James J. Buchanan of the Christ Life Church in Tempe, Arizona, defrauded 30-40 people out of over $5 million over the last ten years. He claimed to be a financial planner, and took many people’s life’s savings, as well as money from the church. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says it’s hard to tell where … Phony financial planner defrauds churchgoers

In a Republican presidential debate, Newt Gingrich stated the following: think if the question is does faith matter, absolutely. How can you have a country which is founded on truth, which begins, “We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights” — how — how can you have the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which … Republican​s Unite Against Atheists

Victor Reppert has a short essay on his Dangerous Idea blog on the use of probability arguments in the philosophy of religion. Here I would like to offer my own take on the question. A principle often invoked by theists making probability arguments is what Robin Collins calls the “prime principle of confirmation (PPC),” which … Probabilities and Ultimate Posits

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For the past two years I have, in my copious free time, been studying Richard Swinburne’s case for God. Recently my focus has been on his evaluation of the cosmological argument (hereafter TCA) in his book The Existence of God, 2nd edition (hereafter EOG). His version of TCA is quite simple:e: A complex physical universe … Help Wanted – Part 1

I am what William Rowe calls a “friendly atheist.” I respect many Christian philosophers and other theistic philosophers. I do not believe they are irrational or suffer from a mental disorder, as some “unfriendly atheists” have claimed. Similarly, I know Christian philosophers who I happily describe as “friendly theists;” I’ve always enjoyed my interactions with … Friendly Atheism, Reasonable Nonbelief, and Unfriendly Apologetics

I chuckled when I stumbled upon a book with this name: “When Bad Christians Happen to Good People : Where We Have Failed Each Other and How to Reverse the Damage” by Dave Burchett

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