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Status Of Christianity (And Pizza Parlours)
On this day of ultimate sacrifice it's well to ponder the state of our ancient religion. We'll come to no firm conclusions---not in 750 words---but we have to start somewhere.…
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Another Puzzled Atheist Wonders Why Religion Persists
Orientation quiz. True or false: periodically, some societies have gone insane. The answer is True, true with bells on. Many examples will suggest themselves. Thing about these cultural sanitariums is…
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Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogcast Summary Against Modern Thought to bring you breaking news: Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity. In what should have been…
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Jerry Coyne Has A Go At Pope Francis. Shoots Self In Foot
Since it's Halloween, we may as well examine the spooks, hobgoblins, and bogeymen which taunt and haunt the minds of our public undead, which is to say, our intellectuals. Now…
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Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
In the comment section to an earlier piece of mine on Strange Notions, Richard Carrier invited me to "interact" with him through his article "Neither Life nor the Universe Appears…
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From Paganism To Christianity To Deism To Malleism
Pagans---the word is not an insult---believed that God was immanent. If you've seen Star Wars, you have it. "The Force" was God, and The Force was everything. To quote that…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Faith, Proof, & The A Priori
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide. Chapter 5: That those things which cannot be investigated by reason are fittingly proposed to man as an…
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To Coyne A Review: Did Jerry Coyne Really Read David Bentley Hart’s Book?
It took Jerry Coyne a while, but it appears---or rather, I should say there is weak and not overly convincing evidence---that the man has finally read David Bentley Hart's The…