Imagine if I taught my children the following: “Kids, if you don’t believe in my version of reality, then one night while you are sleeping, the Flying Spaghetti Monster will visit you in bed and strangle you to death with one of his noodley appendages.” What if I taught my…
Apologist Tom Gilson, writer of the self-consciously titled Thinking Christian blog, claims that atheists aren’t truly consistent with their reasoning and are internally incoherent. He is currently making this assertion a frequent theme throughout his posts, and is promoting a book titled True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenge of…
After my children were born when I was in my late thirties, I attempted to reacquaint myself with Christianity, the religion I practiced when I was younger. I read the Bible from cover to cover, and read books by C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell. I soon became shocked and disappointed…
For the record, I get angry sometimes. I’m only human, after all. It has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t believe in god. I’m sure the so-call “Four Horseman” or “New Atheists,” as Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the recently deceased Christopher Hitchens, are called,…
