More Debates Posted – I Have Been Busy This Week

What award? The “New Lows in Nastiness for a Self-Proclaimed Christian” Award. Congratulations! Mr. MacDonald, evidently, has been imbibing in the Boar’s Head Tavern so much that not only has he developed a very foul mouth, but his memory has been shot as well. I was given this link this evening—BE WARNED. Mr. MacDonald likes profanity (notice how regular that

Hey, you know that show, “Celebrity Mole”? We have an IRC mole now. This morning a conversation broke out in channel about the importance of exegesis, the rules of hermeneutics, and eventually the entire concept of creeds, Scripture, inspiration, etc. Well, hardly any time later we find an anonymous blogger named “Purist” who is intent upon going after yours truly

Irrationality drives me nuts. There, I said it. I lose my low-level sanctification in a big fat hurry when someone demonstrates by their words or actions that they haven’t the first interest in thinking logically or fairly. Ask the folks in #prosapologian. I can be very long-suffering with some folks, but demonstrate that elementary logic is missing in your thinking

OK, so what am I behind on now…wanted to have an article up on the sources I’ve discovered that must lie behind the “redacted Hebrew text prophecied by the Dead Sea Scrolls” defense offered by Dave Hunt (turns out the editor on this self-published edition is big into the “Hebrew originals underlying the Synoptics and part of Acts” theory, and

I noted in the blog entry for 2/27/04 that I had contacted Dr. Douglas Cowan in an effort to obtain from him documentation for the charges he made against me in print in his book, Bearing False Witness? An Introduction to the Christian Counter-cult. After waiting nearly a month, I wrote to Dr. Cowan a second time. Here is the

The stories about the debauchery of the New York fund raiser for Democratic candidates Kerry and Edwards are all over the net (not nearly as much on televised sources). Combine that with this story and you simply have to wonder.

The Parrot A young man named Ray received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, insulting, and laced with profanity. Ray tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music, reading poetry, and anything