Monthly Archives: September 2014

Shane Hayes, Part 7: All Things Being Unequal.

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Welcome back. We’re discussing Shane Hayes, who wrote the new apologetics book The End of Unbelief. He has an argument that boils down to “I feel happier believing in Christianity than I did being what I erroneously thought was an … Continue reading →

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Shane Hayes, Part 6: His Actual Argument.

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Hi folks! Hope your weekend is going swimmingly so far. We’ve been looking at a new apologetics book by Shane Hayes, The End of Unbelief, which bills itself as “a new approach to the question of God.” Today we’re actually … Continue reading →

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Shane Hayes, Part 5: A Short Definition of Apologetics and, Apparently, Theism.

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Hi again! We’ve been discussing a new apologetics book by Shane Hayes and today we’ll be starting to get into the meat of his argument–the one he thinks is “a new approach to the question of God.” Here is the … Continue reading →

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Shane Hayes, Part 4: Will You Stay Or Will You Go Now?

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Hey, y’all! We’ve been talking this week about newly-published author Shane Hayes’ new apologetics masterpiece, The End of Unbelief, wherein he outlines what his book cover calls “a new approach to the question of God.” Last time, we talked about … Continue reading →

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Shane Hayes, Part 3: The Pursuit of Happyness.

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Hi and thanks for joining me! We’ve been talking lately about Shane Hayes’ new apologetics book, The End of Unbelief. It’s about how he was raised a fervent Catholic, spent a brief time as a “militant atheist” as well as … Continue reading →

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Shane Hayes, Part 2: Dorkness and Lies.

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Last time we talked about the author Shane Hayes and his new book, The End of Unbelief, which is supposed to be the new singing dancing apologetics book to persuade atheists into converting. I’ll be talking today about just how … Continue reading →

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The Cult of Before Stories: Shane Hayes, Part 1.

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

A while ago, Kirk Cameron popularized a fairly-new evangelism technique: claiming that he knows all about atheism because he, himself, was once an (gasp! Shock! OMG!) atheist. He thought it gave him some kind of leg up on authority and … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Sign?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

I was reading today about some horoscope writer who is sick and about how her fans are very upset that she can’t write their horoscopes on time, and it made me remember some woo I briefly got into in the … Continue reading →

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Drilling Down.

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Today I saw this piece in Religion News Service about how some evangelicals are still fighting tooth and nail against the idea of marriage equality. I was pleased to notice that younger evangelicals are starting to come around to the … Continue reading →

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Left Behind: The Pandering.

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Captain Cassidy

Sometimes I hear about a movie sequel that just didn’t ever have to happen. I’m not even sure why someone felt the need to make some of these. The world didn’t need a Conan the Barbarian sequel, for example. The … Continue reading →

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