"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
The next time someone tells you that “Religion is the cause of all the war in the world”, I’d invite you to point them at the statistics below which compare the atrocities perpetrated by theists to atheists.
To be clear, this in no way excuses the abuse of religion as an excuse to perpetrate evil, but hopefully it should provide a little bit of perspective…
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. I’ve posted two of his videos so far (Video #1|Video #2) and I will posting the remaining ones over the coming weeks:
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. Over the next few weeks I’m going to continue posting one of his short videos responding to the common claims of Atheists:
There have been some good discussions so far. I had originally planned on doing a competition here to win copies of Trent’s book, but after these recent exchanges, I’m just offering them to anyone (theist/atheist/agnostic/…) who joins in the discussion (while my stocks last!).
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be posting one of his short videos responding to the common claims of Atheists:
I’m still thinking about my conversation with an atheist this weekend. Try as I might, I was unable to convince him that “faith” and “reason” aren’t enemies. I needed backup. Where was Peter Kreeft when I needed him?!
Christopher Hitchens vs William Lane Craig debate the question: “Does God Exist?”
Yesterday I posted a video of some Dominican Nuns reacting to Pope Francis’ election. Here is the other video which I really wanted to post during my Lenten blog fast:
For those of you who don’t live in the US, the chap on the right is Penn Jillette, one half of the magic group “Penn & Teller” and a vocal atheist. I’m pretty sure everyone knows the guy on the right, the former British tabloid writer and editor, Piers Morgan.
Until recently I had no idea that Piers called himself a Catholic, but when Pope Benedict resigned he became incredibly vocal about it, tweeting and saying many things that would give a first year theologian a rather impressive aneurism.
I love the way it takes an Atheist such as Penn to explain to a professed Catholic such as Piers the basics of Catholicism…