You claim to worship a man who dined with prostitutes and tax collectors, but you have "reservations" about whether or not to permit homosexuals to live near you? What kind of twisted, backwards tribe is this?

I assume that the Seminary will soon be expelling its College Republicans for attempting to violate Romans 13:1.

For completeness' sake, I deleted my last comment because I spelled "wounds" wrong.

What do the 8 in 10 have to say for the 9-year old child who was murdered here, or any of the many others who died on the scene or later succumbed to their wounds? This is like the man who reads about 99 people dying in an airplane crash and praises God for the survival of the hundredth: a fool. He thinks that God can go out of his way to preserve the life of one person but is either unwilling or ...more

What do the 8 in 10 have to say for the 9-year old child who was murdered here, or any of the many others who died on the scene or later succumbed to their wounds? This is like the man who reads about 99 people dying in an airplane crash and praises God for the survival of the hundredth: a fool. He thinks that God can go out of his way to preserve the life of one person but is either unwilling or unable to protect any of the others, be they innocent children or federal judges.less

Who is a Christian to lecture others about morality? Christianity teaches that morality, that right action and good works, are totally irrelevant. Christianity teaches that doing good means nothing to the creator of the universe; what matters to him is only one's submission to the name of his son. On the one hand, your apologetics goes out of its way to ridicule the notion that morality matters to...more

Who is a Christian to lecture others about morality? Christianity teaches that morality, that right action and good works, are totally irrelevant. Christianity teaches that doing good means nothing to the creator of the universe; what matters to him is only one's submission to the name of his son. On the one hand, your apologetics goes out of its way to ridicule the notion that morality matters to God, but on the other hand, you all say that Christianity is the only acceptable basis for morality. So which is it? Does right and wrong matter? Of course not- it's Jesus that matters. Don't be coy about your doctrines; you know what the Bible says about false prophets.less

The Christian apologist's responses with which this article is liberally sprinkled do not convince me. First, it is not a response at all to say that only God can give such a standard, because that is precisely the point of the problem of evil- that evil is a problem of internal coherence for theism, meaning that once theism assumes the moral standard, it is easily shown that their God does not li...more

The Christian apologist's responses with which this article is liberally sprinkled do not convince me. First, it is not a response at all to say that only God can give such a standard, because that is precisely the point of the problem of evil- that evil is a problem of internal coherence for theism, meaning that once theism assumes the moral standard, it is easily shown that their God does not live up to it. Whether or not there is such a standard is irrelevant, only that Christianity requires both that standard and its seemingly flagrant frequent violations by God.

Second, think about the disgusting message of the analogy to dentistry, that there is somehow some reward to be gained for all evil. That means that God sees it fit only to parse out his rewards to people after he mercilessly tortures them or kills them without reason or explanation, yet others seem to participate in these rewards without first having their families slaughtered in a tidal wave (for example). This means that God is a particularly nasty being because his rewards, sort of like the cheese given to rats after a few rounds of electroshock, have nothing to do with the proportion of his punishments.

And of course, Christianity teaches that this simply is not true. If a Hindu child is killed by an evil that God could have corrected, her soul will burn in hell for eternity regardless of how much suffering she went through; God rewards Christians, not sufferers. God is evil.less

Complicated questions of philosophy and theology reduced to sixty seconds? Nothing says American "Christianity" like childlike simplicity, it seems.

This MLK day, lets remember that Dr. King was only the head of a massive movement that included thousands of people not mentioned in the broad historical record. Black secularists and socialists like Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, who did the groundwork organizing the Million Man March, contributed enormously to the movement. One man does not change history unless he has a million people wo...more

This MLK day, lets remember that Dr. King was only the head of a massive movement that included thousands of people not mentioned in the broad historical record. Black secularists and socialists like Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, who did the groundwork organizing the Million Man March, contributed enormously to the movement. One man does not change history unless he has a million people working with him.less

The politicization of a tragedy is not something Republicans were uncomfortable with after 9/11, I notice.

I'll thank you not to debase one of the best comic strips of all time with this unfunny tripe.

Between a secular interpretation of Christianity and strict fundamentalist creationism, the middle position is the most absurd. People who accept evolution but also believe that God guided or oversaw the process have an insurmountable problem: evolution is a vicious, destructive, inefficient process. Two billion years of ruthless competition had to pass before we arose, and the path between then a...more

Between a secular interpretation of Christianity and strict fundamentalist creationism, the middle position is the most absurd. People who accept evolution but also believe that God guided or oversaw the process have an insurmountable problem: evolution is a vicious, destructive, inefficient process. Two billion years of ruthless competition had to pass before we arose, and the path between then and now was filled with natural disaster, predation, starvation, competition for resources, and interspecies genocide. If this is the process that God used to create us, then God is either a breathtakingly incompetent tinkerer, or an unconscionably vicious brute.less

Really, Christianity doesn't have any analogous laws? Exodus 20:4-7? Mark 3:9? The only difference is that Christianity has been tamed by the Enlightenment; people really COULD be executed for these crimes in the past in Europe, and there were penalties for blasphemy including prison sentences up until the 19th century. Today, TV stations can be fined if they use the word "God" incorrectly. Christ...more

Really, Christianity doesn't have any analogous laws? Exodus 20:4-7? Mark 3:9? The only difference is that Christianity has been tamed by the Enlightenment; people really COULD be executed for these crimes in the past in Europe, and there were penalties for blasphemy including prison sentences up until the 19th century. Today, TV stations can be fined if they use the word "God" incorrectly. Christians do, Christianity has just been fortunately de-fanged in our hemisphere.less

Glenn Beck says that Obama has hidden Muslim symbols in the NASA logo and the right-wing fawns over him. Thousands of Americans point out that Sarah Palin told her followers to "take aim" and used gunsights to identify what should be done to her "targets," and the right is just like, "oh, you people are just looking for something that isn't there." The right just can't take it like they dish it...more

Glenn Beck says that Obama has hidden Muslim symbols in the NASA logo and the right-wing fawns over him. Thousands of Americans point out that Sarah Palin told her followers to "take aim" and used gunsights to identify what should be done to her "targets," and the right is just like, "oh, you people are just looking for something that isn't there."

