Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for April; these stats make up part of the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for April 09: MandM 4 NZ Conservative 6 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 11 MacDoctor Moments 18 Keeping Stock 22 […]
Entries from May 9th, 2009
Number 4
May 8th, 2009 Comments Off on Number 4
HalfDone’s April stats are out. Scrubone ranks all New Zealand blogs that “post items interesting to the general public. This is pretty much most things outside of strictly “this is what I did today” style blogs.” I have copied the top 10 below, the other 250 or so can be seen here. I will run […]
Tags: NZ Blog Rankings
John W. Loftus on The Christian Illusion of Moral Superiority Part II
May 8th, 2009 5 Comments
In my previous post, John W. Loftus on The Christian Illusion of Moral Superiority Part I, I argued that Loftus’ position was based on a confusion between ontological and epistemological foundations. I will now address his arguments against divine command theory. Loftus’ Arguments Against a Divine Command Theory After misconstruing the divine command theory as […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Atheism · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · John Loftus · Robert Adams · William Wainwright
John W. Loftus on The Christian Illusion of Moral Superiority Part I
May 7th, 2009 14 Comments
Several Christian thinkers, most notably, C S Lewis, John Hare, Robert Adams and William Lane Craig have argued that Theism provides a superior foundation for moral obligation than Naturalism does. Most of these thinkers defend this notion by developing and defending a divine command theory.[1] John W Loftus is aware of this and in The […]
Tags: Atheism · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · John Loftus · Philip Quinn · Robert Adams · Stephen Evans · William Alston
Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs – March 09
May 6th, 2009 12 Comments
The MandM Top 10 New Zealand Christian Blogs for March 09, in the category of public discourse, are ranked by identifying Christian blogs then comparing Half Done’s March 09 stats with Tumeke’s March 09 stats and averaging them to obtain their overall March 09 ranking. Rank. [previous top 10 rank] Blog MandM (Half Done Tumeke) […]
The Coming Week: Two Apologetics Forums & Bloggers Drinks
May 6th, 2009 Comments Off on The Coming Week: Two Apologetics Forums & Bloggers Drinks
This Thursday, 7 May, Thinking Matters Auckland Lunchtime Forum: Bringing Faith and Logic out of the Closet at Laidlaw College, 12.30 – 1.30 pm. This Thursday, 7 May, Auckland Blogger Drinks from 6.30pm at Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland – if you are a blogger or a bloupie (blogger groupie) and you […]
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Christian Blog Rankings Report for March 09 – Tumeke
May 6th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Blog Rankings Report for March 09 – Tumeke
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for March; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for March 09: Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 27 NZ Conservative 28 Keeping Stock 33 MandM 35 [Incorrect uniques used due […]
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
