The Case Against Miracles

by John W. Loftus

It’s just that all religious beliefs are ridiculous to some degree. That doesn’t mean we should just ridicule ridiculous religions and paranormal beliefs. This book is evidence against that misinterpretation. But the more we ridicule religion then the more we marginalize religious faith-based claims. I further argued that the best way to treat religions isn’t to do so philosophically by treating some religious doctrines more seriously than others, but by treating religion and its doctrines according to the already existing parent discipline of Religious Studies and its subsidiaries, Comparative Religion, and Anthropology of Religion, along with Biblical Studies, Koran Studies, and so on, if done correctly as I explain, by eschewing faith in the classroom just as surely as we should do in other disciplines of learning. Faith in any specific religion shouldn’t get special treatment in the university. The doctrines of religions and their miracle stories should

Study of religion should/will be treated equally to all philosophical issues beliefs