For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot re….

I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I mus….

The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmoniz….

The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If t….

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after….

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years..

I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, h….

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradic….

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that whic….

Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions..

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial ….

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad….

It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholar….

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment ….

It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Chr….

Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there ….

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The ….

But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamental….

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood..

My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up c….