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September 2021

September 18, 2021

Why Christian Dishonesty Matters

Christians' dishonesty around their lack of evidence matters way more than that lack of evidence...

September 10, 2021

Tacitus: Grabbing at Straws (1st-Century Fridays #12)

Now, let's turn our attention to a source that Christians often reference as PROOF YES...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

How and Why Al Mohler Changed His Mind About Women Pastors

Hi and welcome back! We've been talking lately about the re-erupting squabble in evangelicalism about...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

Grading Evangelists’ Evidence (With Jessica Walter GIFs)

Hi and welcome back! The never-ending fever-dream of 2021 continues apace. This past week, the...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

Afterlife: Picking Up the Pieces After Loss of Belief

Today, let me show you the story of Robert Bigelow's new contest about life after...

January 23, 2021

Afterlife: When the Science Spoke At Last to Me

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I noted that I struggled mightily with my belief in...

May 2020

May 03, 2020

Sean McDowell’s Third Easter Question Also Fails Spectacularly Hard

In this video, Sean McDowell sought to answer three big important questions through the use...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Sean McDowell’s First Big Resurrection Answer Is Hilariously Inept

For Easter, Sean McDowell created a video about the Resurrection. In it, he claimed that...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Confirmation Bias and Angelic Meddling in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #130, Ch. 17)

In this installment, we discover how Frank Peretti's tribe thinks angels create coincidences--and how they...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

The Anti-Pumpkin Spice Super Special! (#13)

Hello and welcome to a Roll to Disbelieve Super Special! Goodness, we're already smack dab in the...

October 10, 2019

Christian Evangelists Keep Asking the Wrong Question

Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist,...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

What Christian Apologetics Actually Accomplish (And the Faith Pool)

The error in Christians' thinking involves what apologetics' goal actually is. We're going to be...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

Why So Many Christians Act Mystified About Their Religion’s False Claims

In the settling dust of apostasy, a few common Christian responses swam into focus. One...

August 10, 2019

Hillsong Songwriter Marty Sampson Has Left the Jesus Building

Marty Sampson, a songwriter for the Christian band Hillsong, recently announced his deconversion on his...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

More (Terrible) Reasons to Believe in Christianity’s God

Truly, there is nothing new under the sun! Recently, I showed you Billy Graham's big...

February 2019

February 18, 2019

Where Mark Driscoll’s Been Lately (LSP #80)

From the beginning, I figured Mark Driscoll began blogging to help bury his disgrace. When...

February 02, 2019

Historicity: Testing the Claims of Christianity

We'll lay out a basic definition of claims and defenses of claims. And we'll start...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

The Attack of the Evangelism Apps!

I downloaded a whole bunch of evangelism apps last week and ran through them. I'll...

May 2018

May 24, 2018

Plot Twist: Even Faith-For-No-Good-Reason Has Very Big Reasons

See, faith-for-no-good-reason doesn't really exist. People who believe things that aren't true actually have reasons for...

May 19, 2018

Stan Gudmundson and His PROOF YES PROOF

By far the biggest dishonesty Stan Gudmundson commits in his LTTE centers on what he...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

Miracle Maxin’: The Ongoing Problems With Miracles

Today, almost five years after Miracle Maxin' debuted, we look back at why miracles are...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

Angelo Stagnaro: Another Creationist Who’s Gotten It Backwards.

We're going to look at Angelo Stagnaro, who wrote a post for a big Catholic...

March 2015

March 08, 2015

The Handbook: Apologetics: Pascal, Ontological, Cosmological

Some of these arguments rise to the level of apologetics classics. Others are painfully cringeworthy modern...

March 06, 2015

The Handbook: An Overview of the Apologetics Field, and Its (Hopeful) End.

We're about to plunge into actual apologetics works and examine their authors' major ideas and...

May 2013

May 11, 2013

Facts and Fictions.

It seems to me like modern culture has long forgotten what "evidence" and "proof" involves....