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Rebellion Thesis

Strawmanning Atheists: A Critique of Frank Turek

July 22, 2021 by Randal

Frank Turek claims that atheists “steal from God.” In this video, I explain how Turek’s argument is based on a strawman of atheistic and a very uncharitable metaphorical framing of atheism conceptual reflection in terms of criminal theft. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Frank Turek, Rebellion Thesis, strawman

Deconstructing a Frank Turek Tweet

May 8, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I explain how a recent tweet from Frank Turek unfairly stigmatizes people who deconvert from Christianity as being motivated by a desire to justify a particular type of ‘sexual behavior’. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Frank Turek, Rebellion Thesis

Do Atheists Hate God?

August 13, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis

Fundamentalism sells … and moderation is a voice crying in the wilderness

August 9, 2016 by Randal

Last year I was interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio show The Firing Line with Michael Brown to talk  about my then new book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? It was a very enjoyable interview and surprisingly Brown didn’t really push back on my thesis despite the fact that he is a Christian conservative. Nor was Brown the only […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Michael Brown, Ray Comfort, Rebellion Thesis

The A-Unicornist reviews Is the Atheist My Neighbor?

March 30, 2016 by Randal

Here is a link to another review of Is the Atheist My Neighbor? by an atheist, in this case The A-Unicornist. As with the previous review by Ed Buckner, this one is also very positive.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis, The A-Unicornist

The Atheist and the Antitheist: The Lecture

March 20, 2016 by Randal

Here is my 2016 FaithLife Lecture on the Atheist as Neighbor delivered at Concordia University in Edmonton, Canada. I previously posted the paper which is titled “The Atheist and the Antitheist: A Critical Analysis of the Rebellion Thesis.” But for those who prefer watching to reading (plus there is some Q&A following)…

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: antitheism, atheism, Concordia University, Rebellion Thesis

Do atheists marginalize God? Do apologists marginalize atheists?

March 1, 2016 by Randal

Jeff Lowder just sent me a link to an article titled “Evidence for the Romans 1 Suppression Thesis” from a blog called Investigative Apologetics. As you might have guessed, what the “Investigative Apologist” refers to as the “Suppression Thesis” is what I refer to as the “Rebellion Thesis.” In short, it is the idea that atheists […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Investigative Apologist, Rebellion Thesis, Romans 1

The Irrationality of Anti-Theism: A response to Paul Beach

February 23, 2016 by Randal

Faithful listeners to my podcast will be familiar with Professor Paul Beach as one of two guests on Podcast episode 84. Is belief in God rational? A Christian and atheist in debate. On that podcast Paul provides a spirited defense of atheism and the irrationality, as he sees it, of theism. Today Paul posted a comment in reply […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: anti-theism, atheism, Paul Beach, rationality, Rebellion Thesis, theism

The Testimony of Atheist Converts to Christianity

February 19, 2016 by Randal

Philosopher Stephen Graham just posted an article titled “Are There Any Honest Atheists?” which engages with my book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? Graham and I are of one mind on this topic, so I don’t have any points of critique to raise. However, I do want to highlight two points that Graham makes. The implausibility […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Rebellion Thesis, Stephen Graham

The Atheist and the Antitheist

February 2, 2016 by Randal

This is a PDF (without footnotes) of the paper I delivered as the 2016 FaithLife Lecture at Concordia University in Edmonton on January 26th. The paper is titled “The Atheist and the Antitheist: A Critical Analysis of the Rebellion Thesis.” While the paper shares common ground with my book Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, it offers […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, dialogue, Rebellion Thesis

Read Chapter 1 of Is the Atheist My Neighbor?

January 10, 2016 by Randal

It’s been awhile since I talked about my book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? That’s the same book that received this stellar endorsement from J.L. Schellenberg who is perhaps the leading atheist philosopher of religion in the world today. Schellenberg wrote: “There are some whose way of following the first of the great commandments has, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, dialogue, doubt, Is the Atheist My Neighbor?, Rebellion Thesis, skepticism

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

Koukl responds to Feser and I respond to Koukl

October 20, 2015 by Randal

Greg Koukl has offered a response to Edward Feser’s critique of his 2 minute video on the Rebellion Thesis. You can read “Koukl Responds” here. In turn, I posted a comment in response to Koukl’s essay which I have reposted below. * * * It is difficult to know where to begin with Koukl’s comments. So let […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Greg Koukl, Rebellion Thesis

Slandering atheists

October 18, 2015 by Randal

The other day blogger Wintery Knight wrote an article in support of R.C. Sproul’s book If there’s a God, why are there atheists? According to Sproul, atheism is (always) the product of sinful rebellion. In short, atheists refuse to submit to the revelation that God has provided to them. Sproul is among the foremost defenders of the “Rebellion Thesis” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, bigotry, Rebellion Thesis, Wintery Knight

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