The right just can't take it like they dish it.less

Christians put up billboards all over the country, demand that politicians agree with their metaphysics and not just their politics, shove tracts in my face in public places every day, harass me on buses and subways by sitting next to me and doing the sales pitch for Jesus, leaving pamphlets and magazines on my door step, wake me up at 8 AM on Saturday to "share the good news" at my front door on ...more

Christians put up billboards all over the country, demand that politicians agree with their metaphysics and not just their politics, shove tracts in my face in public places every day, harass me on buses and subways by sitting next to me and doing the sales pitch for Jesus, leaving pamphlets and magazines on my door step, wake me up at 8 AM on Saturday to "share the good news" at my front door on my property, and then they have a nuclear-grade meltdown when some atheists put up some ads on a bus.

What a bunch of hypocritical wet blankets. Hopefully this column will get a few of you crybabies to shut up.less

As somebody who thinks that traitors like Chuck Colson, a man who conspired with another traitor named Richard Nixon to sabotage American democracy, deserve the highest punishments our society offers, let me just say that I'm glad this crook is declining so rapidly. History will remember him only as the villain's bumbling sidekick whose incompetence was instrumental in the failure of his boss Nixo...more

As somebody who thinks that traitors like Chuck Colson, a man who conspired with another traitor named Richard Nixon to sabotage American democracy, deserve the highest punishments our society offers, let me just say that I'm glad this crook is declining so rapidly. History will remember him only as the villain's bumbling sidekick whose incompetence was instrumental in the failure of his boss Nixon's plot to sabotage the Constitution. The phony piety he's assumed since then to try to get us all to forgive him has sadly worked with so many American "Christians" who are more eager to serve the Repubican Party than they are to serve Jesus, but not with me. Matthew 7:21 cautions us to be careful of these false prophets, and the Christian Post has fallen for it.less

Whoops, that might be confusing. I didn't mean "species" there at the end as a discrete phylogenetic "branch" on the bush of life, I meant "species" as kind. Just a different kind of ancestor of either humans, Neanderthals, or both.

I've read the paper, and I don't see where the article is getting the notion that this is a "human" tooth. The paper did say quite clearly that the tooth does not belong to Neanderthals of the sort that existed in the region 200,000 years ago, but both Neanderthals and humans have ancestors that are different from them existing around 400,000 years ago (keep in mind that species can be contemporan...more

I've read the paper, and I don't see where the article is getting the notion that this is a "human" tooth. The paper did say quite clearly that the tooth does not belong to Neanderthals of the sort that existed in the region 200,000 years ago, but both Neanderthals and humans have ancestors that are different from them existing around 400,000 years ago (keep in mind that species can be contemporaneous with their ancestors, just as you can be contemporaneous with your grandparents). Probably this tooth reflects a species of such an ancestor.less

I notice that in the "war on Christmas," if an atheist complains about the government using taxpayer money to sponsor a religious icon, the Christians get annoyed and say that they're a bunch of whiners. But if a clerk in a privately-owned store says "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas," American Christians act all "offended" and "incensed" and demand that everybody talk so as not to hurt...more

I notice that in the "war on Christmas," if an atheist complains about the government using taxpayer money to sponsor a religious icon, the Christians get annoyed and say that they're a bunch of whiners. But if a clerk in a privately-owned store says "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas," American Christians act all "offended" and "incensed" and demand that everybody talk so as not to hurt their fragile little feelings. Church Colson, the infamous failed saboteur of democracy, thinks that the key to freedom is to force everyone to refer to his holiday by the name he prefers for it.

Someone should remind him that the only Americans who ever banned Christmas were the Pilgrims.less

So what about the other six children? They're in the hands of a couple of obviously incompetent, dangerous parents. Who knows what things they'll leave up to prayer? What if the kids get hungry, and the parents pray for them to be full instead of buying food?

I notice how quickly the "pro-family" message of Christianity dissolves into a cruel joke when part of the "family" is gay. Christians are particularly good at expunging homosexuals from their families, and they never seem to place the guilt where it belongs (on themselves) when a shunned homosexual child hurts or kills him or herself. This study is quite clear: the anti-gay agenda of American Chr...more

I notice how quickly the "pro-family" message of Christianity dissolves into a cruel joke when part of the "family" is gay. Christians are particularly good at expunging homosexuals from their families, and they never seem to place the guilt where it belongs (on themselves) when a shunned homosexual child hurts or kills him or herself. This study is quite clear: the anti-gay agenda of American Christianity has the blood of children on its hands. These "Christians" care nothing for the gospel or the love of poverty that it teaches- they care only about brutalizing the homosexual psyche as deeply as possible. Disgusting, all of them.less