What Even Is Hermeneutics?

September 16, 2018 No Comments

Jon and Ron talk about interpretation of scripture and the US Constitution and why the founding fathers didn’t know about drones.

Jon talks to Michael Wiseman from the Bible Says What?! podcast about believers’ Biblical knowledge and interpretation.
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Gandalf Or God?! Ron has to guess whether four quotes come from The Lord Of The Rings or The Bible. We’re keeping a running total to see if he can keep his score in positive numbers.

What Even Happened? Jon and Ron talk about their week and what they watched, read, or did that made it not so terrible.
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Book Review, Religion

What Even Is Deism?

June 17, 2018 No Comments

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Fresh from vacation, Jon and Logan talk about vague god concepts, religious masquerades, and the Mad Max scenario of a mega-church the size of an entire country!

Jon reviews “Inside The Atheist Mind” by Anthony DeStefano. DON’T BUY THIS BOOK!

Jon & Logan break down a verse from Exodus about how only Yahweh has the ability to make flies swarm.

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S1E12: What Even Is Apologetics?

October 15, 2017 No Comments

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Show Notes

Jon and Logan discuss bananas, assertions, and logical fallacies (not phalluses).

Jon and Logan talk to Matt Dillahunty about debates, magic, and stupid arguments.
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Jon rants about the apologetics used by 2nd Amendment nuts. “Trigger” warning?

Jon and Logan break down a verse from the Qur’an and learn that unbelievers get chained to giant penises.

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Bible Critique

Examining the Bible: Genesis, Part V

January 12, 2017 No Comments

In Genesis 7, god finally gets down to the killing. If you’re a Christian you view this as a story of love and compassion for a righteous family who trusted god with their lives and eternal souls. If you’re like me you view this as a horrific failure on the part of an inept, morally bankrupt deity. As usual, I have several problems with this story and I’ll discuss them all in detail. Let’s begin!

Religion

Therefore, God

July 5, 2016 No Comments

Theist debaters, in attempts to compete with their non-theist counterparts have developed arguments based on logical rules to explain why they believe (and notice we’re still using the word “believe”) that a god or gods are necessary beings that, in actuality, exist. One such argument is the Kalam Cosmological Argument, which goes like this:

Whatever begins to exist has a cause,
The universe began to exist, therefore,
The universe has a cause.

Personal Testimony

Lowering the Bar

December 11, 2011 No Comments

hen I was a Christian it seemed like everything I saw pointed to the truth of god’s existence. I had the Bible, my parents’ word, my Sunday School teachers and preachers, any number of books and pamphlets, and nature itself bolstering my faith. I felt like I had good reason to believe what I did and I didn’t even have to look for evidence: everything was evidence!

That is, until I actually started examining my beliefs and my reasons for holding them. What I found was not that the evidence for god was strong, but that I was willing to accept pretty much anything as evidence so long as it adhered to my preconceptions. Those things that didn’t conform to my beliefs were simply ignored without any thought at all.

Christian evidence — Christian? Evidence? Hmmm.

Personal Testimony

Who Makes the Rules?

November 16, 2011 3 Comments

was always taught as a child that god was in charge. He was the ultimate authority, the first and last word on any subject, and the law. He took orders from nobody and had nobody to whom he had to answer. God made the laws of nature and he could break them any time he wanted. There was absolutely nothing he couldn’t do. Then I read the Bible.

At many points in the Bible god is seemingly forced to take some kind of drastic action to intercede in his creation and at every one of these points he chooses (or must choose) the most elaborate, ineffective, and sometimes flat-out silly means. It seems that every time he has to step in and take action he’s constrained by the Hollywood villain code of monologuing and setting up a trap that’s just way too complex to work. Here are some examples:

Personal Testimony

Debunking Myself!

August 25, 2011 1 Comment

I was emptying out a three-ring binder yesterday and found a paper I had written on August 3, 1999 for a Philosophy 1100 class at Webster University. I still considered myself a Christian in 1999 and it wasn’t until the following year that I even entertained the idea that I might be agnostic or an (gasp!) atheist. I’ll continue to document that journey through my regular posts, but I wanted to take a moment to transcribe this paper and show that even I, on the verge of a huge shift in worldview, could cling to the most outrageous and fallacious arguments in the hopes of retaining that failing grasp on a faith that had, for most of my life, defined me. In a strange and somewhat satisfying twist I’ll address my own faulty reasoning and debunk myself. Enjoy!