“godless” by Dan Barker–(Part 7): The Ten Commandments–They are so immoral!
The last part of chapter 10 in Dan Barker’s book, godless—How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists, Barker attempts to make the case...
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“godless” by Dan Barker–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 6): How God Hates the Disabled, and How Jesus Doesn’t Care for the Poor…and He Wants You Castrated! (What?)
Welcome to Part 6 of my extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists. We are currently w...
“godless” by Dan Barker: An Extended Book Analysis (Part 5): The Bible…a Universal Moral Rule Book?
We now come to Part 3 of Dan Barker’s book godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists. Part 3 is entitled, “What’s Wrong with...
“godless” by Dan Barker: An Extended Book Analysis (Part 4): Trudging Thru Three Chapters
We now come Part 4 in my series on Dan Barker’s book godless. In this post, I am going to cover his next three chapters: Chapter 7: Omni-Aqueous, Chapter 8: Cos...
“godless”–by Dan Barker: An Extended Book Analysis (Part 3: Science, Morality, and the Bible)
We now come to my third post about Dan Barker’s book godless, in which I will discuss chapter 6 which is entitled, “Refuting God.” In it, Barker covers sixteen ...
“godless” by Dan Barker: An Extended Book Analysis–Part 2 (Reason, Faith…and the USSR?)
The second section of Dan Barker’s book godless is entitled, “Why I am an Atheist.” It concludes the following chapters: Chapter 5: Why I am an Atheist; Chapter...
Going “godless”: An Extended Book Analysis of Dan Barker’s “godless” (Part 1)
One of the most illuminating, albeit frustrating, intellectual exercises one can do is to read something by someone with whom you completely disagree, and then ...
Atheist Jerry Coyne and YECist Ken Ham: Two Peas in a Pod
I have long said that atheists like Richard Dawkins and YECists like Ken Ham are each other’s doppleganger, and actually share the same fundamental worldview, d...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 2): Sophomoric Silliness in Bible Reading
In my last post, I began to look at Richard Carrier’s claims that Jesus probably never existed and that the Gospels were, in fact, a myth. I noted that several ...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 1): How a Twitter Battle Roped Me Assessing the Absurd
Last week I got into a little bit of a “Twitter war” over the issue of whether or not Jesus was a historical person. As often happens on social media like Twitt...