Counter Apologetics

The existence of Biblical, Koranic, or Talmudic confusion is not easy to square with an omni-god who inspired, dictated, or otherwise controlled the contents of a holy book. The Bible is long, vague, contradictory, ambiguous, and has no obvious message. There are about as many interpretations of the Bible as there are readers of the … Continue reading CA41 Argument From Biblical Confusion →

Glossolalia [Wiki] Heather Kavan — Linguistics of Glossolalia [PDF] William Samarin — Linguistics of Glossolalia [Amazon] Andrew Newberg — Glossolalia Neuroimaging Study [PDF] Wired — Glossolalia Neuroimaging Study [Wired] Glossolalia – OWN [YouTube] Dan Barker – Tongue Speaking [YouTube] Anti-Glossolalia Christian Writer [GotQuestions] Patheos — Non-Christian Glossolalia [Patheos] Bart Ehrman — Tongue Speaking and Snake … Continue reading CA40 Speaking in Tongues / Glossolalia →

Chris Matheson is a screenwriter and author whose credits include Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Rapture-palooza, The Story of God, and The Trouble with God. You can buy The Story of God here and The Trouble with God here [Amazon]  Contact me at emersongreen@protonmail.com or on Facebook Support on Patreon Read transcripts of the podcast … Continue reading CA39 The Story of God — Conversation with Chris Matheson →

Stephen Law’s Evil God presents a challenge to theists: Explain why the hypothesis that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent god should be considered significantly more reasonable than an omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-malevolent god. Many of the most popular arguments for god’s existence (first cause, intelligent design, fine-tuning) don’t give us any indication of … Continue reading CA38 The Evil God Challenge →

We discuss the utility of fiction, the future of Christianity, and psychonautic Shaman biologists. I’m still getting over a cold, hopefully it didn’t come through that much. Contact me at emersongreen@protonmail.com or on Facebook Support on Patreon Read transcripts of the podcast and discuss other issues at the Counter Apologetics Blog Rate the show on … Continue reading CA37 The God of Jordan Peterson, Pt. II →

Jordan Peterson is an unusual Christian apologist. Beyond a few of the standard apologetic tropes he spouts (we need god to be moral, atheists aren’t really atheists, Judeo-Christian values created Western civilization, atheism leads to communism), he defends god by adopting a pragmatic conception of truth that allows him to circumvent traditional arguments surrounding god’s … Continue reading CA36 The God of Jordan Peterson, Pt. I →

Christianity has a long and romantic relationship with torture. The primary symbol of the religion is a torture device, God’s chosen method of providing salvation was a grisly act of public torture, and hell has been an object of fascination for Christian artists, writers, and church fathers since the beginning. As the religious scholar Karen … Continue reading CA35 The Gruesome History of Christian Torture →

Author Karen Garst joins me to discuss a range of topics, including the high level of religiosity among women, the influence of mythology, abortion, and her upcoming debate at Mythcon. She has recently released a book entitled Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith and for Freedom, which is the primary subject of our conversation … Continue reading CA34 Women v. Religion — Conversation with Karen Garst →

The discovery of evolution by natural selection arguably did more to reinforce naturalism than any other single discovery in science. However, not everyone agrees that Darwinian evolution was a blow against god. In fact, Alvin Plantinga, a Christian apologist, thinks that you can’t believe both in Darwinism and naturalism simultaneously — they’re incompatible. We discuss … Continue reading CA33 Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) →

Author Evan Davids joins me to discuss why there is something rather than nothing, evolution, biblical literalism, whether Evan is really an atheist, the Fall, hell, abortion, and other topics. Christianity No Longer Makes Sense – Evan Davids [Amazon] EvanDavids.com … Contact me at emersongreen@protonmail.com or on Facebook Support on Patreon Read transcripts of the … Continue reading CA32 Does Christianity Make Sense? — Conversation with Evan Davids →

Can abortion be morally justified? We know that Christians generally think it’s abhorrent. But once we’ve left religion behind, how should we draw a conclusion about such a contentious moral issue? Independent moral reasoning is something atheists, naturalists, and skeptics can’t avoid, so we shouldn’t shy away from intra-group discussion about one of the most … Continue reading CA31 The Ethics of Abortion →

Is western civilization a product of Judeo-Christian values? Apologists claim that Judeo-Christian values influenced the thinkers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment so greatly as to deserve credit as the foundation of western values. So even if Christian beliefs are entirely untrue, could the mythology still be a useful fiction that created the west as … Continue reading CA30 “Western Values Are Based on Judeo-Christian Values” →

Are we just electrified meat, or is there a ghost in the machine? Believers claim that naturalism cannot account for the phenomenal properties of consciousness, and tend to hold the position that the mind is more than the biological activity of the brain. We examine the conventional idea of the soul and how it conflicts … Continue reading CA29 Science vs. The Soul →

Christian apologists, citing a few twentieth-century regimes, often try to conflate atheism and authoritarianism. They ignore the fact that most atheists are secularists and don’t advocate for any form of state atheism. They also ignore the fact that the policies of the atheist states they cite, most frequently North Korea and the Soviet Union, were … Continue reading CA28 State Atheism →

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