Category: atheism
Missing the Point on Bill Nye
| May 1, 2017 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, Malthusians, morality, politics, pro-life, Progressives, scientism, Secular Humanism |
Judging from my Facebook home feed, Bill Nye has (once again) said some things monumentally stupid. As I scanned the episodes in his Netflix series “Bill Nye Saves the World,” I was reminded of Joel Achenbach’s March, 2015, National Geographic article titled, “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?” Achenbach says something very revealing about […]
Why I love the Commercialization of Christmas
| December 20, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, General |
Every year about this time there are complaints about the commercialization of Christmas. I think even my hero, C.S. Lewis had some cynical things to say about it. No doubt, it is ironic and even scandalous that the ‘reason for the season’ is often only a pretext for people and businesses to make a load […]
It is not Us vs. Them; it is Reality vs. Unreality
| November 8, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, Holocaust, human rights, Islam, politics, Progressives, Secular Humanism |
I am writing this before we know who the next president of the United States is so that readers understand that the issues I’m raising are not tied to the election, even if they are manifested within it. References to politics are for illustration only. ———— In America, politics often falls along distinct lines: Republican […]
An Apology for Apologetics: The Church Response (part 4)
| September 19, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, family, General, Secular Humanism |
Stand by to be shocked by a statement of fantastic obviousness…
An Apology for Apologetics: The Rise of the Naturalism Fallacy (part 3)
| September 14, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, General |
This is the third essay of musings, organizing my thoughts for an upcoming presentation. In the first essay, I showed that the rise of the ‘religious nones’ within just the last decade or so is massive, and provided data that supports what most of us already knew: most of these were raised in the Christian […]
An Apology for Apologetics: Musings (Part 1)
| September 6, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, C. S. Lewis, General |
What is considered ‘apologetics’ is construed very narrowly for many people–too narrowly.
What Sin Really Is and Why Acknowledging It Offers More Reason to Live than Denying It Exists
| March 25, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog |
I had an interesting conversation recently with an atheist. Essentially, the atheist built a syllogism (with a little helpful prodding by myself) where he accepted both of the premises, and then refused to complete it. It was pure logic–but he wouldn’t accept it. The irony, of course, is thick. He believes atheists are the masters […]
An Unexpected Reason Why Apologetics Fails
| February 18, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, General, Jesus, Love, politics, Progressives, Secular Humanism, spirituality, taxation, theology |
I have been involved in Christian apologetics for a little over 20 years, with about 7 years of ‘professional’ church work under my belt. I’ve had many, many conversations with unbelievers, online and off. Many, if not most, were not raised as atheists, but were former Christians. We tended to focus on argument and evidence […]
Solving the Islamicist Problem Once and For All, Part 7, The Rampart, B: Embracing the First Amendment
| February 16, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, General, Islam, philosophy, politics, Secular Humanism |
In Part 7.A of this series, I tried to explain some of the features of a Christian culture that made it a ‘bulwark’ against Islamicism. Opponents of this perspective nearly always interpret such statements to mean, “Christians are better people, and that’s why…” but that’s no where near the real argument, which is, “All people […]
More Atheistic Hubris that Amounts to the Death of Knowledge
| February 1, 2016 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Bible Reliability, Blog, General, philosophy, scientism, Secular Humanism, theism, theology |
One of the things that led me to reject atheism is the realization that most of its arguments, if true, mean that we couldn’t possibly know its true. It violates what I call “the Golden rule of Epistemology,” which means, basically, “any epistemological approach that undermines epistemology itself must be rejected out of hand.” I […]
Solving the Islamicist Problem Once and For All
| November 16, 2015 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, General, Islam, Jesus, Liberalism, Obama, politics, Secular Humanism, theism, theology |
Evidently the talking points are out, since I have now heard multiple individuals, especially those of Democrat persuasion, opine that ‘We have been bombing Iraq for 20 years so obviously that doesn’t work!’ Under their breath, they take a jab at GW Bush… as if he was president 20 years ago. But it is not […]
The Gospel According to Gun Control
| October 14, 2015 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, gun control, gun rights, morality, politics, pro-life, Progressives, Secular Humanism, spirituality |
On the face of it, liberal arguments for gun control are utterly irrational, with no redeeming value whatsoever, except, perhaps, the good intentions that we charitably allow are genuine. The internal inconsistencies of the arguments, and the complete detachment from reality that they represent, leave one baffled. The position can be understood, however, if you […]
Kim Davis vs Gavin Newsom, Liberalism vs the Rule of Law
| September 4, 2015 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, End Times, family, General, homosexuality, morality, philosophy, politics, Progressives, Secular Humanism |
One of the reasons why Republicans have associated their party with the elephant is because the elephant is known to have a long memory. These days, when the public’s attention spanned has dropped below that of a goldfish… literally… what counts as a ‘long memory’ means being able to recollect what happened a couple of […]
The Little Black Book: How to be Gay without Killing Yourself and Others
| March 30, 2015 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, evolution, family, General, homosexuality, human rights, Liberalism, manhood, marriage, morality, original sin, philosophy, politics, pro-life, Progressives, Secular Humanism |
One day you wake up and you realize that a vast number of our fellow citizens simply do not live in the same universe as we do. You cannot persuade people who live in this alternate universe. They are as beyond our reach as one universe is beyond the reach of another universe in the Multiverse. They must instead be out-voted.
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