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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/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

More times than not, whether it be movies or novels, sequels are never as good as the original. Even when sequels end up being good, the original still is the o...

Book Review/The New Atheist Movement

“godless” by Dan Barker (Part 12): Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

Posted on March 12, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 43 Comments

We now come to the last installment of my extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s godless. In this post, we will look at Barker’s argument that Jesus didn’t real...

Book Review/The New Atheist Movement

“godless” by Dan Barker (Part 11): Get Your Myth On! Get Your Myth On! Barker goes full-mythicist!

Posted on March 11, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

We are getting close to the end of by extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s godless. The next couple of posts will primarily focus on the final two chapters of...

Book Review/The New Atheist Movement

“godless” by Dan Barker (Part 10): Morality, Thomas Jefferson, and the Image of God (Out on three strikes)

Posted on March 6, 2019 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 4 Comments

In my previous post, I looked at Dan Barker’s comments in chapter 12 of his book, godless, in which he discusses his view regarding the issue of what the basis ...

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