Excerpt from "Jesus Is Involved In Politics! Why aren't You? Why Isn't Your Church?" Rational Free Press 2010 (c) Neil MammenAvailable on Amazon and at www.JesusIsInvolvedInPolitics.com Socrates (to Euthyphro): “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or...
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Gospel contradictions? Why they don’t exist. A Little Experiment to Teach Skeptics about trying to mindlessly refute the NT
A few years ago on an email list that is populated mainly by liberal Christians and non believers, I was challenged by an Atheist (Charles) to explain why there were so many inconsistencies in the Gospel accounts. His complaint was that for example some gospel...
The Birch Tree Challenge
I've issued a challenge at Plumb Bob Blog, my political/social blog, to progressives and atheists to see which of them can answer cogently. I'm giving away the secret up front: this is about the semantic contortion that leads them to call long-term cohabiting between...
Caroline Lois’ Story: A response to suffering.
by Caroline's Dad, Neil Mammen My sweet daughter Caroline Lois died in my arms last week. She was nine days old. We will bury her this week. This is Caroline’s story, starting with the reflections my wife and I gave at the funeral. Afterwards I’ve included some of the...
Why Do Christians Worship God? Part IV
(Author's note: This is the fourth and last installment in a series discussing why Christians worship God. On this blog, the first installment may be found here, the second here, and the third here. On the author's blog, the first installment can be found here, the...
Why Do Christians Worship God? Part III
(Author's note: This is the third installment in a series discussing why Christians worship God. The first installment can be found here, and the second, here.) Battle Worship: Our Cooperation With God As Liberator There's a fascinating scene in The Two Towers, the...
What Is A Human Being? A Key to the Abortion Debate
I posted the following as a comment on the thread called Politically Correct Torture, and Dr. Turek asked me to post it separately as an article. So, here goes. I also posted this as an article on my own blog, which you can reach here. In the various debates about...
Why Do Christians Worship God? Part II
(Author's note: This is the second installment in a series discussing why Christians worship God. The first installment can be found here.) Instructional Worship: Our Response to God as Parent Children, when they're born, naturally love their parents and look to them...
Why Do Christians Worship God? Part I
In the world of Christian apologetics, the question "Why do Christians worship God," comes up usually as a challenge from scornful atheists who view God as a narcissistic megalomaniac who demands attention to feed his weak ego. Of course, their idea is anthropomorphic...
Are Atheists really just as Moral as Christians?
Are Atheists really just as Moral as Christians? One of the complaints that I often hear is that “Atheists are just as moral as Christians are”. The response is usually made when I present the Moral Argument. Well I always try to clarify that I never said or meant...
Atheists: What kind of God would you accept?
Recently I posed a question to our fellow truth seekers who are atheists, and we had a great response and good dialog. It let us understand a lot of the feelings and reasons for either accepting or not accepting the God of the Christians if He was real. So here's...
Suffering and Evil: Can God do anything?
Can God do Anything? Can he create a stone so big that he cannot move it? Part 1 In a response to one of our readers, I said that God cannot do anything. The reader responded? “Then what about Miracles.” In another post an atheist reader said: “... God can suspend the...
Is the Problem of Evil and Suffering Insurmountable?
So how do Christians respond to this Epicurean question? Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really...
What if the God of the Christians was real?
Frank will be back in the US anytime soon, so he'll be taking back the helm shortly. So as he returns, I'd like to ask our Atheist fellow travelers in search of truth this question: Atheist readers, what if you were to suddenly find out tomorrow that the God of the...
Is the Supernatural Impossible?
Is the Supernatural Impossible? (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. When I talk to individuals who do not believe in God or even "a god," often the first objection they provide to me is that it is not...
Does our Morality come from our DNA?
Does our Morality come from our DNA? Frank, is out of town for a week and has honored me by asking me to post a few blogs in his absence. My name is Neil Mammen, I consider myself a pop-apologist. I see my evening job as taking complex apologetic concepts, and...
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