Even Dawkins can see the cultural value of Christianity: Various Christian commentators have made much of what U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower once said in late…
Some insightful commentary by an important philosopher of science: I realise that it is not good form to label newish books ‘classics,’ but some recent…
Some great assessments of the shortcomings of atheism: While we can seek to take atheists seriously (after all, some of my readers were former atheists,…
Yes they actually do hate God: Having just penned another piece on the war against God, I of course got the usual angry atheists writing…
Christianity offers us everything during this time of crisis – atheism offers us nothing: While I was out for a walk this morning, I prayed…
Socrates was said to have been sentenced to death by the state because he was accused of atheism (impiety) and corrupting youth because he did…
It is often claimed by atheists, misotheists and Christophobes that religion is the world’s biggest killer. There are two major problems with this. First, by…
Jean-Paul Sartre the famous French atheist and novelist wrote a lot about freedom. As an existentialist philosopher, he celebrated raw freedom, and the ability to…
Imitation, as they say, is the highest form of flattery. Thus when your avowed enemies start copying, mimicking and adopting the very things they claim…
Ignatius, 2012. This is a very important book indeed. It is not just about the threat of expansionistic Islam, but about Western naivety and gullibility.…
We all know of angry atheists and belligerent misotheists. Richard Dawkins is of course a prime example of this. But there are some atheists who…
This weekend a whole bunch of frisky God-haters will be descending upon Melbourne. With all the zeal and passion of an evangelistic tent-meeting crusade, the…
The excitable atheists are in town again. A big revival meeting of zealous atheists is just about to happen again in Melbourne. In this hyper…
There has been a spate of ornery and evangelistic atheists who have appeared lately, ripping into religion in general and Christianity in particular. I have…
Some folks have declared April 1 to be National Atheist Day. Be that as it may, in the past four or five years a spate…
The international atheist conference in Melbourne hasn’t even started yet, but that has not prevented some noted God-haters from letting off a bit of pre-conference…
In his famous work of fiction, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky observed, through his character Smerdyakov, “For if there’s no everlasting God, there’s no such thing…
Harvest House, 2007. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens. These have now become almost household names. They are some of the…
The neo-atheists are having a field day, with vitriol-soaked books pouring from the presses of late. The new militant crusade of the God-haters may indicate…
Worldviews matter. The way one deals with the big questions about life (e.g., Why am I here? Is there a God? What is my purpose?)…