […]
