Lightning Flashes, and Encounters With the Divine…
I know I am in the middle of writing my review of God’s Not Dead 2, but a very unusual thing just happened to me this afternoon that I thought worthy enough to ...
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God’s Not Dead 2: A Movie Review and Analysis (Part 1)
Yesterday, I decided to see God’s Not Dead 2, with the expressed purpose of writing a blog post on it. Now, even though I grew up in the Evangelicalism of Wheat...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: This is the End! (Cut Out My Appendix Already!)(Part 22)
Richard Dawkins opened his book, The God Delusion, with a creative reinterpretation of John Lennon’s famous song, Imagine. Essentially, Dawkins pined, “Just ima...
Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”: Religious Faith is a Form of Child Abuse? (Part 21)
Throughout The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argues that not only is religious faith a delusion, but that it is downright horrific, and a danger to the civilize...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: What’s So Wrong With Religion? (Part 20)
Near the end of The God Delusion, in chapter 8, Dawkins makes his case for why religion is so bad, and why he feels morally obligated to be hostile toward it. H...
Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”: Atheism, Genocide, and Dawkins’ Head in the Sand (Part 19)
Over the past couple of posts I have covered what Richard Dawkins has said about the Old and New Testaments. The gist of my analysis of Dawkins in this respect ...
Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”: The New Testament…Worse than the Old Testament? (Part 18)
It is fairly common to people complain about how blood-thirsty the God of the Old Testament seems to be. Or, at the very least, the violence in the Old Testamen...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Old Testament Atrocities (Part 17)
In our trek through Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, we have now come to chapter 7, where he turns his attention specifically to the Bible. Let me say up fron...
Richard Dawkins and The God Delusion: “I’ve Got Me a Moral Disposition in my Jeans!” (Part 16)
In case you haven’t noticed, I find Richard Dawkins fascinating—not exactly in a positive sense, though. What I mean is that I am genuinely mystified by much of...
Biblical Studies Extravaganza! I, Joel Anderson, Have Found the SOURCE of “Q”
***NOTE: This originally was a short little piece I wrote for the Regent College newspaper back in 1997…it never got published, but it is a piece of writi...