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The Avengers: Age of Ultron & the Evangelical Fish Bowl
[Warning! Spoiler Alert! This post concerns The Avengers: Age of Ultron and contains Spoilers.] On May 14, 2015, Steve Camp, pastor of Cross Church wrote a post on Facebook entitled: “WAKE UP CHURCH: Reverence Matters.” In that post, he wrote the following after seeing The Avengers: Age of Ultron: “Recently saw new Avenger movie. Incredible…
Jurassic World gives us food for thought on Man’s Dominion and the Tragedy of Death
I’ve seen Jurassic World twice now and I wouldn’t mind a third helping! I love the entire premise! What’s not to love? It’s got dinosaurs, Chris Pratt, those awesome gyrosphere vehicles and even includes several nods to the original movie for us diehard fans. And did I mention dinosaurs?? [Spoiler Alert! I’m discussing a movie…
Why Using the R-Word Says More About You Than A Person With Disabilities
Today is Spread the Word to End the Word day, an annual day of awareness to help folks understand that using the R-word (retard) as an insult is just as offensive as a racial slur. So we need to stop using it. Let’s face it: A lot of people use the word and don’t think…
Charleston/Huntington, WV Ranks #10 of Bible-Minded Cities Across America… But What Does That Mean?
According to Barna.org, Charleston/Huntington, WV ranks #10 of America’s Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities, with 47% of the population qualifying as Bible-minded. This compares to the Most Bible-Minded city, Knoxville, TN [52%] and the Least Bible-minded, Providence, RI [9%]. The most Bible-minded cities tended to be from the South, while the least tended to be…
Christmas & the Archko Library
Every Christmas and Easter, I get tons of hits on The Archko Volume, or Archko Library by the Rev. W. D. Mahan. Proponents of this work of pseudo-apocrypha, including televangelist Benny Hinn, claim that the Archko Volue is an authentic historical work recovered from the Vatican Library which authenticates many of the events of the…
How Televangelist Pat Robertson Should Have Answered Concerned Mother Michelle’s Dinosaur Question
A viewer named Michelle asked the following of televangelist Pat Robertson: “I have three teenage boys and now two of them are questioning the Bible. This scares me! They tell me if the Bible is truth then I should be able to reasonably explain the existence of dinosaurs. This is just on of many things…
Why I Didn’t Need to Call NASA To KNow the World Isn’t Going To End on December 21, 2012
Yes, I’m still offering Johnny Came Home free on Kindle today. No, that’s not what this post is about. I’m writing this post because I found out that NASA was/is being flooded with calls and emails from folks wanting to know if Doomsday is here. The Mayan Long Calendar ends on today, December 21, 2012….
2012, the Mayan Calendar & the Free Kindle Book at the End of the World
The Mayan Long Calendar ends on December 21, 2012 and everyone’s seeing that as a sign of an impending Apocalypse. Well, not everyone. The Mayans were actually looking forward to it as something of a Golden Age per some scholars. In any case, Christians need not fear this hocus pocus. Jesus adamantly stated even He didn’t know the…
What Christmas Means and Why I Hope Bart Ehrman Gets It Someday
A recent Newsweek cover [Dec. 17, 2012] pictures the Nativity and claims that Bart Ehrman will answer such questions as “Who was Jesus? Did he have a wife? How many wise men were there? Why Bethlemhem? In a manger or a cave?” Unfortunately, the cover is referring to an article inside called “The Myths of Jesus.” In…
Revealed Science? Why Televangelist Pat Robertson Denies A Young Earth
A viewer named Michelle asked the following of televangelist Pat Robertson: “I have three teenage boys and now two of them are questioning the Bible. This scares me! They tell me if the Bible is truth then I should be able to reasonably explain the existence of dinosaurs. This is just on of many things…
Objections to Young Earth Creationism Often Reveal A Basic Misunderstanding of Science
Recently, I ran across a few comments about this image on a site called atheistthinktank.net. I really don’t expect fans on these sites, but I was surprised to see that their basic objections reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the debate. For example, take this comment by someone who sadly identifies themself as nogodsforme: “What the eff? I…
Defending Genesis 