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February 2012

February 20, 2012

What the Bible Could Have Said

Via Slacktivist, I came across a post on the Christian blog Exploring Our Matrix that...

December 2011

December 23, 2011

The Problem of the Magi

If you search on "what the Bible says about astrology", you'll get a flood of...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Little-Known Bible Verses: The Holy Kiss

Fred Clark of Slacktivist has been on a tear lately, posting some outstanding articles about...

August 24, 2011

The Biblical Cruelty of Child Beating

In 1877, the great freethinker Robert Green Ingersoll wrote these words about the then-common practice...

March 2011

March 11, 2011

The Financial Ignorance of Religious Texts

Among the many other prohibitions in the Old Testament, there are several verses that prohibit...

March 03, 2011

Yes, Virginia, The Bible Does Teach Hell

Slacktivist, my favorite progressive Christian blog, has been reporting on how the religious right has...

February 2011

February 11, 2011

Book Review: Trusting Doubt

(Author's Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's...

February 07, 2011

The Language of God: Intellectual Dishonesty

The Language of God, Chapter 6 By B.J. Marshall Collins begins Part III of his...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

Weekend Leftovers: November 26

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and if your family is like mine, you've got leftovers...

November 2010

November 27, 2010

New on Ebon Musings: The Origins of Orthodoxy

Over the past several months, I've been writing a lengthy new essay for Ebon Musings....

October 2010

October 14, 2010

Book Review: The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions

(Editor's Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's policy...

October 12, 2010

A Not-So-Complicated Moral

This week in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof has a column titled Test Your...

September 2010

September 10, 2010

Book Review: The Naked Bible

(Editor's Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's policy...

June 2010

June 07, 2010

The Bible’s Failed Covenant

In the entire Old Testament, there are no verses more significant than the ones in...

May 2010

May 18, 2010

God Kills A Baby

By Richard Hollis (aka Ritchie) I'm sure that this title is neither new information nor...

May 10, 2010

The Jewish Prophecy of Exile

In a previous post, "An Unserious Response to the Theist's Guide", I poked fun at...

March 2010

March 11, 2010

God’s Failed Land Promise

In the early chapters of Genesis, Yahweh makes a sweeping promise to Abraham, forefather of...

December 2009

December 09, 2009

Suggestions for the Conservative Bible Project

Although I haven't commented on this previously, I'm sure you've heard of the Conservative Bible...

November 2009

November 30, 2009

A God of Obsessions

In the books of the Torah, Yahweh devotes entire chapters to explaining in exacting detail...

November 03, 2009

New on Ebon Musings: Some Mistakes of Scripture

I realize I haven't updated Ebon Musings much this year. Between writing for Daylight Atheism,...

October 2009

October 05, 2009

Book Review: UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God

(Editor's Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's policy...

September 2009

September 10, 2009

Defending Genocide

Of all the evil verses in the Bible, some of the worst must be the...

August 2009

August 28, 2009

Little-Known Bible Verses: Predestination

One of the most common Christian beliefs, and the one most often appealed to in...

August 03, 2009

The Three Kinds of Theism

If you're an atheist who's setting out to debate religious believers, there are three main...

July 2009

July 20, 2009

The Anti-Semitism of the New Testament

The history of anti-Semitism in the Christian church is a long, sad story. Ironically, this...

July 06, 2009

Book Review: Misquoting Jesus

Summary: An eye-opening look at just how much the text of the Bible has changed...

May 2009

May 06, 2009

Little-Known Bible Verses XIII: Fetuses Don't Count

It's consistently been part of the anti-choice strategy to treat unborn fetuses as separate, autonomous...

March 2009

March 11, 2009

Paul’s Resurrection Creed

In the book of First Corinthians, there's a passage that's frequently cited by Christian apologists:...

March 08, 2009

New on Ebon Musings: Dating the Good News

I've uploaded a new essay to Ebon Musings, "Dating the Good News". This essay attempts...

February 2009

February 17, 2009

Little-Known Bible Verses XII: Communism

"Atheism and communism always seem to go hand in hand," begins a letter to the...