This week I wrote two posts regarding the movie God’s Not Dead 2. The first post was essentially a summary of the film, and the second was my analysis of it. The basic points I hoped that came across were these: The “persecution narrative” that is often promoted within many Evangelical circles simply is not…
Brief Note: My apologies for the length (3500 words). I was debating whether or not to split it up into two posts, but in this case, I think one large post is better. Enjoy… On April Fool’s Day this year, God’s Not Dead 2 hit the theaters. Reactions to the movie were as predictable as…
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 share. Those of you who know Elliot’s story know what a miracle child he is. He has defied death already a few…
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 Wheaton, Illinois, and taught Bible for 16 years at three different Evangelical high schools, I have never been a big fan of “Christian” movies. The…
Richard Dawkins opened his book, The God Delusion, with a creative reinterpretation of John Lennon’s famous song, Imagine. Essentially, Dawkins pined, “Just imagine how great this world would be if we got rid of religion!” Well, after 21 posts, I hope you feel I’ve shed some light on exactly what kind of world Dawkins’ atheistic…
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 civilized world. At the end of his chapter 8, Dawkins says things like: “Christianity…teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don’t have to make the case for…
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. He begins by addressing an accusation that many people, I being one of them, have made against the New Atheist Movement: “Doesn’t your hostility…
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 was pretty simple: he refuses to read and interpret the content of the Old and New Testaments within their historical and literary contexts. It may…
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 Testament gives people pause. But when it comes to Jesus and the New Testament, well, who doesn’t love Jesus? Gandhi patterned his life after Jesus, and…
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 front that his comments may be convincing to anyone who does not understand what the Bible is. Of course, to those who understand the literary and…