NOTE: This post comes to you courtesy of IrishFarmer who’s internet access reliability is tentative. John Loftus, of Debunking Christianity fame, has recently decided to make his way onto YouTube with a small number of videos (here). I won’t bother with his video entitled ‘Bizarre Beliefs: Where is Jesus Now?’, partially because it’s little more…

Child Stoning? Dan Barker commits another common fallacy which he shares in common with both Prof. Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Dan Barker wrote, “How should parents treat a stubborn and rebellious son?…He should be stoned to death.”1 I have written on this subject in greater detail in my essay Planting God More Firmly on…

“Christians Should Not Tithe-Unless…” Dan Barker offered another answer to his own question “According to Jesus, what must you do to have eternal life?” His other answer reads thusly: “Attend church regularly and tithe ten percent of your income to God. -Christian tithing is difficult to support biblically. In Old Testament times, when church and…

The following was written by a guest blogger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Really I’ll try not to hog the blog, after just one more. The empiricism thing needs to be addressed, so here goes. The Atheist’s claim that Atheism is an “empirical decision” is incorrect. Here’s why. There are very few if any literate people in the western…

Atheism Makes Evil Worse: Sadly, Quentin Smith concludes this section of the statements we have been considering by delving into juvenile mockery: “Now the theist might respond that there may be some greater good we don’t know about. But notice the theist says, ‘here may be some greater good we don’t know about.’ ell sure…

Child Sacrifice: Sanctioned and “the right thing to do”? Please pardon my references to having already written responses to various atheist critiques of the Bible and Christianity but their criticisms are not exactly original but appear to be virtually plagiarized. Prof. Richard Dawkins has commented on the following text and I have responded to it…

Filial Misanthropy? In another instance of agreement with Richard Dawkins, Dan Barker wrote: “According to Jesus, how should Christian disciples treat their parents?…Parents should be hated. -More family values from the ‘Good Book.’ ‘If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea,…

Babylon’s Raze Dan Barker and many New Atheist attempt to demonstrate that the Bible is an immoral work from which we subjectively glean what scant good morals are found within it, they claim that we pick and choose. Dan Barker makes reference to Psalm 137 but quotes only the text which states, “Happy the one…

On Jihad and AbortionHaving written on Prof. Richard Dawkins’ untenable correlation between Islamic terrorists and “Christian” abortion “doctor” murderers I was particularly interested in the following statement by Sam Harris: “It seems to me we fail to enlist the friends we have on this subject, when we balance this. I mean, it’s a tactic, it’s…

Alfred Russell Wallace, co-conceiver with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection: “‘I fully accept Mr. Darwin’s conclusion as to the essential identity of man’s bodily structure with that of the higher mammalian, and his descent from some ancestral form common to man and the anthropoid apes,’1 he conceded. However, man’s intellectual powers and…