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		<title>Does Richard Carrier Exist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sick and tired of the way that extremist conservative claims about history – such that Abraham Lincoln actually existed – are taken seriously, but serious, well-thought-out, well evidenced and reasonable claims – like the claim that Richard Carrier does not exist – are demonised. This is manifestly unfair. As Tim McGrew has recently shown, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Empirical Insights on Terrorism and Ideology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=3221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What should we make of the often heard reference to &#8220;religious terrorism,&#8221; coupled with the innuendo that religion is a uniquely dangerous influence when it comes to just how far people will go in the name of their God, even to the point of outright terrorism? &#160; I know, finding rhetorically cute but terribly skewed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lawrence Krauss on God and Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/lawrence-krauss-on-god-and-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/lawrence-krauss-on-god-and-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=3205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Ah, those silly creationists are at it again. Every real scientist knows that evolution is fact, and then these people with no real experience in science come along and bumble through the issues without understanding them at all. And as for those geographers! I have no real time for geography myself, but pah! Everyone knows [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Born Atheists? Science and Natural belief in God</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/born-atheists-science-and-natural-belief-in-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/born-atheists-science-and-natural-belief-in-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[basic beliefs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is atheism or theism more natural for human beings? According to online author Tim Covell, “Everyone is born atheist. Religion is learned.” Over at the “rational response squad” you’re treated to the claim that “Many people don&#8217;t know it but everyone is born an Atheist, it&#8217;s not until a child has religious beliefs Pushed on them [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reason Rally 2012 &#8211; Dollars or Sense?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/reason-rally-2012-dollars-or-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/reason-rally-2012-dollars-or-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=3120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I recently blogged on the Reason Rally when I became aware of it, commenting on the gratuitous practice of assuming that to advocate an atheist or non-theist outlook is ipso facto to advocate reason and rationality. But today something else caught my eye, prompting a question: How much would you pay for one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reason Rally 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/reason-rally-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/reason-rally-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=3104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been rallies in the past of people who would have been happy to see this or that (or all) religions purged from society. Such gatherings, thankfully, have seen a change in tone and tactic over the years. What is being billed as “the largest secular event in world history,” the “Reason Rally” will [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Episode 045: What if God Were Really Bad?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/episode-045-what-if-god-was-really-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/episode-045-what-if-god-was-really-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=3015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, the last podcast episode for 2011. This time I&#8217;m looking at &#8220;the &#8220;evil god challenge&#8221; as posed by Stephen Law in a fairly recent article by that name. Isn&#8217;t the evidence for a good God really no better or worse than the evidence that an evil god? In short, no. Here I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>102</slash:comments>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Here it is, the last podcast episode for 2011. This time I&#8217;m looking at &#8220;the &#8220;evil god challenge&#8221; as posed by Stephen Law in a fairly recent article by that name. Isn&#8217;t the evidence for a good God really no better or wo[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Here it is, the last podcast episode for 2011. This time I&#8217;m looking at &#8220;the &#8220;evil god challenge&#8221; as posed by Stephen Law in a fairly recent article by that name. Isn&#8217;t the evidence for a good God really no better or worse than the evidence that an evil god? In short, no. Here I explain why I think (as I suspect many may think) that the evil god challenges has major philosophical shortcomings, in spite of being an argument worthy of our attention.
