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October 2012

October 30, 2012

Around the Blogosphere: The Varieties of Fundamentalisms

Here's a round-up of some blogging on several topics of longstanding interest: Michael Pahl is...

October 05, 2012

Fundamentalism’s Final Arbiter

I could not find the original source of the quotation, but presume that it is...

October 02, 2012

The Bible, Inspiration, and Fundamentalism

Chris Heard was "inspired" by a recent blog post of mine to share some thoughts...

September 2012

September 11, 2012

Fundamentalists Lacking Conviction

Robin Parry has a post on the blog Running Heads entitled "Fundamentalists - Have the...

September 08, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Believe That Creation Was Finished in Six Days

I have been having an interesting conversation on Facebook with someone who describes himself as...

September 03, 2012

Fred Clark on What Differentiates Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Ken Ham and Ralph Reed from Sun Myung Moon

Here's what Fred Clark had to say in a post today: I think...Moon is the...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

God’s Wrath Poured Out on Satan-Infiltrated GOP?

I can't understand why the only people who have been saying that God is judging...

August 23, 2012

Mined Quote from James Barr

There's a quote, attributed to James Barr, which is popular among young-earth creationists. Here is...

August 20, 2012

Quotes on Inerrancy

There were several quotes that I wanted to share, all related to inerrancy, and so...

August 18, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Substitute Words of Men in Place of the Word of God

Time and time again I have heard young-earth creationists say that one has to choose...

August 12, 2012

Ken Ham Reads the Bible Like an Atheist (and he’s proud of it!)

Richard Mason Williams Jr. drew the following quote from Ken Ham's Facebook page to my...

August 03, 2012

Inerrancy and Literalism: Quote of the Day (Theodore M. Vial)

Contemporary conservative Christian exegetes claim both inerrancy and literalism as hermeneutical principles, but will always...

August 01, 2012

Before The Bible Was Written

On Facebook I came across this funny depiction of what the first Christians had to...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

Conversations around the Blogosphere

There are several posts around the blogosphere related to topics of conversation here, some of...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

The Disciples’ Field Trip

The theme of yesterday's service at my church was the story in Mark 2:23-28. My...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

The Wedding/Fight between the Bible and Questions

David Hayward posted the above cartoon today. When I first saw the priest bringing the...

May 13, 2012

Jezebel in Thyatira: Join Our Sunday School Class to Learn the Deep Teachings of Satan!

Today in my Sunday school class we continued our study of Revelation. In looking at...

May 07, 2012

Time for the End of the Sectarian University?

Churches have long been instrumental in the establishment of universities. Some of the most prestigious...

March 2012

March 03, 2012

Does Reading the Bible Lead to Atheism? Does Losing Faith Save one from Fundamentalism?

Hemant Mehta shared this cartoon about the year after the "Year of the Bible" in...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Biblicism in a Single Image

David Hayward has created yet another excellent cartoon: The irony, of course, is that many...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Rick Santorum’s Educational Hypocrisy

Lots of people have mentioned Rick Santorum's outrageous anti-education statement. He said, “It’s no wonder...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

Answers in Racketeering (Does Ken Ham Think Noah Was a Millionaire?)

P. Z. Myers drew attention to the fact that the infamous Answers in Genesis has...

December 18, 2011

Controversial Christmas Carols

In groundbreaking but controversial research, historians are challenging this historicity of the account of the...

December 07, 2011

Fundamentalism Meets Sci-Fi: Truth, Falsity and Fiction

The latest in Cake or Death's series going through the A to Z of modern...

December 01, 2011

Slippery Slopes All Around

I have written several contradictory things over the years about the notion of a slippery...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Ways to Undermine Christianity

You might think that this is a post about what atheists or proponents of other...

November 26, 2011

The Bible Is Offensive…To Christians, Apparently

Sam's Club pulled The Brick Bible from its stores after complaints. And according to a...

November 03, 2011

Why is Ken Ham Believed?

That question, "Why is Ken Ham believed?", is an important, insightful and puzzling one raised...

October 2011

October 26, 2011

If You Are Confident You Understand the Whole Bible, You Are Either Dishonest or Have Not Been Paying Attention When Reading It

This was posted at Stuff Fundies Like, together with a reflection on tactics fundamentalists use...

October 14, 2011

Pete Enns on the Inconsistent Literalism of alleged “Biblical Literalists”

Pete Enns' blog has moved to Patheos, as regular readers of it will know. Take...

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