Randal Rauser's Blog, page 22
March 8, 2022
What Happened When Christians Stopped Allegorizing Canaan?
During the Reformation, Protestants widely rejected the allegorized interpretations of the Canaanite genocide that had become de rigueur since Origen. With that safeguard gone, it was not long before they were appealing to Joshua to justify their own genocides. To illustrate, here is a passage from Philip Jenkins, Laying Down the Sword: And don’t think […]
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March 7, 2022
Why God Did Not Command the Slaughter of the Canaanites, Briefly Explained
This article provides a brief synopsis of a case explaining why God did not command the slaughter of the Canaanites. It is based on a debate opening statement that I gave last year. And it provides an introduction to some of the arguments I develop at length in Jesus Loves Canaanites. “Slaughter” is defined as the […]
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March 5, 2022
Hugs and Statistics: A Review of Us Versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community
Andrew Marin. Us Versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community. NavPress, 2016. 213 pp. Andrew Marin begins Us Versus Us by introducing us to a photograph of Marin himself and his wife hugging a gay man at the 2010 Chicago Gay Pride Parade (see below). They didn’t know the man but he was prompted […]
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Another Gospel? The Irony of Alisa Childers
Alisa Childers has become very popular in the last few years promoting some scary thing she calls “progressive Christianity”. Sadly, Cameron of Capturing Christianity continues to boost Childers. If you want a capsule summary of how offensive Childers is, take a look at this Frank Turek tweet in which he promotes Childers’ “course” that explains […]
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March 4, 2022
The Limits of Defending Biblical Violence By Appealing to a Big, Wild, and Dangerous God
Over the years, I have seen many Christians attempt to address problems of divinely sanctioned biblical violence by reframing them as virtues: in short, the bug is a feature. How so? On this re-narration, the problem of biblical violence should remind us that God is big and wild and dangerous. This offers an essential chastening […]
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March 3, 2022
Strawmanning Atheists? An Interview
I was just interviewed on the “Steelmanning God” podcast where we discuss my book Is the Atheist My Neighbor? and my video ‘Strawmanning Atheists’: ?
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March 1, 2022
A Wide Ranging Theological Discussion
I just appeared on a new YouTube channel called “Mourning Theology” for a wide-ranging theological discussion. Check it out! ?
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February 28, 2022
How to Respond to Bad Arguments on Social Media: A Test Case
In this video, I address the question of how to respond to bad arguments on social media by countering the pro-Russian disinformation that one individual shared with me regarding the recent invasion of Ukraine. ?
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February 26, 2022
Explaining the Concept of Atheistic Fundamentalism
In my recent interview on Canadian Catholic, I explain how atheist apologist John Loftus is a fundamentalist atheist. I’ve been discussing the phenomenon of fundamentalist atheism for years now. But I often get the reply that fundamentalism cannot apply to atheism because fundamentalism is essentially a religious phenomenon. That, of course, assumes that atheism cannot be […]
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February 25, 2022
On New Atheist Apologist John Loftus
I just appeared on Canadian Catholic to discuss the life and legacy of new atheist apologist John Loftus: ?
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