This week, Jonny Scaramanga joins me to talk about his latest project, the Pope and all the fuss people make about him, and finally we talk about my new Patreon campaign!
This week, my special guest is Vyckie Garrison who joins us to discuss her latest talk (see video below). We also chat about her recent project to save her home. You can easily contribute by buying a copy of Bible Stories. All sales this week will go to her!
This week, Ryan joins me as we casually take down a “philosophy” professor and his pathetic arguments for the existence of suffering as evidence of God. We also talk about free will and even yellow journalism! You won’t want to miss this show.
This week, my guest is former Rev. Bob Ripley, who was a Senior Minister of Canada’s United Church. He’s written a new book, and joins me on the show to talk about his recent experience of coming out of the atheist closet Don’t miss out!
This week, Jeff joins me as we review the disasters that are “Noah” and “Heaven is Real”. We watched these terrible movies so you never have to. So don’t miss out on this spoiler-alert show!
After a relaxing vacation, we’re back to regular podcasting! This week, we discuss the tragedy of Jonestown and the familiar political situation that created it! Also on the show, we have in interview with God. You won’t want to miss out!
This week, Ryan joins me as we talk about the Pope excommunicating the Mafia, and how the Vatican Bank (more correctly known as the Institute for the Works of Religion) and its long history of corruption. We also discuss some of my challenges selling the e-book in the wild west of publishing! Don’t miss out!
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This week, I’m proud to announce the completion of “Bible Stories”! After years of talking about it, the book is finally available for sale. So after listening to the show, be sure and support us by buying your copy today!
This week, we review the movie “God’s Not Dead”. I would warn you about spoilers, but this isn’t so much a fruit as it is a total corpse. All that’s left are the bones of criticism.
This week, my guest is Catherine Dunphy, former director of ‘The Clergy Project,’ and now working on an outreach project along the same vein called ‘Rational Doubt*‘ on Patheos. We talk about her childhood, her de-conversion, and her good work!
*(Update: The blog no longer exists)
This week, Ryan joins me as we talk about a new study that links Internet use with the decline in belief, a scientist weighs in and says debating creationists is a waste, and finally we discuss the Boy Scouts revoking a troop’s charter over a gay counsellor. A
This week, Jeff joins me once more to talk about the Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate (better late than never!), and the fallout, as well as Brandeis University and their decision to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s honorary degree. All that and much more!
This week, Jeff joins me as we talk about Christianity making a comeback, we review the movie “God’s Not Dead”, and we talk about the new ‘documentary’ “The Principle”, and how famous scientists were tricked into being in a movie about how the sun revolves around the earth!
We are back! Yes, “The Good Atheist” has been resurrected, and what better way to celebrate than by talking about the new Cosmos series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Also on the show, Ray Comfort decides to call out Neil and suggest that the Bible is actually scientific. Finally, we announce the launch date for the book. Can you really handle all this excitement?
By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard about this movie: God’s Not Dead. It’s the story of a bunch of Christians getting suckered out of their money, saving God from a bunch of super meany atheists. Like most of the cheesy crap they throw on film, this particular Christian movie is like a giant cameo of failed careers. Kevin Sorbo plays a hateful atheist teacher who rejects God when his mother dies of cancer when he’s 12, while his equally underemployed pal Dean Cain plays a man so self-absorbed, he dumps his partner when she finds herself diagnosed with cancer (for failing at not dying of cancer).
Now, I won’t go into detail about the film. Dan Fincke already wrote a behemoth article about it, so if you want to know precisely why the film sucks, you can read his review. I was more interested in how other Christians would respond to it.
A blog called “Gospel Spam” recently reviewed it, and despite a few nice things to say, the reviewer basically took a giant crap all over it:
Christian film writing has been notoriously bad since its beginning. Almost every Christian film you’ve ever seen has followed a template: an emotional story line which is a bit unrealistic using gratuitous tear-jerkers to illicit some gratuitous tears with the obligatory tip of the hat gospel presentation worked in not so subtly to make it clear that this is a Christian film because its aim is to evangelize…
When you have good actors and good technical presentation, this is where bad writing just jumps off the screen and spits in your face.
The rest of the review is fine, until the author gets to the part where – despite being somewhat sympathetic to the fact that atheists were mischaracterized in the movie – displays his own severe lack of understanding about what it means not to believe in fairy-tales:
While I do believe that some atheists are atheists because of personal tragedy and many of them are former Christians, atheists are atheists because they love their sin (Romans 1:18). They suppress the truth they already know in unrighteousness…While atheists deny the God they already know exists, they do so because they hate Him and love sin. For a primer on the condition of man, read Romans 3:10-18.
How is this any fucking better than the bullshit in God’s not Dead? It’s the same mischaracterization, the same ‘demonization’ as the crap on celluloid he’s reviewing. Hey buddy, if you’re going to try and come to the defense of non-believers, how about doing a little fucking research outside of the New Testament, dude?
