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Back when I was an active member in the Church of Christ, I got myself in trouble with the pastor and the elders because I pointed out some discrepancies I’d found between what the church teaches and what it was actually practicing. For example, one of their big teachings is that the church has to [...]
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An odd response
April 23rd, 2012 
Deacon Duncan My latest post at Evangelical Realism seems to have attracted the attention of a self-described “New Evangelist” named David Roemer. It’s an odd response, though. My post was about William Lane Craig’s problems with the doctrine of Hell and Christian exclusivism, and, well, see if you can tell what (if anything) Roemer’s response has to [...]
Why God can’t heal amputees
April 7th, 2012 Deacon Duncan One of Mighty Timbo’s lost posts addresses the question of why God does not heal amputees. As with the question of why God doesn’t show up, though, he phrases the issue in such a way as to miss the most important aspects of the question. The Atheist has likely never been witness to a miraculous [...]
God’s evil addiction
April 4th, 2012 Deacon Duncan There’s an old joke about a woman who keeps hitting herself in the head with a hammer. When they asked, “Why are you doing that?” she replied, “Because it feels so good when I stop!” Yesterday we looked at Mighty Timbo’s story about how God allegedly healed his wife years after a serious car accident [...]
I am Peter Ingersoll
April 2nd, 2012 Deacon Duncan When Mighty Timbo undertook his disproof of Mormonism, the first point he offered was eyewitness testimony by one Peter Ingersoll (or Ingersol, or Ingersall, not sure why there are so many different spellings), to the effect that Smith’s “Golden Bible” wasn’t really there. When I invited Timbo to submit that article, I told him that [...]
Well darn.
March 29th, 2012 Deacon Duncan I had a feeling Mighty Timbo was bailing out when he ended his last comment here by saying, “Contact me again when you’re interested in genuine discourse.” A strange thing to say, considering that “genuine discourse”—as opposed to following a Jack Chick style script—is exactly what I have been doing, and what he appears to [...]
The skeptic’s role
March 28th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Mighty Timbo appears to be upset with me for failing to follow whatever script he had in mind for my part in his proposed “debate” (which, as he may recall, I declined to participate in). I’ve been examining his post entitled “Why Doesn’t God Show Himself To Us and Prove He Exists?” and showing how [...]
An inadequate apologia
March 27th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Mighty Timbo says he has now “fixed” the wording in his attempt at excusing God’s failure to show up. It no longer explicitly declares that “It doesn’t seem like knowing him personally did a whole lot of good,” but instead now only implies it. Semantics aside, though, the thrust of his argument remains the same: [...]
The case against Mormonism
March 23rd, 2012 Deacon Duncan I’m going to try something a little different and see how people like it. A little while ago I was approached by a self-described Christian apologist with a request that I write my best case against Christianity, up to 2,000 words, for presentation on his blog, so that he could respond to it. I declined, [...]
Overheard…
March 4th, 2012 Deacon Duncan “Claiming that someone else’s marriage is against your religion is like claiming that someone else’s donut is breaking your diet.”
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