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August 2018

August 30, 2018

Leaving the Church for Insufficient Reasons (Damon Linker)

Damon Linker is a well-known writer, who used to be the editor at First Things...

August 24, 2018

Novelist Anne Rice’s Deconversion: Straw Men & “Baby / Bathwater”

[see Anne Rice's website and Wikipedia entry]. According to the latter: "On April 14, 2013, Rice stated...

August 23, 2018

Dialogue with Atheist Dr. Jim Arvo, on Deconversion

This exchange took place on the ExChristian.Net site, in response to my critique of the webmaster Dave Van...

August 23, 2018

Critiquing Atheist Deconversions = “Spiritual Predator”?

If one dares to critique an atheist's "deconversion" from Christianity to atheism one will prove...

August 23, 2018

Atheist Joe E. Holman’s Deconversion Story Critiqued

Joe E. Holman used to be a preacher in the fundamentalist Church of Christ denomination....

August 13, 2018

Response to the Deconversion Story of “Anthrotheist”

Words of Anthrotheist: a friendly regular contributor on my blog (he wrote this in a...

August 10, 2018

Reply to the “Deconversion Story” of a Pastor’s Wife

A "deconversion" is a sort of "anti-testimony" story of the odyssey from Christian faith to...

July 2018

July 16, 2018

Dialogue with a Skeptic of Christianity

Charlie Kluepfel is a former Catholic, who still believes in God in a somewhat unorthodox,...

July 05, 2018

Dialogue w Agnostic on Elijah and John the Baptist

***** Agnostic "paul" over at the Debunking Christianity blog has written a piece entitled, "A few questions about...

July 03, 2018

Atheist Botched Biblical Exegesis: Example #4,974

Atheist "BeeryUSA": My story is pretty simple. I escaped from Christianity when I read the...

July 03, 2018

Death of Judas: Alleged Bible Contradictions Debunked

Dave Van Allen runs the large website ExChristian.Net [or at least he did in September 2007,...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

Dialogue on Atheist Bob Hypes’ Deconversion Story

Atheist Bob Hypes started corresponding with me (in a commendably friendly and cordial manner), after...

June 27, 2018

Response to “Religion & How I Lost It” (Bob Hypes)

Bob Hypes' article (that I am replying to) was published in the late atheist Farrell...

June 16, 2018

Atheist John Loftus: “Christians R Idiots” / “Buy My Books!”

This came about in my combox after I posted a critique of a paper by John W....

June 06, 2018

“Debunking Christianity”: Never-Ending Insults of Christianity

***** Debunking Christianity is the website of John W. Loftus: former Christian and now atheist polemicist...

June 06, 2018

Silly, Foolish Atheist John Loftus (“Debunking Christianity”)

John Loftus runs the influential Debunking Christianity blog and has written several books that seem...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Dialogue on Luther’s “Getting to a Gracious God”

Martin Luther struggled with accepting God's grace, his entire life. "CPA" (a Lutheran historian)...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

Assurance of Instant Salvation? / Apostasy / Falling Away

(c. 2000) [Bible Verses: RSV] *** 1 Samuel 18:12 Saul was afraid of David, because the...

November 24, 2017

Luther and the Origin & Nature of “Instant” Salvation

(1991) *** [Martin Luther's words will be in blue] *** 1. Martin Luther's Novel Assurance...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Atheist Anthony Toohey Defends His Deconversion (Pt. 1)

A change of vision by Erik Pevernagie, oil on canvas (3-24-11) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike...

July 20, 2017

Atheist Deconversion: Dialogue #2: Jonathan MS Pearce

Image by "mary1826" (January 2017) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** Jonathan MS Pearce runs...

July 19, 2017

Atheist Deconversion: Dialogue #1 with Dr. Daniel Fincke

Photograph by "marcelabr" (11-8-16) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** Dr. Daniel Fincke, a philosophy...

July 19, 2017

Deconversion: Mini-Debates with Several Zealous Atheists

Photograph by "stevepb" (7-12-16) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] ***** Atheist Jonathan MS Pearce made a...

July 17, 2017

Atheist Deconversion Story Series #2: Lorna

If I were in an abusive situation, I'd certainly want to break free, too. The...

July 17, 2017

Atheist Deconversion Story Series #1: Anthony Toohey

Image by "Pexels" [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** Introduction: "Deconversion" stories are accounts of...

July 15, 2017

Reply to Daniel Fincke’s Analyses of His Deconversion

Cute meme from Dr. Daniel Fincke's "About Dan" page. *** Dr. Daniel Fincke (professor of philosophy)...

June 2017

June 10, 2017

Dialogue w Atheist on Bible Difficulties & Plausibility Structures

One crack in the glass often leads to many more cracks, and eventually the whole...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

“DagoodS” Deconversion Story: Critique & Truncated Dialogue

Photograph by "||read||" (5-28-09) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license] *** (9-20-07) *** "DagoodS" is...

February 2017

February 04, 2017

Dialogue w Calvinist Re: Falling from Grace or Salvation

John Calvin (anonymous: 1550s) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (7-28-09) *** Calvinist "Michael" commented...

January 2017

January 13, 2017

My “Review” of Martin Scorsese’s “Silence”

Japanese Christians In Portugese Costume (17th century painting) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** [spoilers...

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