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Biblically Accurate Angels and the Memes That Define Them
In my hometown, there are a couple Mexican food restaurants to choose from — all of them pretty good — but at least in my household, if you say “let’s eat at Mexican,” we’re referring to one specific restaurant: El Caballo Blanco (translation: The White Horse). Not only do they have the best chicken dishes […]
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Keeping It Simple: Whatever Happened to the Churches?
The earliest Christians met in beautiful simplicity, filled with love and charity. What happened?
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The James Webb Space Telescope Images and the Mocking of Christians by Atheists
The James Webb Space Telescope's first images were certainly awe-inspiring, but some people have taken them as an opportunity to mock those with a different worldview from them. Let's put a stop to that behavior.
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What I Used to Be, or a Look at Labels Long Left Behind
There was a time I cared more about the labels ascribed to myself than I did treating those around me with dignity and love. What were those labels? And was it worth it?
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Do You Need God to Be Good?
Without God, people are free to rape, murder, steal, and cause all the destruction that they want... right? That is what some apologists believe, that without God, there is no goodness. But what is the good? And can it be attained without God's help?
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Challenge Your Eyes with the Eyeballing Game
I have always fancied myself a pretty good eyeballer, and now there’s a test to prove it one way or another: the eyeballing game. I amazed myself at how good I did on some of the tests, and utterly disappointed myself on others. Either way, I was ahead of the curve. Where do you fall? Error […]
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A Finely Tuned Universe? Not From Our Perspective
In part 1 of my response to Zac Sechler’s 36 Questions for Atheists, we looked at the very basic, most fundamental question of why there is something rather than nothing and how that relates to whether the universe is eternal or if a creator deity is responsible for its existence. I had no problem admitting […]
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Jesus, E.T., and a Book of Many Interpretations
I am not always the biggest fan of my mind. I try to be rationally minded, or at least I think I do. Looking back at all the wild ideas I’ve held since, I don’t know, middle school, though? It’d be really easy to come to the conclusion that my mind is a house built […]
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The End Is the Beginning?
There is no shame in being an atheist, a secularist, a materialist, a rationalist, or whatever else and still hoping that there is something beyond death. You don’t have to believe in a god to hope that whatever our selves are persists after death. The idea of ceasing to exist is terrifying, at least to […]
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
What feels like a lifetime ago, I was introduced to the concept of lengthy lists of questions intended to catch members of an opposing viewpoint or worldview off guard or get them thinking about what they believe in perhaps a different manner. The earliest list I can recall was Hard Nuts for Catholic Apologists, a […]