I’m subscribed to the GotQuestions.org “Question of the Week” newsletter — because I love you, my readers, because I love you — and I’ve been meaning to write about an answer they sent out, actually cross-posted from their new spin-off site CompellingTruth.org. (My admittedly shallow understanding of the distinction is that Got Questions is more [...]
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More Christian semantic games
Posted by NFQ on December 2, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/12/more-christian-semantic-games/
Sick (because of the devil?)
I’ve been sort of dead to the world lately because I’ve been sick. One of those normal, seasonal-change-related, upper respiratory deals, but it wiped me out enough to keep me home from lab last week and asleep more than half the time. Coincidentally, I was also involved in a conversation about the practice of faith [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 21, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/11/sick-because-of-the-devil/
Would anything change your mind?
I brought this question up at another one of those Bible study meetings I mentioned a while back. We were discussing whether it was appropriate for a Christian to question, complain about, or protest the things happening in their lives or the things they were required by circumstance to do. Given that I’ve named this [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 8, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/11/would-anything-change-your-mind/
How good is your god?
If I didn’t know that this post was from a Christian missionary’s blog (via), I probably wouldn’t have guessed it from the opening: I feel weird when things work out for someone and they tell me about it and then they sum it up by proclaiming that “God is good!” I always want to say [...]
Posted by NFQ on May 12, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/05/how-good-is-your-god/
Better than a hallelujah?
It’s about time we had a look at another shockingly oblivious Christian tune. My mouth was literally hanging open when I heard this on the radio. I could not believe the lyrics. Well, I don’t believe the lyrics — and I was struggling to accept the obvious fact that some people can broadcast, listen to, [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 21, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/03/better-than-a-hallelujah/
Bible dealbreakers: God’s wrath
I’m doing a series on what I’d like to call “Bible dealbreakers,” reasons why I reject the Bible’s authority and therefore reject Christianity. This is the sixth part in the series, and I’ll post a wrap-up tomorrow. According to (most mainstream) Christians, God is loving, merciful, and benevolent. Some go so far as to say [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 1, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/03/bible-dealbreakers-gods-wrath/
Our go-to good guys
When you’re trying to describe something bad or wrong, you might look to a comparison with one of the iconic “bad guys” from history, totalitarian dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Mao. The commonness of this conversational trope is what brought us Godwin’s Law. Similarly, if you want to illustrate the goodness of something or [...]
Posted by NFQ on January 25, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/01/our-go-to-good-guys/
How does Satan operate?
Box Brown hits another one out of the park with his new Everything Dies comic. He writes, This is, as best as I could find, how Satan operates according to a Fundamentalist Christian point-of-view. It’s really hard to research this because there are so many small sects and people making different things up. Satan is [...]
Posted by NFQ on January 19, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/01/how-does-satan-operate/
God’s important plans
I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona several days ago. I don’t have much to add to the more eloquent words of others, but I do want to call your attention to one related response in particular. Martin at The Atheist Experience wrote a spot-on reaction to Congressman Mike [...]
Posted by NFQ on January 14, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/01/gods-important-plans/
God is not (good)
When I watched this clip from God on Trial, I thought of a guy I was talking with a couple weeks ago. He told me that he believed in “God, sort of.” When I asked him to clarify, he explained that he believed there was a supremely powerful being guiding the universe and everything that [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 30, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/11/god-is-not-good/
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