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Valerie Tarico

Everyone’s irrational; therefore Christians are irrational (On “The Christian Delusion” Part 6)

July 21, 2013 by Randal

 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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: review, The Christian Delusion, Valerie Tarico

The Edsel of Christianity?

August 17, 2011 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Bible, biblical studies, Christianity, Hector Avalos, inspiration, Jaco Gericke, John W. Loftus, justification, revelation, The End of Christianity, theism, Valerie Tarico

The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 7)

August 17, 2011 by Randal

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” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, God, impassibility, The End of Christianity, theism, Valerie Tarico

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