Today, let me show you what happens when a Christian suffering from doubts collides with the tribe’s collective wisdom about dealing with doubters.
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Hitchens’s Razor vs Bayes’s Theorem
John W. Loftus has just endorsed my forthcoming book on the Resurrection in the following manner: Hitchens’s Razor, not Bayes’s Theorem, is the proper tool to use against the “absolute baselessness” of the resurrection belief (per David F. Strauss, as quoted in this book). There’s no objective evidence for it. The testimonial evidence is abysmally […]
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‘Logical Christians’ and the Great Divorce Between Beliefs and Behavior
Hi and welcome back! For the past few days, we’ve been talking about a theme: the way toxic people cultivate a complete divorce between their beliefs and their behavior, between fantasy and reality. Indeed, a vast number of Christians consider themselves to be very logical people who only adopted their various (contradictory) opinions as a […]
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Today’s Interview on WLC, the Resurrection, Faith, Evidence & Belief
Here is the interview I had today with Andy Hall. As ever, I really enjoyed this: Let me know what you think. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy some of my awesome ATP merchandise! Please… It justifies me continuing […]
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Pearced Off! #10 – How Much Evidence To Believe in God Is Twisting Your Arm?
I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to keep you company outside of Netflix and the […]
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The Resurrection: What We Do and Don’t Have
John Loftus’s The Case Against Miracles (UK) is looking like it should be a cracker of a book as an anthology of chapters from different authors presenting a very strong case against the notion of miracles. I am loving his own chapter on the Resurrection (“The Resurrection of Jesus Never Took Place”), for obvious reasons (many of […]
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Examining Claims of MLM Success Amid the Pandemic
Lately, we’ve been talking about some recent developments in the world of multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs). I find those developments interesting because of the great number of similarities between MLMs and Christianity. Now we’ll zero in on one of the biggest areas of overlap: wild claims of success. Today, I’ll show you some of those claims, and what support exists for them.
Posted inThe Secular
Doesn’t It Take Just as Much Faith to Be an Atheist?
[The following is an excerpt from Franz Kiekeben’s small book, Atheism: Q&A (UK), the Kindle version of which is, for promotional purposes, free December 4 through December 8. The book consists of short entries (like this one) that answer common criticisms of atheism. Thanks to Franz for guesting this piece.] The complaint that it takes […]
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Christian Evangelists Keep Asking the Wrong Question
Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist, they’ve already conclusively demonstrated those other points–and clinched their sale. The problem is that they’re not selling god-belief.
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More (Terrible) Reasons to Believe in Christianity’s God
Truly, there is nothing new under the sun! Recently, I showed you Billy Graham’s big reason to believe. And today, I’ll show you some of the other reasons I found–and why they each fail.