John Loftus from Debunking Christianity is at it again. In his recent post, When Psalm 14:1 Says Atheists Are “Fools” This Can Be Easily Refuted, he suggests he can easily refute the idea of biblical inerrancy and cites me to assist him in doing so! Unfortunately he makes several straight-forward mistakes. Given that he has […]
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John Loftus on Calvin, Matthew Flannagan and Psalm 14
January 11th, 2010 17 Comments
Tags: John Calvin · John Loftus · Psalm 14
Grr: On Naming Names the Court has Suppressed
January 11th, 2010 4 Comments
Just because I am a blogger, I’m friends with Cameron Slater a.k.a. Whale Oil, I’ve gone on the record as supporting some of Cameron Slater’s concern with the current practice of name suppression orders for celebrities and I’m legally connected does NOT mean that I automatically always know who the beneficiary of every celebrity name […]
Tags: Name Suppression · Whale Oil
Christian Blog Carnival 309
January 8th, 2010 Comments Off on Christian Blog Carnival 309
The Christian Blog Carnival 309 is out now at RodneyOlsen.net. Matt’s post Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites was featured. If you wish to submit a blog post to the next Christian carnival use the Blog Carnival Submission Form.
Tags: The Christian Carnival
Tales of Blog Wars and Cannon Fodder
January 4th, 2010 16 Comments
There is a war raging in the blogosphere; the war for first place in the Biblioblog rankings. Being world-famous-in-New-Zealand bloggers and TVNZ One News Anchors… We are used to putting our heads into the lion’s mouth (or at least Matt is), I find it better to just tame the lion myself… Sorry, I took these […]
Tags: Alexa · Biblioblog · Blog Rankings · Humour · Jeremy Thompson · Jim West · Joel Watts · Polycarp
A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and So-Called ‘Counter-Examples’”
January 2nd, 2010 9 Comments
In my previous post, A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”, I addressed some criticisms levelled at a talk I gave on moral relativsm by Deane from The Dunedin School (TDS) blog. In a follow up post, which, once again, I cannot link directly too as TDS […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Deane Galbraith · Relativism · The Dunedin School
Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs – November 09
January 1st, 2010 9 Comments
The Top 10 New Zealand Christian Blogs for November 09 were as follows: [2.] NZ Conservative 17 (7 – 27) [3.] MacDoctor Moments 17 (18 – 16) [5.] Say Hello to my Little Friend (Beretta) 17 (5 – 29) [1.] MandM 18.5 (6 – 31) [4.] Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 23 (13 […]
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