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		<title>On the evolution of moral beliefs</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/on-the-evolution-of-moral-beliefs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/on-the-evolution-of-moral-beliefs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alvin Plantinga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolutionary argument against naturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meta-ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephen law]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a moral realist. That means that I think there really are some moral facts. It is wrong to do some things, and it is right to do some things, and this isn’t just a vent of emotion or an expression of my will, it’s really true. Stephen Law is also a moral realist, but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Glenn Peoples and Stephen Law to Discuss the &#8220;Evil God&#8221; challenge on Unbelievable Radio</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/peoples-and-law-to-discuss-evil-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/peoples-and-law-to-discuss-evil-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week it will be my pleasure to have my third discussion on the Unbelievable radio show with host Justin Brierley. My partner in conversation will be Stephen Law, who teaches philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. Although the only public comments I have made about Stephen at this blog have been for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>138</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why are the British Atheists so intimidated?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/why-are-the-british-atheists-so-intimidated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/why-are-the-british-atheists-so-intimidated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Lane Craig]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Peter Byron who made this. If you liked this post, feel free to help support this project.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>100</slash:comments>
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		<title>Internet Sceptic Meets Real World: Reginald Finley and Bart Ehrman</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/reginald-finley-and-bart-ehrman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/reginald-finley-and-bart-ehrman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Testament Studies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reginald Finley is an internet sceptic. There are many such sceptics, who see themselves as part of a thriving community of thought, which in actuality amounts to a (virtual) crowd of usernames at internet forums who perceive themselves at the cutting edge of the genuinely critical approach to biblical studies. They are strident non-believers, they [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/reginald-finley-and-bart-ehrman/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Carrier on the Resurrection part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/richard-carrier-on-the-resurrection-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/richard-carrier-on-the-resurrection-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 07:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At his Internet Infidels website and in a number of talks including a debate with Michael Licona on the Resurrection of Jesus, Richard Carrier presents an argument for “Why I Don’t Believe the Resurrection Story.” I have decided to put together a response to the reasons that Carrier offers for not believing in the resurrection [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Could atheism be a properly basic belief?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/could-atheism-be-a-properly-basic-belief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/could-atheism-be-a-properly-basic-belief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 11:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A conversation I had the other day reminded me of what is now a rather old argument in relation to the question of belief in God (old in terms of twentieth century arguments anyway). Essentially, the issue was this: If my purported experience of knowing God / knowing that God exists via some sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Debate Review: William Lane Craig and Sam Harris</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/debate-review-william-lane-craig-and-sam-harris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/debate-review-william-lane-craig-and-sam-harris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of the 7th of April 2011 (the 8th of April here in New Zealand), Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated Atheist author and speaker Sam Harris on the question Is Good from God? Brian Auten has made the mp3 audio of this debate available over at Apologetics 315. What follows is my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dawkins gets science and religion wrong. In other news, man bites dog.</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/dawkins-gets-science-and-religion-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/dawkins-gets-science-and-religion-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. Pointing out that Richard Dawkins bungles the relationship between science and religion is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Next to getting confused about what arguments for religious belief actually say, he has built the latter part of his career on the practice of being wrong about the relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 038: Zeitgeist</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/episode-038-zeitgeist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/episode-038-zeitgeist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the request of a couple of listeners, this episode is a response to the documentary: Zeitgeist. As I promised in the episode, here are a few links. First, a link to some astronomical illustrations: http://www.tracer345.org/zeitgeist.html And here are the links to my three part blog series on evidence for the historical Jesus outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>At the request of a couple of listeners, this episode is a response to the documentary: Zeitgeist.
As I promised in the episode, here are a few links.
First, a link to some astronomical illustrations: http://www.tracer345.org/zeitgeist.html
And here[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>At the request of a couple of listeners, this episode is a response to the documentary: Zeitgeist.
As I promised in the episode, here are a few links.
First, a link to some astronomical illustrations: http://www.tracer345.org/zeitgeist.html
And here are the links to my three part blog series on evidence for the historical Jesus outside the New Testament, as promised:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
You might also find it helpful to check out my previous blogs on copycat theories about the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

