The Don Johnson Show, 8-14-06 Why does everyone hate the Jews? From Hezbollah to Mel Gibson to the Muslim murderer who shot up a Jewish center in Seattle, there has been a lot of anti-Semitism in the news lately. Don and Brandon examine some of the professed reasons...
Apparently pets can help. And a five minute cool down after working out. Glad we got that cleared up.
From a column in the LA Times this week:In a new book, "Stumbling on Happiness," Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert suggests that happiness is largely an anticipatory experience. Human beings, he explains, are the only animals that have the ability...
The Don Johnson Show, 5-11-06 Don and Brandon discourse on a variety of subjects, including: According to reports, many people are actually believing The Da Vinci Code. Do we have to debunk the existence of Darth Vader next? Unbelieving parents are sending their kids...
One of the main areas of confusion regarding the Christian truth claim seems to be an inability to see the difference between an historical truth claim that was verifiable when it was made and one that was never verifiable. For example, Tomer emailed me this question:...
The Don Johnson Show, 5-17-06 We address some more topics requested by listeners, including: Is God beyond good and evil? That is to say, is God good because He does good things, or is something good simply because He says it is? Why would God create someone he knows...
The Don Johnson Show, 4-7-06 Don and Brandon discuss the research released this week that suggests Jesus may have walked on ice instead of water. Responses to listener email include: a discussion of parakeets that lay golden eggs a refutation of the notion that an...
I make the point often that only a God provides us with an objective standard for morality. If there is no God, there is no such thing as objective morality. (The reason I make this point is to lead people to the converse truth, which is that if objective morality...
Here is a response to Allan, who commented on the previous post. His remarks are indented:To begin with, I do not reject the account of the resurrection in particular simply or solely because I wasn’t there to witness it myself. Whatever happened 2,000 years ago...
There is a common perception that religious claims are all rather weak epistemologically. That is to say that when it comes to supporting their truth claims, people expect that religions all ask for the same thing: a pretty big leap of faith. Religions, it is...
Islamists and "tolerant" Americans may not like it, but as Mark Joseph explains in this excellent column, we need more evangelizing, not less.
The Don Johnson Show, 3-23-06 Do South Park and Rolling Stone have it right about what Scientologists believe? Yes. Do Scientologists have any good reason to believe those things? Find out in this debate with dianetics expert David Barrington. Mr. Barrington actually...
The Don Johnson Show, 3-16-06 Don and Brandon address listener emails from around the world. Topics include Is God an egomaniac? Why does the Christian God require worship? How could a loving God only save a portion of humanity? Why doesn’t God give us more...
The Don Johnson Show, 3-9-06 I write often on my blog about how I think Mormonism is a religion that offers no good reasons to support its truth claims. Most recently I noted an example of this: recent DNA findings that suggested some historical inaccuracies in the...
“The Glove Affair”, a sex education / AIDS fundraising event, is so ridiculous that even the (self professed) liberal columnist who described it on the opinion pages of the LA Times expressed queasiness about letting her thirteen year old daughter attend. Not that it...
In previous posts about Mormonism I have suggested that it is a religion based not on evidence or reason but on fideistic blind faith. For example, just this morning I posted a response to a radio show listener which said:[There is] an important distinction between...
I received this nice email from a listener to the podcast (click here for iTunes) of some of my radio show debates and thought it was worth posting here. My response follows.Dear Mr Johnson, The evidence you proposed, as far as I understood it, was that it is more...
As Chuck Colson writes at the bottom of this column about bedroom police in Florida, "Reality has a way of reinforcing the Christian worldview, whether we like it or not. And it makes all our wonderful utopian schemes look really silly."...
A year ago I complained that nobody was saying anything about the perils of RFID chip implanation. I stand corrected. Read this book. And check out the authors’ website here.
I wrote below about the difference between Christian and Mormon epistemology. Simply put, Christianity accepts reason and evidence in discerning truth about reality and Mormonism does not. Unfortunately, the same is true of Islam (and most other religions, as far as...
Check out Touchstone Magazine for this brilliant piece on Johnny Cash. The whole article is tremendous, but the last few paragraphs are so accurate and profound that I have to reprint them here in their entirety. (By the way, you can listen to my recent sermon on...
Today’s LA Times movie review of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe offers an interesting take on the story’s clear messianic imagery. According to Carina Chocano, Aslan the lion can’t really be considered a type of Jesus because Jesus would never...
Today’s front page LA Times article on abortion offers a clear picture of the attitude and philosophy behind this insidious practice. Between the sheer emotional callousness of the doctor (and many of the patients) to the outright idiocy of the...
One of the great weaknesses of American Christianity is that success is defined almost completely by the number of people any particular person or group can get to attend their church or come to their event or buy their book or watch their program, etc. While large...
I found an interesting exchange in the comments section of a previous post. Greg had been accused of not being very "loving" or "Christ-like" in trying to convince some other readers that they were wrong about reality and in danger of hell. He...
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