This is the sixth installment in my extended review of The Christian Delusion which was originally published at “The Christian Post” in 2010. * * * We now turn to the second chapter of The Christian Delusion, Valerie Tarico’s “Christian Belief through the lens of cognitive science,” 47-64. The first thing to note is that […]
Valerie Tarico
The Edsel of Christianity?
I have now completed Part II of The End of Christianity, a section which aimed through the essays of Hector Avalos, Jaco Gericke and Valerie Tarico, to establish on biblical grounds why Christianity needs to end. At this point I’d like to take a look back at the section by identifying a set of assumptions […]
The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 7)
Chapter 6 of The End of Christianity brings us to Valerie Tarico’s essay “God’s Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is Hopelessly Human”. While the argument of the essay is not altogether clear, it would appear that Tarico hopes to extend Jaco Gericke’s assault on the biblical portrayal of God by arguing that the presence of “human” […]
