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The MandM blog addresses Christian philosophy, theology, ethics, jurisprudence, civil liberties, politics and social commentary from a distinctly kiwi perspective, utilising a deliberate blend of academic and popular writings, with a good measure of
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Contra Mundum: The Flat-Earth Myth
A while back I made a passing comment on my blog criticising an advertisement which claimed that prior to Columbus the earth taught the world was flat. In response I received the following email from a high-school student in the US, I’ve been study...
Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science
This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam. Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at ...
Common Historical Myths About the Church
This post is part update, part recycle. Earlier on in this blog’s life, I ran a small series of posts last year on common historical myths about the Church that are so pervasive in society that most Christians fall for them. Anyway, after rec...
Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part II
In a previous post, Sunday Study: Interpreting the Sixth Commandment Part I, I discussed some translations of the sixth commandment of the Decalogue. I began with the King James Version (KJV), “thou shall not kill.”[1] I looked at problems with t...
Sunday Study R 13: Romans, Revelations and the Role of the State
In a previous post, Sunday Study: 666 The Number of the Beast, I exegeted Revelation 13’s infamous reference to the mark of the beast, in that post I argued that the first beast is a reference to Rome; a world empire, built on seven hills that rule...
Weight Watchers and the Historical Atrocities Argument
We've all heard the slogan that atheism is superior to theism because of all the atrocities committed in the name of religion. If you flick through the pages of the new-atheist publications by the likes of Dawkins, Hitchens, Loftus, Harris, et al you...
John Loftus on Madeleine Flannagan and Women and Other Red Herrings
A few days ago I posted, Sunday Study: Slavery, John Locke and the Bible; in this post I defended an argument proposed by John Locke that the Bible does not support slavery. In that article I quoted from John Loftus’ book “Why I Became an Atheist...
