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Videos: What motivates young people to vote In an election year when young people, 18 to 30, are disparaged for their apparent lack of interest (and here), KPLU has begun a video project to find out

10 Tough Problems in Christian Thought and Belief I am planning four books, two of which I have begun writing. The first book in the series, which is well under way, provides the framework for the entire project. The title is “10 Tough Problems in Christian Thought and Belief.” My mock-up of the cover appears as the profile picture. The other books are elaborations of a few of the tough problems that I describe in this book.

The 10 problems are:
1. Suffering and Evil for Humans and Animals
2. How Do You Know About God? The Epistemological Brick Wall
3. The Bible Fails as Revelation
4. The Concept of God Fails Because of Contradictions
5. Which Monotheism? Which Christianity?
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6. The Gospels Fail as Historical Documents
7. Resurrection Fails as a Theological Asset
8. Blood Sacrifice Fails as a Theological Asset
9. There Are Too Many Negatives About Jesus
10. There Are Too Many Negatives About Paul
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These tough problems have been the focus of theological and scholarly debate for centuries. Ordinary believers, however, are usually unaware of the problems—and, commonly, they don’t want to know about them. Christianity’s problems are systemic and are rooted firmly in scripture. Quite rightly Mark Twain observed that “…the best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.” I am an enthusiastic advocate of biblically based atheism, and my writings are grounded in my desire to show that Christianity has been falsified. Any ONE of the 10 tough problems that I describe is enough to falsify Christianity, but together they constitute an overwhelming case that it fails as a credible system of belief. After careful reflection on each problem, the question that can be posed is: How do you get around this problem and still hold on to Christianity?

The second book that I have started writing is “God Is Wrath: A Secular Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Romans.” Number 10 of the tough problems is Paul’s theology, personality and prejudices, and the chapter dealing with Paul is entitled, “There Are too Many Negatives About Paul.” Paul’s Letter to the Romans—which is one of the charter documents of the Christian faith—illustrates abundantly many of the negatives about Paul.

The other two projected books, which I have not yet started writing, are “Jesus and the Demons: A Secular Commentary on The Gospel of Mark” and “A Layperson’s Guide to Bad Theology.” “Jesus and the Demons” is an elaboration of two of the tough problems, Number 6, “The Gospels Are Not Reliable Historical Documents” and Number 9, “There Are Too Many Negatives About Jesus.”

The guide to bad theology will elaborate on several of the problems, for example, Tough Problem 4, “There Are Too Many Contradictions in the Concept of God” and Tough Problem 8, “Blood Sacrifice Fails as a Theological Asset.”

Some fellow atheists brought me onto their podcast, check it out here: http://amiwrong.podomatic.com/entry/2012-10-14T20_54_57-07_00

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A new article, for some reason the format of my site will not allow me to indent...I apologize. Just pretend that the proper indentation is happening.

American ‘Rape Culture’ | Bigot Vanquisher The people that claim that the United States is a 'r**e culture' say that is is for some of the following reasons: 1) women are taught not to get r**ed ins...