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		<itunes:keywords>apologetics, atheism, podcast, religion</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Dr Glenn Peoples</itunes:author>
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		<title>Why Ricky Gervais is a Comedian and not a Philosopher</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/why-ricky-gervais-is-a-comedian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/why-ricky-gervais-is-a-comedian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ricky Gervais has given us all a cheery holiday message about why he’s an atheist. People who believe in God don’t need proof of his existence, and they certainly don’t want evidence to the contrary. They are happy with their belief. They even say things like “it’s true to me” and “it’s faith”. I still [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does self sacrifice make a greater difference in godless universe?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/does-self-sacrifice-make-a-greater-difference-in-godless-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/does-self-sacrifice-make-a-greater-difference-in-godless-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Erik Wielenberg’s book Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe. I’ve already commented a couple of times on crucial junctures in that book where the author’s argument against theologically grounded ethics depends heavily on conceptual confusion and misrepresentation. It would get a bit tedious to write a blog entry every time [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Theological Liberalism and Street Cred</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/theological-liberalism-and-street-cred/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/theological-liberalism-and-street-cred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology / Biblical Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal theology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Dominic Crossan, the late Robert Funk, John Shelby Spong, or New Zealand’s own Lloyd Geering.  All call themselves Christians, none of them believe that God exists (except in some emotive or mythological manner), and all are adamant that Christianity should change. It should give up belief in a personal creator, in myths about miracles, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Musings on debate outcomes</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/musings-on-debate-outcomes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/musings-on-debate-outcomes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This random thought was prompted by me hearing a radio interview with Dinesh D’Souza today. It seems to me that in the wake of obvious defeats in public debates, some atheists throw their former champions under a bus. When Bill Cooke debated William Lane Craig on the existence of God, Dr Cooke very clearly lost. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>61</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do atheists know more about Christianity than Evangelicals?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/do-atheists-know-more-about-christianity-than-evangelicals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/do-atheists-know-more-about-christianity-than-evangelicals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The short answer is: No. You may have noticed a bit of buzz recently about a new survey that (so the buzz is saying) shows that atheists know more about Christianity than Christians do. I’ve seen self professed atheists make this claim online before, and now their bias confirmation tendencies have kicked into overdrive with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>109</slash:comments>
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		<title>Friendly Fire: What are they saying about Stephen Hawking’s latest book?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/what-are-they-saying-about-stephen-hawkings-latest-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/what-are-they-saying-about-stephen-hawkings-latest-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not a physicist or a cosmologist. When Stephen Hawking’s recent book came out, and his media releases gave the impression that he had some new theory and had now shown in some new way that God didn’t create the universe, I made an unwarranted assumption. At first sight, I made the assumption that other [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arif Ahmed, morality and empiricism</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/arif-ahmed-morality-and-empiricism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/arif-ahmed-morality-and-empiricism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest episode of the Unbelievable? radio show is out this weekend. This time it features a discussion between me and Arif Ahmed, an atheist from the University of Cambridge. We were discussing the moral argument for theism. The discussion was certainly interesting enough, although it was divided up so as to fit into the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Has Hawking said something new?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/has-hawking-said-something-new/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/has-hawking-said-something-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=2058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a bit of a buzz about Stephen Hawking’s latest book The Grand Design. I haven’t read it, and since I’m not all that familiar with intricate physics and cosmology I probably won’t read it (another reason is that my existing research interests are keeping me more than busy enough). But the impression [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>100</slash:comments>
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		<title>Debate Review: Flannagan V Bradley</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/debate-review-flannagan-v-bradley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/debate-review-flannagan-v-bradley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Is God the Source of Morality?” Is it rational to ground right and wrong in commands issued by God? Matthew Flannagan (left, affirmative) vs Raymond Bradley (right, negative) University of Auckland, 2nd of August 2010 Few subjects in philosophy are more interesting to me than the meta-ethical question of what makes any moral claims true. