Many of our friends reacted with horror when they first found out we are raising our children Christian. The common response is something like, “I don’t want my children to be indoctrinated; I want them to be able to make up their own mind when they are old enough to decide!”. They eventually come to …
I spent several years convincing Christians to give up their religious beliefs. I felt that most Christians had absolutely terrible reasons for believing, and I loved challenging them to defend their reasons. Much later, it began to dawn on me that the reasons they eventually accepted for being atheist were just as bad as the …
A well-documented cause of underachievement in black students is the “acting white” phenomenon. Black students who excel at academics are considered to be traitors who are trying to “act white”. I’ve witnessed this first-hand multiple times, and it’s a real tragedy. Interestingly, the evidence shows that this phenomenon started right when black separatism began to …
If atheism is true, why did so many ancient cultures hold to some form of theism? Why did none of them get it right? Why did our ancestors adopt theism, rather than atheism? Atheists sometimes feel compelled to answer these questions. The most common answer goes something like this: “Ancient people were superstitious and ignorant …
Flipping through “Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis” last night reminded me that I am long overdue for a promised book review. In his letter to Mary Willis Shelburne dated June 6, 1955, Lewis says: “About prides, superiorities, and affronts there is no book better than Law’s Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life where …
Remonstrans recently linked to a nonsensical post about the trinity by “naked pastor”. Most detailed explanations of the trinity are sophist nonsense, and naked pastor is a real humdinger. Just last night, I read Jürgen Habermas in “The Dialectics of Secularization”, and came across another whopper of a theory: Without initially having any theological intention, …