Pseudoarchaeology holds a special place in the hearts of Christians who think the Bible contains real history. After all, this is the one discipline that should attest best to their claims about Jesus and his earliest followers—as well as demonstrate the veracity of the mythic tales contained in the Old Read more…
Last time we met up, I noted that our guest-starring Creationists didn’t like the scientific method. They didn’t like it because it involves deductive reasoning. See, these two Creationists vastly prefer inductive reasoning, and a very strange form of it at that. Today, let’s explore why they prefer it, why real Read more…
My goodness, a mere two days after roasting apologetics as hucksterism intended for evangelicals alone, I learn about a huge apologetics conference that recently happened. As I read the descriptions, I broke out laughing over and over again. Oh my. This was something, all right. Let’s dive into this conference, see Read more…
Hot on the heels of discussions about doubt and divinely-recommended computer monitors, I found us an evangelical talking about how the tribe can feel certainty about their beliefs being true (archive). We’ve talked about this particular guy and his incompetent apologetics before. But today, he’s trying something different. He’s trying Read more…
Last time we met up, I showed you an evangelical who very solidly considered faith and belief as choices people can decide to make. In the end, that evangelical decided that he’d choose faith and belief. As reasoning, he presented a strawman version of life without Christianity. After considering this Read more…
Last time we met up, we talked about a post written by Ron Tewson (archive) about dealing with doubt. In its first paragraph, he talks about being a Christian because his god gives him shiny things all the time. But then, he brings up a number of reasons why Christians Read more…
With their increasing appreciation for the Catholic concepts like the imago Dei, today’s modern evangelicals take another step closer to fusing with hardliner Catholics. Two of those evangelicals recently offered (archive) some false and unsupportable claims about the effects of adopting this doctrine. Today, let’s explore those claims—and see how they Read more…
A recent story in Baptist Press (archive) caught my eye with a reference to a self-proclaimed nontheist. It seemed like such a strange way to refer to someone who holds no religious beliefs or affiliations. That observation led me through a rabbit hole of evangelical contempt for non-believers. When their religion’s Read more…
I can see, then, why so many TRUE CHRISTIANS™ want to turn faith into a feeling rather than measuring it through compliance. This move eliminates compliance as a tangible measurement of faith. That’s good, since most Christians could never qualify as faithful that way.
Unlearning all the faulty logic and pseudoscience I’d learned while Christian was tough. But I had a much tougher time with unlearning how I’d learned how to learn and what knowing something actually means. I’d thought I had a handle on how to assess and absorb knowledge, but I was completely wrong.