Questioning Religion and Pseudoscience

God of Love

God of Love

Jul 12, 2010

When will Christians and Muslims realize that telling a person they will be tortured for all eternity if they don’t convert to your religion will not convince anyone that your God is “good” or a “God of Love”? Muslims should be required to tell potential converts that if they ever LEAVE the faith, they won’t have to wait...

Poor Apologetics 6: “Atheism is Irrational”

Poor Apologetics 6: “Atheism is Irrational”

May 5, 2010

Some Christians and Muslims will claim that simply identifying yourself as an atheist is irrational, because it requires infinite knowledge of the universe in order to assert the non-existence of something.  This argument stems from a misunderstanding about the meaning of the word “atheist” with they are intentionally (and dishonestly) trying to...

Poor Apologetics 5: Kalam Cosmological Argument

Poor Apologetics 5: Kalam Cosmological Argument

May 2, 2010

The Kalam Cosmological argument is an argument that was originally formulated several hundred years ago by Islamic philosophers, it has become a popular argument with modern Christian apologists, most notably William Lane Craig. Unfortunately for the Christian apologists, the argument fails in every possible...

Responding to comments and email

Responding to comments and email

Apr 26, 2010

I receive a lot of email, and hundreds of comments. I don’t have time to respond to all of them in person, but here are some good ones I received recently and wanted to...