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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 13, 2017
- 2 min
If I was a Shriner . . .
Something that I haven’t experienced in a while happened over the weekend. I was helping my grandfather’s friends in the Shriners load 400lbs of Vidalia onions they are storing at my shop, after cordial greetings and solid tough guy man hand shakes of course, when the one gentleman asks if I was a Shriner.
My response was a light head shake in the negatory and a simple “nope”. He, as was to be expected, then asked “when I would be a Shriner”. Knowing as I do, the organizatio
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 13, 2017
- 12 min
The Great Evolution Debate Notes
This blog post is a quick look inside Host Chris Hanna’s mind as he prepped for the debate. I thought this would be good for those who want to read what went into our side of the debate. Don’t forget to check out the episode right here! Listen to the episode right here! Opening statement (10 mins)
Things to ask in rebuttal to Aaron’s opening
His definition of evolution: Science and fine tuning Looking from the wrong direction: if you start at the solution (the theist way) t
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Christopher Tanner
- May 31, 2017
- 1 min
#83: Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Existence of God?
On this episode Christopher Tanner will be facing off against John Moseman in a live debate. Christopher will be taking the Positive and John will be taking the negative. Christopher will set out to demonstrate that the evidence for the Christian God is lacking and should not constitute a belief in that specific deity. Listen Now! Below is the format to be used and we will hold a live open question and answer session with both Christopher and John after the debate event. 10
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Christopher Tanner
- May 11, 2017
- 1 min
Cellar Door Skeptics #78: Mindless Morality from Prager University
The months are getting warm and so is Tanner’s desire to talk about religion while corelating it with his love of science and politics. This episode of Cellar Door Skeptics will feature the hosts taking down one of Prager Universities videos called If There Is No God Murder Isn’t Wrong. Later they talk with Dr Gleb from Rational Politics Project to look at actual examples of how to talk to people about their irrational beliefs within politics. For the political portion of the
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Christopher Tanner
- Aug 24, 2016
- 1 min
Cellar Door Skeptics 45: Debunking Turek and Trump’s Wager
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/9243264 #45: Debunking Turek and Trump’s Wager
For most of this episode we are once again joined by our good friend Joseph Casper, we roped him in to give us his learned perspective on debunking Frank Turek’s YouTube Video titled “Is God Good”. We also talked with Joseph about the interview that never was; Gloria Haas and her book were scheduled but when the truth was out about our skepticism and apostasy that was all she wrote. We end the
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Christopher Tanner
- May 31, 2016
- 1 min
#33: The Order of Elijah – Christian Metal Apostate Shannon Low!
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/8645354 NEW Episode for Your Ears! #33: The Order of Elijah – Christian Metal Apostate The Pathos article that sparked the interview: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/05/22/the-lead-singer-of-a-christian-metal-band-just-came-out-as-an-atheist In this special edition of Cellar Door Skeptics, we interview Shannon Low the lead singer of The Order of Elijah. We talk about his conversion to Christianity, lapse of faith, and descent
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 30, 2016
- 1 min
#24: Free Speech VS Sensibility
LISTEN HERE: EPISODE 24! In this episode, Christopher and Chris tackle Robert De Niro’s controversial discussion around the Anti Vaccination movie “Vaxxed”, while simultaneously taking on Bad Sex in Literature and what Crazy Shit Chris used to believe. We close the show out with a discussion about one Christian’s proposed evidence that they feel leads atheists back to Christianity.
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00:00 Tribeca & Robert De Niro with The Movie “Vaxxed”
23:00 Bad Sex in Fiction
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 22, 2016
- 1 min
#23: Astronomy Saves The World
Are the presidential rallies getting too violent and losing sight of what they were supposed to be for? Chris and Christopher weigh in on the hypocrisy rampant on BOTH sides lately. After that Daniel Batcheldor stops by to explain to us how astronomy can save the world and plug his amazing upcoming book! To close out the show, some bunk arguments against GMO foods were crushed and Christopher got Chris a bit ripped, leading to his first rant about teaching the controversy. Yo
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 8, 2016
- 7 min
International Women’s Day Episode 21 Notes
International Women’s Day Theme: Pledge For Parity Definition: noun the state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay. #PledgeForParity Links http://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme ***All the information has come from the International Women’s Day website. I have consolidated it for the purpose of my notes on the podcast. Chris Hanna and Myself felt that it would be a benefit to everyone to have all the links in one place along with the flow. P
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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 2, 2016
- 1 min
#17: DEBATE “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God”
Listen Here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/17-debate-presup This week is a first us here at Cellar Door Skeptics, a formal debate on the topic “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God?” Chris Hanna will be taking the moderator position in an effort to quell the fire and the flames between his co-host Christopher Tanner and our guest, Aaron Furlong. Aaron will be taking the positive with a strong background in presuppositional Christian apologetics
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 31, 2016
- 3 min
DEBATE “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God” Bios
DEBATE “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God” Bios We wanted to do a post that both the Bios and the debate rules in it. This is the post. Our goal is to present the most information about our guests and allow for anyone reading this and listening to the show to be able to connect with the debaters. At Cellar Door Skeptics we strive to present a well rounded and fair debate along with the information needed to give everyone the knowledge we hope they gain fro
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 11, 2016
- 1 min
New Promotional Commercial!
