Religious

Archive for Religious

Yet Another Odd Complaint Against Religion

There’s a new thingie (I refuse to use the word “meme”) floating around Facebook telling the story of a new pastor who dresses as a homeless man and goes to his new church, with only the church elders in on the secret. As you might expect, he is shunned by his new flock, and the […]

Atheist Libertarians Need to Stop Citing Adam Smith Against Christians

A common complaint in the comments of this blog runs like this: “Bob, how can you possibly believe in a central planner in the sky, when you understand spontaneous order from economics? Man, even Adam Smith wrote that the market works ‘as if’ led by an invisible hand, but that was just a metaphor!” Perhaps […]

It’s All Or Nothing When It Comes to Gifts From God, or Else We Hate Him

The danger in my last post is that atheists will say, “OK fair enough, Steve Landsburg was a little off in his joke about Catholics. But c’mon, the 30,000-foot view is still fine: It’s absurd when religious people ‘praise God’ for miraculous cures. Why doesn’t He cure everybody, why pick and choose? And c’mon, what […]

Atheists Can Mock Religion With Half Their Brain Tied Behind Their Back

I debated whether making this post, but what the heck. First, a disclaimer: I know Steve Landsburg “was just kidding” with this recent post about John Paul II being canonized. I’m not bringing it up to pout; I’m not even Catholic (anymore). But I still think it epitomizes an ironic trend among very confident atheists. […]

It Helps to Know the Author

UPDATED below. My son and I have been reading the Harry Potter books (we’re on the 5th one now), and we also recently spent 12 hours together in the car, driving to my parents’ house. My son was asking me to give a meta-analysis (not his term obviously) of the series, since he wanted to […]

Jason Lisle on CNN

Jason Lisle, a PhD astrophysicist who now works for the Institute for Creation Research, appeared on CNN after Dr. Paul Broun Jr. (R-Georgia) got in trouble for saying the secular theory of evolution he learned in medical school was “lies straight from the pit of hell.” In this blog post, Lisle walks through how biased […]

How Strongly Do Believers Believe?

David Friedman had a post recently asking this question. I didn’t have a problem with David’s thoughts, but one commenter struck me who wrote: I find it utterly fascinating that most people who believe there is a heavenly paradise to reward the virtuous in the afterlife, nevertheless think the death of a virtuous person or […]

That’s My King!

I have to be really brief (my home internet is out). Let me post my favorite short video, which you will probably see quarterly from me if you are a regular reader.