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Billboard Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/more-billboard-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/more-billboard-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some observations from Matt Flannagan over at M and M reminded me of the existence of the atheist campaign to evangelise the world through billboards. In honour of that campaign, I suggest launching another, much more important campaign: Any lifeguard who tells me this is sure to put my mind at ease. If you liked [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>131</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the queerness argument (possibly) backfires</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/how-the-queerness-argument-backfires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/how-the-queerness-argument-backfires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[J. L. Mackie was famous for defending two claims. Firstly, God doesn’t exist (a claim defended in his book, The Miracle of Theism). Secondly, there are no moral facts (a position called moral nihilism or an error theory of morality, defended in his book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). According to Christian thinkers over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawkins and Scientism</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/dawkins-and-scientism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/dawkins-and-scientism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientism, as I am using that term here, is an approach to studying an issue that assumes that if something is a question of fact, then it can (at least very probably) be answered by science. A very strong form of scientism would be logical positivism. Logical positivism, now a largely abandoned perspective, said that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>95</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Great Pumpkin Objection</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/the-great-pumpkin-objection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/the-great-pumpkin-objection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last podcast episode on Plantinga and properly basic beliefs, I briefly discussed the “Great Pumpkin Objection.” As it’s a subject worthy of a blog post of its own, and given that I know some people prefer things in writing, I thought I’d add a blog entry focused on that objection. Alvin Plantinga has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stephen Law on the Cosmological Argument</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/stephen-law-on-the-cosmological-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/stephen-law-on-the-cosmological-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second time in a pretty short space of time that I’ve criticised something said by Stephen Law. I don’t want people to think that I’m picking on him. It’s a coincidence, I swear. I had a book of his out of the library and critiqued his (apparent) claim that Christians who use [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins and the Beliefs of Children</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/richard-dawkins-and-the-beliefs-of-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/richard-dawkins-and-the-beliefs-of-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 11:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[angry atheism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I read a few comments by Richard Dawkins on the phrase “a Christian child” or “a Muslim child” etc. he writes: A phrase like “Catholic child” or “Muslim child” should clang furious bells of protest in the mind, just as we flinch when we hear “One man, one vote.” Children are too young to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>114</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Lottery Fallacy Fallacy</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/the-lottery-fallacy-fallacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/the-lottery-fallacy-fallacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[classical apologetics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some arguments are like mosquitoes. They get slapped and well and truly squashed – unambiguously defeated in plain sight for all to see, obviously crushed. The smeared body is witnessed. But then as soon as you try to relax again, that familiar whining sound fades in again. You think, Didn’t I just squash you? Yes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Episode 035: Sam Harris, Science and Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/episode-035-sam-harris-science-and-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/episode-035-sam-harris-science-and-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 35 is an analysis of a recent talk given by Sam Harris on science and human values. The talk was part of a TED conference, and you can see part 1 here. Harris thinks that he has argued that moral facts are actually scientific facts. I think he has failed, and here I offer [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Episode 35 is an analysis of a recent talk given by Sam Harris on science and human values. The talk was part of a TED conference, and you can see part 1 here. Harris thinks that he has argued that moral facts are actually scientific facts. I think [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Episode 35 is an analysis of a recent talk given by Sam Harris on science and human values. The talk was part of a TED conference, and you can see part 1 here. Harris thinks that he has argued that moral facts are actually scientific facts. I think he has failed, and here I offer an explanation of how I think he has failed. In brief, I think his entire presentation is an exercise in circular reasoning.
Harris has a new book on the subject, The Moral Landscape, which is to be released later this year. If you&#8217;d like to order a copy, please use this link and the Book Depository will look kindly on me.
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		<itunes:keywords>atheism, Ethics, Philosophy, podcast</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>Dr Glenn Peoples</itunes:author>
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		<title>The Making of an Atheist (Review)</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/the-making-of-an-atheist-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/the-making-of-an-atheist-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James S. Spiegel, The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief (Chicago: Moody, 2010), 141 pages including notes. One of the most endearing features of James Spiegel’s new book, The Making of an Atheist, is that it is quite short. You might think I’m kidding, or that this is a slight on the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Religion and Education &#8211; What has actually been shown?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/religion-and-education-what-has-actually-been-shown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/religion-and-education-what-has-actually-been-shown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I either read or hear an atheist tell people, as though to make atheism sound like a more intellectually plausible position, that there is a measurable connection between education and atheism. In short, the message is that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fixed it for you</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/fixed-it-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/fixed-it-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spotted Richard Dawkins&#8217; DVD for sale at richarddawkins.net yesterday. I can&#8217;t believe they let such a whopping typo make it all the way through the production process. I fixed it. If you liked this post, feel free to help support this project.]