Posts Tagged ‘ christianity ’

“Behold, it was very good.”

Dec 6th, 2008 | By Shalini Sehkar | Category: Commentary

“God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” —Genesis 1:31

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that…



Steven Baldwin Gets Punk’d By Two Local Radio Hosts

Nov 16th, 2008 | By Robin Zhang | Category: Media

It amazes me too, but there actually is a right-wing Christian Baldwin brother (given that the family is known for its liberal values, who would’ve thunk it?). His name is Steven Baldwin, of Biodome and The…



The Burial of Jesus

Oct 28th, 2008 | By Shalini Sehkar | Category: Commentary

One of the questions that we should be asking when considering the story of the burial of Jesus is: Does the account of the burial and resurrection of Jesus in the gospels match up with what…



Responses to common Christian apologetic claims

Oct 27th, 2008 | By Shalini Sehkar | Category: Commentary

The Bible says the Earth is unsupported. (Job 26:7)
This is perhaps one of the best pick-and-choose Christian arguments, in which they single out a few Biblical verses that seemingly support modern science. Christians who make…



Tracy Kerlee is What’s Wrong About America

Oct 22nd, 2008 | By Robin Zhang | Category: Commentary

What do you get when you combine a huge steaming pile of “faith”, sprinkled with a bit of xenophobia and racism? Meet Tracy Kerlee, who is being interviewed in this video by the PBS news show…



Does faith healing really work?

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Shalini Sehkar | Category: Feature

This is a follow-up to a previous post.

Ever wondered why people supposedly get out of their wheelchairs and run about on stage during a healing crusade; but no one has ever regrown an amputated limb?

There are…



I Used to Love Jesus

Oct 4th, 2008 | By Katie Kish | Category: Commentary

I write a lot of negative things, and a lot of people get really pissed off at me thinking that for some reason just because I look critically at the Poster Boys of atheism and the…



What would a 21st century democratic theocracy look like?

Sep 5th, 2008 | By Chris Ray | Category: Feature

Last month, I wrote about how tired I was that so much of this year’s election coverage has been about which of our two leading American presidential candidates loves Jesus more. This remains the case-I still…



The Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital- and why we should care

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Chris Ray | Category: Feature

Taken at face value, virtually the entire Gospel account of the life of Jesus reads like a deeply disturbed and unbelievable fantasy. An itinerant Rabbi wanders a Roman backwater spouting a bizarre, remarkably un-Jewish eschatology, he…



Is Jack Chick going senile?

Aug 31st, 2008 | By Chris Ray | Category: Commentary

If you have ever been accosted in the subway, on a bus, or in an airport by a disheveled evangelist passing out little credit card-sized comic books about Jesus, or if you have ever been browsing…