Author: Adam Lee

Earlier this year, I called on readers to help me compile the “apologist’s handbook”, a list of responses given by lay and professional Christians to common atheist objections, in order to point out how some of those answers directly contradict each other. There were dozens of suggestions, some of them very good indeed. Well, I’ve…

This great comment by Rollingforest in another thread got me thinking: When they go door to door, Mormons like to present themselves as Christians with minor but important improvements on Christian doctrine. These missionaries make sure to forget to mention or to gloss over the huge changes in dogma that becoming a Mormon requires (multiple…

A few months ago, I wrote briefly about an obscure Florida pastor who had the idea of burning a Qur’an. At the time he backed off under intense pressure, but later changed his mind and went through with it. This would have gone nowhere, except that some Islamic mullahs in Afghanistan (aided by Hamid Karzai,…

If I had the time, I’d write a whole post about each of these. As it is, you can probably guess what I would say: • There are atheists in the military! • And in high schools! • And for why this matters, see this post on Friendly Atheist, about a study finding that anti-atheist…

As Russell Blackford informs us, the Vatican is again indulging its persecution complex, sending out an archbishop to whine about how unfair it is that gay and lesbian people are increasingly gaining equal rights and how the church is victimized by this: “People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behaviour…

The Language of God, Chapter 10 By B.J. Marshall Chapter 10 introduces Collins’ concept of BioLogos, but first he gives an overview of Theistic Evolution (TE) and why it works to bridge science and faith. Although we’ve talked about TE previously, this chapter shows Collins laying out six premisses that support TE. He then has…

Out of all the correspondence I get, occasionally there’s a letter which repays, many times over, all the effort I’ve put into writing for my websites. This is one of them, which I’m sharing with the author’s permission: Hello Adam, I wanted to drop you a note to let you know how much your writing…

So, I’ve been debating Catholic commenters on Unequally Yoked again, and I came across a comment that was so astute, so unusually perceptive, that I just had to share it. The war with the Canaanites is really just a specialization of the problem of suffering, right? Why does a good God allow suffering, which is…

As I’ve written in the past, modern Christianity has never outgrown the demoniac fixation of its founders, who believed that evil spirits were constantly on the prowl and assaulting them. People like Gary Collins – an evangelical, a clinical psychologist, and the head of a 15,000-member association of Christian counselors – still believes, based not…

After my earlier post on this subject, Slacktivist has written several follow-up posts about the evangelical freak-out over the news that one of their own may not believe in Hell: For Mohler, as for most of Team Hell, we can see that there are two distinct categories. On the one hand there is what is…