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Month: April 2019

Book Review/The New Atheist Movement

“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 3): Morality Genes, Cultural Memes, and More Assertions From the “Evolution of the Gaps”

Posted on April 24, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 6 Comments

In my previous post on Dan Barker’s book Mere Morality, I responded to Barker’s attempt to draw a distinction between “religious values” and “human values,” as ...

Book Review/The New Atheist Movement

“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 2): Religious Values, Human Values, and Self-Castrating Monks?

Posted on April 23, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

In my previous post, I began to walk through Dan Barker’s book Mere Morality and noted, among other things, that he tries to claim that our sense of morality is...

Book Review/The New Atheist Movement

Mere Morality by Dan Barker–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 1): What’s the Passing Grade for Morality?

Posted on April 19, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 5 Comments

Recently, the former fundamentalist preacher turned atheist Dan Barker has come out with a book entitled, Mere Morality, in which he essentially makes two argum...

Biblical Studies/Paul the Apostle

Morality, the Torah, and a Transcendent Standard: Further Clarification

Posted on April 18, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 6 Comments

Before I begin my extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s Mere Morality, I wanted to write a post in which I clarify a number of points I’ve made, both in my thr...

Biblical Studies/Book Review

John Walton’s “Lost World of the Torah” (Part 3): Not a Divine Rule Book; Rather Reflecting God’s Character Within the ANE Culture

Posted on April 16, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

In John Walton’s most recent book, The Lost World of the Torah, he attempts to correct a number of misconceptions people today, both Christians and non-Christia...

Biblical Studies/Book Review/Friedrich Nietzsche/The New Atheist Movement

Is Morality Derived From a Transcendent Standard?

Posted on April 12, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 7 Comments

Dan Barker, the former fundamentalist minister-turned-atheist, and now president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has recently written his most recent b...

Biblical Studies/Book Review

John Walton’s “Lost World of the Torah”–A Book Review (Part 2): Why the Torah Needs to be Seen in Light of the Covenant…and What “Holiness” Really Means

Posted on April 5, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 6 Comments

John Walton’s most recent book, The Lost World of the Torah takes the reader through a number of misconceptions we in the modern world tend to have about the To...

Biblical Studies/Book Review

John Walton’s “Lost World of the Torah”–A Book Review (Part 1): Why Everything We Assume About the Torah is Wrong…sorta…

Posted on April 1, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

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