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Obeying God Can Mean Loneliness

Tonight, after Bible study, I was hanging with the guys -- lately I've been the only female to show up at Bible studies. They started to look things up online, looking for laughs. I was watching the funny videos and ot…
Atheists Who Give: Are They Morally Superior?

A few years back a group of friends and I were having a discussion late at night. It was one of those 3:00am discussions involving coffee, beer and philosophy. My friends were mostly Christian intellectuals, the kinds w…
Chivalric or Christ-like?

I've recently seen a lot of posts about chivalry. Chivalry was originally the practice of knights -- you know, courtly love and romance and all that. People want it, complain about it, debate about it today, but someth…
Good Without God: The Real Debate(s)

By Nick Don at Theopolitical The whole atheist-Christian “can morality exist without God” debate is a mess, because there are actually three debates going on and being endlessly conflated with one another. S…
My Issues With American Christianity

I hate to say it, but I really do. I can't stand it. I think the focus of American Christianity is all wrong, I believe it goes about things the wrong way, and I believe that it's intrusive to others. Let me explain. A…
Are Some Beliefs Immoral?

By Will Green Are some beliefs immoral? Imagine someone who believes that certain people are sub-human. We would react to that person as having an immoral belief. What about a dictator who believes that people who disa…
Moral Contributions from the Bible

By Will Green Has the Bible made important contributions to the development of morality? Here are three areas: 1. The Bible has been positive influence regarding the idea that everyone is equal. From an evolutionary pe…
Is a Therapeutic God the God of the Bible?

In the Christianity Today’s 2005 Distinguished Book Award winning book Soul Searching, sociologist Christian Smith outlines the creedal characteristics of what he calls, "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism": A God exist…
Morality Cannot Be Legislated

By Justin at BeDeviant When you try and legislate morality, it almost always fails. Sure, you’ll get a few converts along the way. You may even get a enough people to start a movement of some sort. But eventual…
"I Like It, So God Must Like It, Too": Egocentrism in the Christian World

By Bonnie at The Mockingbird Blog Religion is often seen as a moral compass - it is frequently used by believers as a guide to doing and believing the right thing. People may disagree on social issues like abortion, sam…