It’s Funny Until Someone Gets Hurt, then it’s Hilarious
I’ve been amazed at the popularity of Creationism/Intelligent Design among Christian pundits. Old-earth Creationism accepts the consensus within the field of cosmology about the Big Bang and the...
View ArticleDon’t Like Abortion? Then Support Sex Education.
There’s a reality disconnect within the pro-life community. They reject abortion while they also reject the solution to abortion, sex education. Is abortion an American Holocaust, as Ray Comfort says?...
View ArticleHomosexuality v. Christianity
2012 is the centennial year of the birth of Alan Turing, a British cryptanalyst central to the project that decoded German Enigma messages during World War II and a pioneer in computer science....
View ArticleBiblical Marriage: Not a Pretty Picture
What does the Bible say about marriage? Jesus said, “A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh” (Mark 10:8). Sounds like today’s conservative...
View ArticleMaybe it Works Better in German
You’d think the reasons would be obvious, but maybe a warning in a severe font will encourage meddling Christians to respect the First Amendment. Related links: “Achtung—Alles Lookenpeepers,”...
View ArticleDoes the Old Testament Condemn Homosexuality?
The Sodom and Gomorrah story is where many Christians point when arguing that God rejects homosexuality. That’s a lot to place on just six verses. Let’s look at them: All the men from every part of...
View ArticleDoes the Old Testament Condemn Homosexuality? (2 of 2)
Last time we looked at the Sodom and Gomorrah story. Let’s move on to the book of Leviticus. You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is an...
View ArticleWhat Does the New Testament Say about Homosexuality?
There are two primary places in the New Testament where homosexuality is a condemned practice. Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the...
View ArticleMarriage—Designed for Procreation?
The most popular argument against same-sex marriage from Christians that I see is that the purpose of marriage is procreation. (It makes me wonder if the only advice they would give a couple...
View ArticleHomosexuality in Nature
Christians often argue that homosexuality is unnatural. That is, the purpose of man/woman sex is clear—it’s what propagates the species. Any other kind of sex simply isn’t using human anatomy for...
View ArticleNational Day of Actually DOING Something
Today is the National Day of Prayer. How about a National Day of Actually Doing Something instead? The president issued the obligatory proclamation today: “Let us pray for all the citizens of our...
View ArticleWhat do Churches Have to Hide?
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a freethought organization that has won some high-profile lawsuits that support the separation of church and state. It is also known for displaying freethought...
View ArticleChurch Accountability
In November, 2007, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked six high-profile televangelist organizations to provide more information about how they work. Grassley said: “My goal is to help improve...
View ArticlePastors Speak Their Mind (and Flout the Rules)
It’s another dreaded election year, and the leaders of many religious organizations somehow feel put upon by the IRS because they can’t preach about politics. But why? No one forced tax-exempt...
View ArticleAre Churches More Like Charities or Country Clubs?
Most churches do good works—soup kitchens, food banks, and so on—so they’re like charities. But they also provide a social connection like a country club. Which is the better fit? Let’s look at the...
View ArticleTen Commandments have no Role in Public
Some Christians have no patience with a separation between church and state and want to display the Ten Commandments in the public square—the state-supported public square. Judge Roy Moore is an...
View ArticleWord of the Day: Public Square
Remember John F. Kennedy’s famous speech assuring the public that his Catholicism would not affect his decisions as president? While Rick Santorum was still a candidate for president, he said about...
View ArticleOld Testament Slavery—Not so Bad?
You’ve probably been there—you’ve read one too many articles claiming that slavery in the Bible is not a big deal, and that biblical slavery wasn’t at all like slavery in America. That’s where I am, so...
View ArticleBiblical Slavery, Part 3
(See Parts 1 and 2 of this discussion.) Let’s conclude this critique of a podcast titled “Sex, Lies & Leviticus” from apologetics.com that responded to Dan Savage’s criticism of the Bible....
View ArticleGay Marriage Inevitable?
A century ago, America was immersed in social change. Some of the issues in the headlines during this period were women’s suffrage, the treatment of immigrants, prison and asylum reform, temperance...
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