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February 2015

February 16, 2015

Fifty Shades of Disagreement: Evangelicals and Feminists on Fifty Shades of Grey

In general, the thing that has evangelicals up in arms over Fifty Shades of Grey...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Men Rape and Women Seduce: John Piper’s Deleted Tweet

Make no mistake about it, Piper is equating men raping with women seducing. Same sin,...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

Opposing Beliefs That Cause Harm

Blogger Kaveh Mousavi of FreeThought Blogs wrote a post yesterday criticizing my recent posts on...

April 2013

April 04, 2013

Rochester University Professor Trivializes Rape of Unconscious People

Steven Landsburg is having himself a fun thought experiment. He doesn't have the visceral reaction...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Forward Thinking: What Do We Owe Our Parents?

Given that one of the ten commandments orders children to honor their parents, Christianity seems...

December 2012

December 17, 2012

The Adventures of Ziggy the Zygote

In my post on how I lost faith in the pro-life movement, I wrote about...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

“When God Closes A Door”

Have you ever heard the phrase "sometimes God closes a door"? It was a common...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

“Humanism” and “Atheism+”: What’s the Difference?

Over the past year, it has become increasingly clear that there are portions of the...

July 2012

July 15, 2012

Answers in Genesis: Are we more moral than God?

This week a read an article in Answers in Genesis' Answers Magazine asserting that if...

May 2012

May 12, 2012

Omniscience, the Trinity, and Free Will: Why I can’t believe

An Answers in Genesis article, "Was the Cross 'Plan B'?", poses the following question: Was...

April 2012

April 06, 2012

Worthwhile Reads: Abortion and Infanticide

Here are a couple articles to make you think: After Birth Abortion: The Pro-Choice Case...

March 2012

March 13, 2012

Prince of Egypt modifies a Bible story

I recently re-watched the 1998 animated movie Prince of Egypt. I've always loved that movie, with its...

March 12, 2012

On Ethics, Atheists, and “Absolute Morality”

As a child, I was taught that atheists had no basis for morality, no ethics,...

February 2012

February 19, 2012

Abortion, Murder, and Smokescreens

Many commenters on my most recent post dealing with abortion expressed skepticism that any anti-abortion...

February 11, 2012

Abortion, Heartbeats, and Souls

Have you see those pictures anti-abortion protesters carry, the ones of aborted fetuses? The idea...

January 2012

January 14, 2012

The “Christianity Makes People Good” Myth

Recently, a Christian friend bubbled to me about her new job at a Christian business,...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

On God, Genocide, Abortion, and Morality

Evangelical and fundamentalist positions on what happens to those who die as infants or children...