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2010-10-23T09:05:08-08:00

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What Non-Christians Want Christians To Hear

Last updated on: October 23, 2010 at 9:05 am By John Shore

Here's a small sampling of the responses I got when I asked non-Christians about being on the receiving end of the efforts of Christian evangelicals to convert them. Read more

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2010-10-22T15:29:21-08:00

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Speaking of Burning Buildings

Last updated on: October 22, 2010 at 3:29 pm By John Shore

It’s Friday afternoon. I’m sitting in this place. I am not drunk. But from the edge of my now slightly shimmering consciousness being drunk is very definitely beckoning to me, using as its soft siren the second half of the Hulk-sized mug o’ delicious Karl Strauss Oktoberfest beer insolently poised on my table not a wrist flick away. Whoa. Maybe I am drunk. That seemed like a pretty drunk sentence, didn’t it? (more…) Read more

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2010-10-22T11:02:31-08:00

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Legalizing Immigrants vs. Twelve Dollars for a Head of Lettuce

Last updated on: October 22, 2010 at 11:02 am By John Shore

Lately I have had (as have all of us) reason to wonder if there’s a solution to the problem of Hispanics illegally working and immigrating here. And after reading about and studying the matter, I’ve concluded that there simply isn’t. Here’s the way I’m understanding the matter. As ever, I welcome further enlightenment. We Americans like Hispanics working for as little money as they’re constrained to. We like anyone providing us our goods and services for as cheaply as possible.... Read more

2010-10-21T12:26:52-08:00

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Me, Narrow-Minded, Shallow, and Mean-Spirited? Trust Me: You Have No Idea

Last updated on: October 21, 2010 at 12:26 pm By John Shore

So I’m in a Starbucks—where over the sound system they’re just now playing Sly Stone’s It’s a Family Affair, sung by (I think) Lou Rawls. BRB. I have to ask one of the Starbucks employees if they happen to have sharp knife in the back that I could borrow for just a moment to cut off my ears. Anyway, wanted to say real quick: What I care about is the truth. I don’t care what that truth looks like once... Read more

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2010-10-21T10:50:47-08:00

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Oh, You Insta-haters!

Last updated on: October 21, 2010 at 10:50 am By John Shore

To those perhaps new to my work here: Christians: Don’t Too Readily Dismiss Atheists/Rationalists. (To name just one …. ) Read more

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2010-10-20T22:21:55-08:00

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What Atheists Have Dead Wrong About Religion

Last updated on: October 20, 2010 at 10:21 pm By John Shore

It’s been my experience that a great many atheists are keen on claiming that religion causes war. If people would only stop believing in God, goes the reasoning, there’d be much more peace and love in the world. I want much more peace and love in the world! So let’s carefully consider the idea that without religion that is just what we’d have. To begin, then, we must imagine that no people anywhere in the world have so much as... Read more

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2010-10-20T18:55:38-08:00

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Dance Your Cares Away

Last updated on: October 20, 2010 at 6:55 pm By John Shore

Yeah, baby. Read more

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2010-10-19T12:52:02-08:00

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Sarah Palin, the Truth Called. It Wants Its Books Back.

Last updated on: October 19, 2010 at 12:52 pm By John Shore

Being honest is a good starting point in building trust. — Sarah Palin On a Barnes and Noble display table I yesterday came across a short stack of the paperback edition of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. (You know how at a Barnes and Noble, or at any big bookstore, they have all those books displayed on tables? No one who works at the store decided to put those books where they are. Book publishers pay a great deal of money... Read more

2010-10-18T07:43:53-08:00

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The Joy of Hell

Last updated on: October 18, 2010 at 7:43 am By John Shore

Without hell, what would be left of Christianity? Read more

2010-10-16T08:57:34-08:00

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Why God Allows Evil to Exist (in 300 Words)

Last updated on: October 16, 2010 at 8:57 am By John Shore

One of the primary arguments atheists use in their case against the existence of God is that a compassionate, all-powerful God wouldn’t allow evil to exist in the world. The answer to that problem is simple: it’s people who do evil, not God. What people most often mean by the question, “Why does God allow evil to exist?” is “Why doesn’t God stop people from doing evil?” (more…) Read more

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