Unreasonable Faith

[...] Express-News: A federal judge in San Antonio on Wednesday declared Texas’ ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. The Lone Star state’s refusal to recognize out-of-state same-sex [...]

[...] who now seem to think that maybe things have gone to far, and maybe the proponents of gay marriage should be, y’know, more civil. Once again, civility is the last refuge of the scoundrel. [...]

[...] may be really spiffy, but what does that have to do with Amendment 3? How does preventing gay marriage strengthen or promote straight marriage? Does anyone really think that homosexuals will dump [...]

[...] is another religious liberty law intended to prevent people from having to do anything with gay marriage, but as in Kansas the language here is so broad it could lead to serious problems. Once that [...]

[...] the argument as if it’s honestly given and defended means starting off on the back foot. Lee Strobel has made a career of front-loading the evangelistic message. He got his big break in the [...]

[...] Once again, we bring you Geds the Accidental Historian, as he tackles the problems with Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ”. In my last post on the subject of front-loaded [...]

[...] close attention to apologists you can usually hear when they give the game away. For instance, Lee Strobel makes a subtle mistake when moves from trying to convince everyone that he’s proven the [...]

[...] are also more likely to divorce than their counterparts elsewhere. Young people of every religious belief—or none—are influenced by cultural climate. Glass and Levchak believe that this [...]

[...] , able to pay me back as a loan officer. I just don’t — it’s against my religious belief and my religious belief is sincere. Under your law, I could refuse to do business with an [...]

[...] or businesses who would otherwise be compelled to perform some action that is against their religious belief. In other words, SB1062 would allow people sued under civil rights laws or similar [...]

[...] Jefferson spoke directly to the debate over the crafting of a Virginia statute for religious freedom. Jefferson describes a proposal to add the phrase “the plan of Jesus Christ, the [...]

[...] in our U.S. Constitution.” We’ve been seeing more and more of those “religious freedom” bills in places like Arizona, Kansas and Georgia. One line of thinking says that [...]

[...] member of the Arizona Senate. Melvin was one of the supporters of the recent “religious freedom” bill. You can go to JT’s site for the interview, or for Jon Stewart’s [...]

[...] equality movement, it’s no surprise that there’s a backlash. The “religious freedom” laws that many states have attempted are a good example. But probably more [...]

[...] for now. Notice that after years of watching them sneer at post-modernism, we find that conservative Christians have now embraced it. Really, really weird. Creationism makes for strange bedfellows. [...]

[...] new material and the old: The screenings revealed a range of issues for that group [conservative Christians]. Some in the audience found the Noah character too conflicted. Some needed [...]

[...] ; bills in places like Arizona, Kansas and Georgia. One line of thinking says that conservative Christians have realized that they’re losing the marriage battle, and so they’ve [...]

[...] , florists and photographers that oppose gay marriage. In short, no one thinks that conservative Christians are likely to be treated the same way they want gays to be treated. The question is, [...]

[...] odd. We all know that children make up stories, and some of the stories are beyond belief. As Fred Clark like to point out, we ought to WANT those stories to be false. They’re horrible. But we [...]

[...] as capital “L” Liberal Christianity. As opposed to people like Rachel Held Evans or Fred Clark, who are Christians who happen to be liberal. This is what I tried to wrap my head around [...]

[...] morally identical to voting for Hitler. Both Perkins and Wisse might find this flowchart handy. Fred Clark posted it. [...]

[...] up in NC, and Paul Janeway sings like it’s his last chance to save his soul. Fred Clark is a fan. Not surprisingly so are a lot of NPR listeners – it’s that kind of [...]

[...] short and somewhat scattered trailer for the documentary Apocalypse Later, featuring the biblical interpretation of Harold Camping and flashes of Bart Ehrman. Harold Camping died on Sunday, finally [...]

[...] that organized when approaching the Bible. More often than not in discussions of Biblical interpretation I find a confused mess. The speaker will pay lip service to some principle, like a [...]

[...] clear, then why would we abandon the Catholic Church, with its priests who specialize in Biblical interpretation and who have passed down the true doctrines of Christianity obtained by the Apostles [...]