The Secular Frontier

ROBERT COSTA talks about Tim Alberta and the odd bedfellows of a morally corrupt Trump and religious ideals. In the end, a sport analogy may be apt. If my favorite team is in the baseball playoffs, I would probably want the pitcher who is most likely to win, even if I don't like the pitcher personally. I may even find myself making excuses for or ignoring his negative traits and focus on him getting the win for the team. An interesting difference between Canada and the USA is in Canada we don't vote for the head of our country, but rather political parties. ... Read Article

WHERE WE ARE In the Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli attempt to prove the resurrection of Jesus. An important part of their case for the resurrection of Jesus is an attempt to refute some skeptical theories, such as the Swoon Theory. If they FAIL to refute the Swoon Theory, then their case for the resurrection of Jesus also FAILS. Kreeft and Tacelli raise nine objections against the Swoon Theory, and I have examined four of those objections so far, namely the objections that they based on passages from the Gospel of John. Here are the conclusions I have reached about those four objections: My conclusion that all four of these objections FAIL to refute the Swoon Theory is argued and explained in a series of 18 posts published here on The Secular Frontier. MY POSTS ON THESE FOUR OBJECTIONS TO THE SWOON THEORY INTRODUCTION TO MY EXAMINATION OF THE OBJECTIONS https://secularfrontier.infidels.org/2023/07/kreefts-case-against-the-swoon-theory-part-1-intro ... Read Article

Here Trump says if you don't like "our religion," you're not immigrating into America. There will be ideological screenings/tests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ytpojdA4I ... Read Article

WHERE WE ARE In the Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli attempt to prove the resurrection of Jesus. An important part of their case for the resurrection of Jesus is an attempt to refute some skeptical theories, such as the Swoon Theory. If they FAIL to refute the Swoon Theory, then their case for the resurrection of Jesus also FAILS. Kreeft and Tacelli raise nine objections against the Swoon Theory, and I have examined four of those objections so far, namely the objections that they based on passages from the Gospel of John. Here are the conclusions I have reached about those four objections: Now I will move on to analyze and evaluate three more objections by Kreeft and Tacelli against the Swoon Theory that are based on passages from other Gospels: In this current post, I will present a careful analysis of the argument constituting Objection #6. OBJECTION #6: WHO OVERPOWERED THE GUARDS? Objection #6 against the Swoon Theory focuses on the presence o ... Read Article

THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH OBJECTION #5 The main problem with Objection #5 is that a key premise of the core argument for this objection is FALSE. Specifically, the key premise (E) is FALSE. Here, once again, is the core argument for Objection #5: E. IF the Swoon Theory is true, THEN sometime after Jesus had been crucified, the eleven remaining disciples each had experiences that they believed were experiences of seeing a living and physically embodied Jesus in which Jesus appeared to those disciples to be a half-dead, staggering sick man who was badly in need of a doctor. D. It is NOT the case that sometime after Jesus had been crucified, the eleven remaining disciples each had experiences that they believed were experiences of seeing a living and physically embodied Jesus in which Jesus appeared to be a half-dead, staggering sick man who was badly in need of a doctor. THEREFORE: A. The Swoon Theory is FALSE. Premise (E) is FALSE because the Swoon Theory does NOT asse ... Read Article

We lost John Lennon 43 years ago today. Here is his great song about secularism: Imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8 ... Read Article

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THE CORE ARGUMENT FOR OBJECTION #5 As we saw in Part 14 of this series, the core argument for Objection #5 against the Swoon Theory has two premises: E. IF the Swoon Theory is true, THEN sometime after Jesus had been crucified, the eleven remaining disciples each had experiences that they believed were experiences of seeing a living and physically embodied Jesus in which Jesus appeared to those disciples to be a half-dead, staggering sick man who was badly in need of a doctor. D. It is NOT the case that sometime after Jesus had been crucified, the eleven remaining disciples each had experiences that they believed were experiences of seeing a living and physically embodied Jesus in which Jesus appeared to be a half-dead, staggering sick man who was badly in need of a doctor. THEREFORE: A. The Swoon Theory is FALSE. WHERE WE ARE In Part 14 of this series, I presented a careful analysis of the argument constituting Objection #5 (The Sickly Jesus Objection) against t ... Read Article

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Checkmate, Atheists lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A ... Read Article

The problem of evil and suffering has long been a solid critique against theism. Recently, a conservative apologist has taken another swipe at this, writing: If science ever leads to the creation of fully functional AI robots, human beings will be the “creators” and will have the right to do with those robots what they will. Having created them from raw materials, whatever rights they are eventually given will be dependent entirely on the will, and wishes, of those who created them. See: Of course, this does not solve the problem but pushes the issue back as to when a sufficiently advanced AI robot becomes sentient, like in this clip from Star Trek TNG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WP0hc0NY ... Read Article

Above memes created and shared by @YoursMemely on Twitter for the purpose of defending Islam and being reposted. My position is if the founder of a religion took a child bride, this invalidates their status as an authority on how to live life. ... Read Article

From the article: Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, “The Revivalist Manifesto,” gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the “Pizzagate” hoax, which falsely claimed top Democratic officials were involved in a pedophile ring, among other conspiracies. The book also propagates baseless and inaccurate claims, implying that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was subjected to blackmail and connected to the disgraced underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. SEE THE CNN ARTICLE HERE ... Read Article

Politically moderate and left-leaning evangelicals appear to have been most impacted by Trump-era: See analysis HERE ... Read Article

Did Jesus have the conservative evangelical inerrant view of scripture that nothing should be changed or added? Clearly not, he challenged conventional wisdom such as regarding the sabbath. Regarding love of neighbor he clarified "43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:43-44)." For my previous post on this topic see: Is The Bible Inerrant? 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ... Read Article