religion

What is Christianity? Part 2

One objection to my cognitivist view of religion and Christianity is this popular little bit of stupidity: “Christianity is not a religion; it is a relationship with Jesus Christ.” I have three initial responses to this statement: (1) read your freaking bible, (2) read your freaking dictionary, and (3) use your freaking brain. 1. READ What is Christianity? Part 2

What is Christianity? – Part 1

Since I am planning to invest the next ten years (or more) of my life in an effort to investigate and answer the question “Is Christianity true or false?”,  I need to start out by clarifying and defining the word “Christianity”. There are those who would argue that Christianity is not the sort of thing that What is Christianity? – Part 1

Ten-Year Plan: Revised Scope

I am going to start my Ten-Year Plan this year. However, I have decided to EXPAND the scope of the project; I will attempt to eat the whole enchilada, so ten years might not be enough time.  I wrote a previous post (offsite) on my Ten-Year Plan. The question at issue:  Is Christianity true or false? Here Ten-Year Plan: Revised Scope

Ben Carson is Also a POLITICAL Nutcase – Part 1

It looks like Ben Carson’s popularity is fading away, according recent polls (Thank you baby Jesus!). However, he was clearly the number two choice of Republicans from the end of August until early December, and for the first half of November, Carson was neck-and-neck with Trump, tied for first choice of Republicans.  Furthermore, the primary elections/caucuses Ben Carson is Also a POLITICAL Nutcase – Part 1

Huckabee, Cruz, and Jindal Kiss the Ring of Religious Nutcase Kevin Swanson

By “ring” I don’t mean jewelry worn on Swanson’s finger. ================================ “Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal all spoke this weekend at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, an event hosted by Kevin Swanson, a Colorado-based pastor and activist who frequently informs his followers that the biblical penalty for homosexuality is Huckabee, Cruz, and Jindal Kiss the Ring of Religious Nutcase Kevin Swanson

Religious Nutcase Elected President of the USA – Part 2

In a previous post, I provided evidence that Ben Carson is an anti-science religious nutcase. Here is more evidence that Ben Carson is a genuine nutcase…his obsession with and admiration for W. Cleon Skousen, an anti-communist crackpot from the 1950s: ===================== Ben Carson’s Love Affair With a “Nutjob” Conspiracy Theorist A top GOP presidential contender has Religious Nutcase Elected President of the USA – Part 2

The Slaughter of the Canaanites – The Grand Inquisitor Jones – Part 3

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” Carl Sandburg, in The People, Yes (1936) One response to my sixty objections against Clay Jones’s attempt to defend Jehovah’s command to the Israelites to The Slaughter of the Canaanites – The Grand Inquisitor Jones – Part 3