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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

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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International Women’s Day Episode 21 Notes

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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The Power of Touch, the Immediacy of Presence

Christopher Tanner

May 19, 2015
4 min

The Power of Touch, the Immediacy of Presence

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An Open Letter to the Whole Christian World

Christopher Tanner

Apr 27, 2015
4 min

An Open Letter to the Whole Christian World

Here is what I wish I could say to the whole Christian world: Christians, the hour of your deliverance is at hand. My paraphrase of St. Paul is quite intentional: it is he and his awful system that I wish to engage on your behalf. Your freedom depends on a single, simple act. Winning it will be almost effortless, and probably painless as well. All you need do is give close and honest consideration to a single proposition. Rather than tell you outright what that proposition is

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Moving the Values of Myth: A Reflection on Easter

Christopher Tanner

Apr 7, 2015
5 min

Moving the Values of Myth: A Reflection on Easter

© David Teachout From moment to moment, our lives can embody any of the multiplicity of purposes that we can identify with. The stories we tell, from socially created myths to benign exaggerations expressed to friends and colleagues, project the particular purpose we want to make front and center. This can be due to a desire to express an idea to another or to make sure we’re on the same track we first set out upon. Whatever that purpose is, the values that come along for the

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Christopher Tanner

Apr 6, 2015
12 min

For the Sake of Your Children…

I begin this entry with a metaphor that I recognize as clumsy but that seems to be the best I can muster: sometimes when I’m thinking about my 30-year-old son Jim, my mind does something that I could almost describe as throwing up two projection screens side-by-side before its own gaze. On one of those screens I view vignettes from the years that Jim and I have known each other and spent together. On the other I view snippets of my own childhood and the role my father played

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Chris Hanna

Apr 3, 2015
5 min

A Letter from the Editor

Recently a response from a dear friend of mine made its way through one of the many channels of social media and rightly states a case for introspection within our community – a self analysis, an understanding of opposition perspective, and – most importantly – a change if deemed necessary; to refuse change would be to act with an ideology akin to what we regularly rally to ridicule and weaken. The entirety of the response can be found immediately below and is being reproduc

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Divine Causation Results In An Absence Of Meaning

Christopher Tanner

Mar 24, 2015
5 min

Divine Causation Results In An Absence Of Meaning

© David Teachout Mockery is easy, particularly when presented ideas are so clearly farcical. There exists so many examples of religious absurdity, from declarations of the end of the world to seeing Jesus on a piece of toast, that poking fun and snorting with laughter has become a past-time akin to baseball for some. Unfortunately for the practice of mockery, it offers little help for any form of engagement to result in an increased understanding. Perhaps expanded understandi

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Ignorance Loves Ignorance, the Religious Wall Around You

Christopher Tanner

Mar 18, 2015
3 min

Ignorance Loves Ignorance, the Religious Wall Around You

Religion makes people ignorant, and worse, it trains them to love and adore it. They actively fight to stay ignorant, even to the point that they put their children at risk. Just look at history, read up on the child crusades. Look at the presen; the children who hold up the “God Hates Fags” signs, the children being trained in Africa to be soldiers, or suicide bombers for ISIS. Another example would be creationists in America; they are genuinely setting up their children for

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Christopher Tanner

Mar 18, 2015
2 min

Obligations of Atheism

I’ve been under a lot of stress lately and haven’t been able to focus on anything for long, before my mind starts to wander. This has resulted in me wanting to write, but not being able to hear myself think in order to do so. Anyone else have that problem sometimes? I’m sure everyone does. We’re all only human, after all. Anyway. I thought it would help if I asked for some “assignments” from others. What would they like to see me write about? What topics do they want to hear

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Atheists Can Be Moral: Definitions Make All the Difference.

Christopher Tanner

Feb 18, 2015
2 min

Atheists Can Be Moral: Definitions Make All the Difference.

It is often claimed by theists that atheists are incapable of being moral, because atheists lack a “moral authority.” I was recently confronted with the notion that it is possible for me to practice “good ethics”, but not possible for me to be moral, because I don’t have an acting moral authority, outside myself. I don’t want to beat around the bush too much, so here are some definitions: 1 mor·al Pronunciation: mr-l, mär- Function: adjective 1 a : of or relating to the judgm

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Understanding the Rumors of a Christian God

Christopher Tanner

Jan 7, 2015
2 min

Understanding the Rumors of a Christian God

Here at Atheist Analysis we try to bring the most well balanced materials to our viewers. We do not want people to believe without evidence but sometimes we feel it is necessary to entertain ideas that we have already come to a conclusion on. This is what our series Conversations With Christians is all about. Our goal was to provide a safe environment for Christians that allowed them to express what they believed on different topics. We wanted to provide a space where Christi

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Christopher Tanner

Dec 17, 2014
1 min

Godless Offering 16 Free Range Brain Farming: Is Your Morality Caged or Self Defined

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Christopher Tanner

Nov 20, 2014
4 min

An Atheist’s Problem of Natural Rights

At the risk of sticking my neck out with a highly unpopular opinion within American politics, I would like to discuss the topic of rights, and how they seem incompatible with an atheistic worldview. This is because rights often seem to be seen as a sort of objective moral standard, while from an atheistic perspective, the world is rather nihilistic, and any morals that exist come from humans, not outside of it. As we have discussed in my previous post on the argument from mor

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Chris Hanna

Oct 21, 2014
3 min

Childhood’s End

Where are the soldiers of god for the children in need today. We hear the campaign slogans, protest chants, and Chick tract reiterations for the sanctity of life, the equality of the fetus, and the validity of all life from the moment of conception to birth… But it gets painfully quiet thereafter. The children of the state wander from desolation to squalor within the great absence of morality, permeating the impoverished family unit; mother, father and 1.5 children… Events wi

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Christopher Tanner

Oct 1, 2014
6 min

Being Gay is Not a Choice. Being a Hateful Person Is and Religion is No Longer a Valid Excuse

Humanity needs to grow up and realize the world is the way it is, no matter how hard we believe, pray, or want it to be something else. Being gay is not a choice and straight people are not going to stop having gay babies any time soon. If you honestly think being gay is a choice then you are ignorant or homophobic or both, it’s that plain and simple. Do people honestly think that people would choose to be gay when they have to put up with the kind of hate and physical abuse

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Why is Philosophy of Religion Not Taken Seriously in Academic Circles?

Christopher Tanner

Sep 10, 2014
4 min

Why is Philosophy of Religion Not Taken Seriously in Academic Circles?

I recently came across an article on Reddit that discussed how philosophy of religion is not taken as seriously as other sub-disciplines of philosophy in academic circles. Even in religious institutions like Notre Dame, such a discipline is not taken as seriously as other disciplines, and students are reportedly told to avoid doing their dissertations on the subject. While it was not mentioned in the article why exactly this was the case, I think that I can offer a speculativ

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Christopher Tanner

Aug 29, 2014
6 min

Are Atheists Moral People?

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