Cellar Door Skeptics Promotional Video Well here it is in all its “glory”. The first public commercial created to help everyone understand who Cellar Door Skeptics is and how you can find all our content. Cellar Door Skeptics is a podcast based out of Grand Rapids Michigan featuring hosts Christopher Tanner & Chris Hanna. This podcast will include some video as we build up our show. We will be tackling science, skepticism, atheism, humanism, politics and entertainment. We ar
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 11, 2016
- 1 min
#13: Not Another New Year
#13: Not Another New Year Ring in the new year with Cellar Door Skeptics. In our 2016 inaugural episode, we tackle fracking, gerrymandering and vote manipulation, and whether we should vote only vote two party in a close election year. We also are joined by our friends in the podcast community, Jen and Keith from Not Another Atheist Podcast as help weigh in on these important topics. They will stick around for the full show to provide their expert and sometimes vulgar yet hon
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Christopher Tanner
- Jul 28, 2015
- 6 min
The Generational Fight For Religion
© 2015 Jen Aldrich As none of you may know, one of my many hobbies is genealogy. I find bridging the past to the present absolutely fascinating, and was quite shocked how easily that could be done. My interest started when I decided to research my own family. One side of my family I knew next to nothing about, and the other almost just as little. Once I had started, I realized that many things may actually be nature instead of nurture. Then I began to wonder, what, if anythin
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 26, 2015
- 3 min
Are Believers the Most Arrogant Atheists?
© Religion Erased Atheism. The disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods. There are plenty to choose from and with insufficient evidence, plenty to disprove. So how does one go about doing so? Well, wait until a religion presents credible evidence. One that actually stands out from the ordinary. It makes sense. Instead of doing the impossible and spending a lifetime analysing the seemingly endless line of false prophets, wait for one to impress you. That is
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 24, 2015
- 3 min
What Does “God” Mean to You?
©Fueling Your Consciousness I have smart friends. Like, really smart friends. And I tend to save things they say in response to my prompts on Facebook because they truly blow my mind. Here, my buddy sets the record straight about online religious debates. Enjoy. 🙂 “As an igtheist, I have to say that I think this back and forth is pointless and fruitless. Until there is a solid agreed upon definition of god that can be empirically measured, there is no point in claiming to be
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 3, 2015
- 2 min
Why I Hate the Phrase: “True Christians Don’t Do That!”
It never fails. Any time a situation arises where a Christian, or group of Christians, is in the wrong Christians come out of the woodwork to distance themselves. “A True Christian wouldn’t do that!”
“As a True Christian, I’m appalled and I wish you wouldn’t call these people Christians.” Listen, folks. There are over 40,000 different denominations of Christianity. Each one values certain verses from the Bible more than others. Some denominations are more progressive and valu
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 3, 2015
- 8 min
A Couple of Hellbound Apostates Visit the Wichita Mountains
If you were expecting or even – God forbid – hoping for another rant, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news: I think I need to give it a rest for a while. I’ll say only this before taking my leave of that somewhat continuous, reiterative and baleful project: because of the way fundamentalist religious dogma with all its patriarchal connotations warped the members of my family for generations, I’m genuinely sorry I was born into that family, and somewhat resentful as well. Th
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Christopher Tanner
- May 6, 2015
- 3 min
Texas 2 – Islamic Terrorists 0
© Jordan Smith Two terrorists attempted to murder a group of Texans for carrying out free speech, I’ll give you -4 seconds to guess which religion they followed … It begins with I. The event was held by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which among other things offered a $10,000 prize for the best caricature of the prophet. Two radical Muslims seemed unhappy at the offensive nature of the event & planned to crash the gathering and kill, it would seem, anyone the
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