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we Forget, Loftus</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/lest-we-forget-loftus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/lest-we-forget-loftus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of his debate with Dinesh D&#8217;Souza on whether or not the Christian God exists, John Loftus says that even if he didn&#8217;t win, he learned a lot. I asked him if, given his loss (as a few people see it &#8211; including Loftus I think) in this debate, he was still hoping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>D&#8217;Souza vs Loftus: Does the Christian God exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/dsouza-vs-loftus-does-the-christian-god-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/dsouza-vs-loftus-does-the-christian-god-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 9th of February 2010 at the University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana campus) Dinesh D&#8217;Souza debated John Joftus on the question &#8220;Does the Christian God Exist&#8221;? There exists a broad consensus among those who I have read assessing the debate, whether Christian or sceptic (including John Loftus himself). I won&#8217;t tell you what that consensus [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Zealand atheists vs free market economics</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/new-zealand-atheists-vs-free-market-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/new-zealand-atheists-vs-free-market-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A group of zealous atheists in New Zealand have been raising money to run an advertisement campaign: advertisement for &#8211; well nothing, really (quite literally). The campaign was a spinoff from an identical one in the UK where signs declaring the (probable) non-existence of God. They&#8217;ve hit a snag. The company that the group would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Command Ethics: When will sceptics update their arguments?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/divine-command-ethics-when-will-sceptics-update-their-arguments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/divine-command-ethics-when-will-sceptics-update-their-arguments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that some online unbelievers have trouble staying up to date with the fields in which they take themselves to be experts. Take Keith Augustine over at the Internet Infidels for example. He believes that he has the divine command theory of ethics (DCT) all sewn up. For some reason, divine command ethics is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins on Pat Robertson on Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/richard-dawkins-on-pat-robertson-on-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/richard-dawkins-on-pat-robertson-on-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many readers will know, shortly after the earthquake in Haiti that did so much damage and claimed so many lives, Pat Robertson (a somewhat notorious televangelist involved in what has been dubbed &#8220;Word of Faith&#8221; theology) said something (I suppose I should say that he said yet another thing) that Christians in general didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On atheism &#8211; Here we go again</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/on-atheism-here-we-go-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/on-atheism-here-we-go-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Gleeson over at exchristian.net wants to correct common misconceptions about atheism. Unfortunately he ends up perpetuating a major misconception of his own, and also messes up a little Greek. Commenting on the very first alleged misconception, he says: 1. Atheism is the belief that no gods exist. This statement&#8217;s ubiquity is exceeded only by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>Loftus on eternal torture</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/loftus-on-eternal-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2010/loftus-on-eternal-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=1112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I blogged on what traditional Christian theology says about hell. I cited the examples of Tertullian, Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards and Isaac Watts, all of whom taught in one way or another (Tertullian being the most graphic) that when the saints get to heaven they will derive great happiness and enjoyment from watching the torture [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Steven Pinker comes clean: It&#8217;s not about science, it&#8217;s about atheism</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/pinker-its-not-about-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/pinker-its-not-about-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Francis Collins&#8217; reputation is as is the brilliant scientist who cracked the human genome. Because of his outstanding qualifications, not too long ago he was appointed as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It&#8217;s also no secret &#8211; because Dr Collins makes it no secret &#8211; that he is a Christian. It is the latter [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Agreeing with Bertrand Russell</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/agreeing-with-bertrand-russell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/agreeing-with-bertrand-russell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that I&#8217;m likely to agree with the late Bertrand Russell on a subject like religion. In most ways he was simply dead wrong. However there is one claim he makes that I can happily echo. He said: I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does perfect knowledge require total love?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/does-perfect-knowledge-require-total-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/does-perfect-knowledge-require-total-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a pretty bizarre claim today, courtesy of one Mr John Loftus. That claim is that omniscience is incompatible with the idea of a God who would inflict wrath. What inspired this unusual claim? Why, Oprah Winfrey interviewing Mike Tyson &#8211; naturally, what else? Apparently Mr Loftus thought Mike was just a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skeptics and the annoyance of the little things&#8230;. like facts.</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/skeptics-and-the-annoyance-of-the-little-things-like-facts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/skeptics-and-the-annoyance-of-the-little-things-like-facts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years I&#8217;ve noticed a pattern. I&#8217;ve seen plenty of skeptics present arguments against Christianity or certain aspects of Christianity like its moral code, its metaphysical beliefs and so forth. What I&#8217;ve noticed is that when a spokesperson presents an argument (say, against the &#8220;horrible&#8221; God of the Old Testament) and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Religion a Barrier to “Clear Thinking” on Morality?