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October 2013

October 29, 2013

The Bible Says

David Hayward's latest cartoon makes a good point. People have justified all sorts of contradictory...

October 25, 2013

Amazing Grace Book Burning

Via Matthew Paul Turner. One advantage of being Baptist is that you don't have to...

October 07, 2013

Is Being Right the Point of Christianity?

Yesterday in my Sunday school class, we continued a discussion that started last time, sparked...

October 05, 2013

Just Following the Bible

Stuff Fundies Like posted the following gem: I just follow the Bible. I just follow...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Non-Kosher Comfort

P. Z. Myers shared this bit of nonsense from Ray Comfort: I'm not sure whether...

September 30, 2013

N. T. Wright vs. R. C. Sproul and Al Mohler on Evolution

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September 21, 2013

Creationism and Religious Freedom

Today my class on "Religion and Freedom of Expression" met for the first time. It...

September 12, 2013

A Time To Refrain From Speaking

Rachel Held Evans posted an interview with Derek Webb on her blog. It includes the...

September 05, 2013

Fundamentalism and Conspiracy Theories

Jeri Massi has been blogging about the connection between Christian fundamentalism and conspiracy theories. Here...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Everyone is Liberal to Someone

Cliff Kvidahl blogged recently about an accusation of encroaching liberalism that he encountered. What, you...

August 20, 2013

Did NT Authors Think NT Writings Were Inerrant?

There are things which, when you are an inerrantist, never cross your mind, and yet...

August 16, 2013

Rebuttals to Ray Comfort

Hemant Mehta recently shared this video response to Ray Comfort's deceitful movie about evolution. It...

August 11, 2013

Inerrancy vs. Contradictions

Given the title, this post could easily have been about contradictions within the Bible and...

August 09, 2013

Context Changes Meaning

I have often emphasized that fundamentalists do not accomplish what they claim to. Simply repeating...

August 08, 2013

Reading the Bible Without Understanding It

Via Fred Clark, I learned of the wonderful blog Defeating the Dragons, offering one person's...

August 07, 2013

Bible for Brains

It saddens me to realize that some may see David Hayward's latest cartoon and think...

August 07, 2013

Perfect Bible, Imperfect God?

Another quote from a recent Facebook discussion that I thought I would share here: To...

August 07, 2013

Interpreting Scripture in Light of Scripture

I wrote the following in a comment on Facebook and thought I would share it...

August 05, 2013

Objective Ministries

Objective Ministries is clearly a parody site. But it is just close enough to what...

August 05, 2013

Narrow vs. High Standards

Stuff Fundies Like shared this questionnaire that would-be guest speakers at a fundamentalist church have...

August 02, 2013

Blessed Quietness Journal

A colleague drew my attention to one of the funniest things on the internet. There...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Too Conservative

Fred Clark has a post about the fact that conservative Evangelicalism's language gives the impression...

July 19, 2013

Stuck in the Middle

Via Unfundamentalist Christians on Facebook. If you don't get the musical allusion, then you presumably...

July 19, 2013

Skepticism and Religious Fundamentalism

IO9 recently featured an interview with science-promoter Joe Rogan. If you didn't read all the...

July 17, 2013

Fundamentalism and Unfair Mario

Chris Attaway recently suggested that " Fundamentalism...is when social function becomes so important so as to...

July 13, 2013

Antievolutionism vs. Fundamentalism

This image was shared on the God of Evolution Facebook page: It is only because...

July 13, 2013

Self-Sealing Argument

This is from a recent post on the blog Leaving Fundamentalism: From Marianne Talbot, I...

July 04, 2013

Training Jesus

The Gospel of Luke depicts a Jesus who learned. Many fundamentalists view Jesus as someone...

July 04, 2013

How To Win At Bible

Fred Clark has a post about one problematic but very popular approach to using the...

July 01, 2013

Professing Themselves to be Wise…They Failed to Notice the Context of Paul’s Words Before Quoting Them

I recently mentioned the words from Romans, "professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,"...

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