How to Be an Atheist: Working out the Worldview of a Skeptic, Free for CAPC Members
Mitch Stokes’ ‘How to Be an Atheist’ shows the work of the worldview of a skeptic.
From Cthulhu to Christ: Why H. P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Despair Is Still Worth Reading
Lovecraft reminds me of just how small and loathsome I truly am apart from Christ; and he does so with carefully wrought and vivid imagination.
God’s (Still) Not Dead: 12 Modest Sequel Proposals
CaPC came up with the following ideas at our last pitch meeting, and each of them is 100% guaranteed to make for a positive™, uplifting™, and family-friendly™ viewing experience.
“God’s Not Dead” and the Angry Atheist Professor: That Was Not My Experience
I’m concerned that God’s Not Dead perpetuates a false stereotype: that of the bully atheist philosophy professor who is out to destroy every Christian student’s faith.
Dubious Depictions of Faithfulness in ‘God’s Not Dead’
The cross Christians are called to take up by ‘God’s Not Dead’ is more akin to a merit badge, a gold star on a class assignment.
ELSEWHERE: Here Are 20,000 Reasons Harris Won’t Give up His Scientism
Pope Misspoke: How Faith and Goodness Are Tied to One Another
“Even good actions that are not first derived from a love to God will be morally flawed—tinged with some degree of selfishness and deceit.”
ELSEWHERE: Expelled for Atheists
Music Matters: Death, The End of All Things and Hope Laid Up in the Heavens in Muse’s “Exogenesis Symphony”
Music Matters: David Bowie, Still Not Quite an Atheist
Music Matters: The 21st Century Return of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Church Music
Will Atheists Find What They’re Looking for in Their Temples?
“What we want from awe is transcendence, and no beauty on earth can promise us that.”
A Christian walks into a Church for Atheists…
It might be tempting for Christians to look at this derisively, but can something that encourages people to slow down in this harried age of ours, and seek community and quiet reflection, really be all bad?
Where are humanists when it hurts?
But the larger question, of how groups such as the American Humanist Association can provide aid and comfort (beyond fundraisers, that is) to communities affected by tragedies, remains.
Glee’s “Grilled Cheesus”: Is Religion Beyond Reason?
When Glee addresses issues of faith, it’s a hit and miss affair.
The David Bazan Interview: Coming to Terms with Doubt
“I like when anyone tells their story honestly. That’s always good. “