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/is-religion-a-barrier-to-clear-thinking-on-morality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/is-religion-a-barrier-to-clear-thinking-on-morality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Simon Clarke, religion is &#8220;the biggest obstacle to thinking clearly about social and political issues.&#8221; Yes, the biggest. [UPDATE 6th August 2010: that link no longer works. Here is a link to a different presentation of what looks like the same article.] The main reason that he gives is roughly like this: Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bradley on the alleged contradiction of Christian ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/bradley-on-the-alleged-contradiction-of-christian-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/bradley-on-the-alleged-contradiction-of-christian-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit of a fan of the moral argument for the existence of God.  I think that theism provides a foundation for moral truth. There are a few ways that Christians have made this argument, but the model that I have settled on is a divine command theory of ethics, where moral right and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baggini: The New Atheism is cringe material</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/baggini-the-new-atheism-is-cringe-material/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/baggini-the-new-atheism-is-cringe-material/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Baggini is an atheist who&#8217;s quite happy for people to know about it. I wish he weren&#8217;t, but hey, whatcha gonna do? Recently Mr Baggini has commented on the embarrassing spectacle that is the &#8220;new atheism,&#8221; a movement marked by volume and vehemence rather than substance and insight, spearheaded by the likes of Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naturalism and Purpose: Rumours of them being seen together are false</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/naturalism-and-purpose-rumours-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/naturalism-and-purpose-rumours-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to atheist celebrity Richard Dawkins in his work Growing up in the Universe, &#8220;We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA &#8230; That is exactly what we are here for.&#8221; In the minds of some, perhaps most, this robs human beings of purpose. I want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging with critics of religiously grounded ethics: A depressingly bleak scholarly landscape</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/engaging-with-critics-of-religiously-grounded-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2009/engaging-with-critics-of-religiously-grounded-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent podcast episode, “Stop Being a Christian and Start Being a Person,” one of the things I talked about is that we Christians should not assume that because a scholarly endeavour is overtly Christian, it will be good. I also stressed that we should be prepared to recognise the gifts and goodness manifested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The untruthful thoughts of a reluctant atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2008/the-untruthful-thoughts-of-a-reluctant-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2008/the-untruthful-thoughts-of-a-reluctant-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recall that not all that long ago, I posted my review of a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath. One of the points I made is as follows: Hitchens says that religion dissolves our duty to uphold the truth. Now as I said at the time, as a Christian the duty to uphold the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episode 015: Why become an atheist?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2008/episode-15-why-become-an-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2008/episode-15-why-become-an-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s back! The last month has been pretty crazy for me: changing job and moving house being among the main culprits for this state of affairs. But after much ado, here it is, Episode 15! This time I&#8217;m asking a simple question: Why be an atheist? And if you&#8217;re not one, why become one? And [...]]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>0:27:59</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>It&#8217;s back!
The last month has been pretty crazy for me: changing job and moving house being among the main culprits for this state of affairs. But after much ado, here it is, Episode 15! This time I&#8217;m asking a simple question: Why be an [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>It&#8217;s back!
The last month has been pretty crazy for me: changing job and moving house being among the main culprits for this state of affairs. But after much ado, here it is, Episode 15! This time I&#8217;m asking a simple question: Why be an atheist? And if you&#8217;re not one, why become one? And if you are one, why try to persuade other people to become one?
I&#8217;ve started a new trend with this episode. Some previous episodes were just too long for a lot of listeners, so I&#8217;m making a fairly strict rule that episodes shall not exceed forty minutes. This one&#8217;s just under twenty eight minutes, so I&#8217;m off to a good start. Also, I&#8217;ll only be putting episodes up each fortnight rather than weekly, just because I don&#8217;t have quite as much time as I did before &#8211; plus with all these people downloading an episode every week I literally couldn&#8217;t afford the bandwidth!
So here it is, enjoy. As always, comments either here or by email to be discussed on the show are more than welcome. And as always &#8211; subscribe using the iTunes store if you can.
Glenn Peoples

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		<title>Are Christians Nearly Atheists?</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2007/are-christian-nearly-atheists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2007/are-christian-nearly-atheists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins said it. Plenty of atheists have said it, and bloggers (like Cynical C) reproduce it. It&#8217;s the claim that atheists are just like Christians who go one god further. Here&#8217;s the claim: We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruse vs Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2007/ruse-vs-dawkins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2007/ruse-vs-dawkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit slow on the uptake with this. Since &#8211; astoundingly &#8211; I don&#8217;t have much time for Richard Dawkins, I tend not to follow Dawkins-related controversies. I think the truth about Dawkins is pretty simple. He&#8217;s a popular scientist who has let it all go to his head and hence thinks he&#8217;s qualified [...]]]></description>
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