Did Pope Francis Really Say All Atheists are Redeemed?
by Brandon Vogt
Filed under Atheism
Yesterday, the Internet buzzed about some recent remarks from Pope Francis. A headline at Huffington Post read: "Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics". A similar Reddit article became yesterday's second most-shared piece. But was the headline right? Did the Pope really suggest that all atheists are redeemed? And if so, is this a shift in Catholic teaching? To answer those questions we must first note the Gospel passage Pope Francis preached on when he made the... Read More
Atheists, We Need Your Help!
by Brandon Vogt
Filed under Atheism
Since launching Strange Notions last week, we've been keeping close tabs on the feedback. And it's been excellent. We've heard from hundreds of people through email, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, the Contact Form, and more, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. However, among the negative reactions, the most common critique was that Strange Notions doesn't feature enough atheist contributors. Atheists do have an equal platform in the comment boxes—in fact we've had more atheist commenters... Read More
Jesus Would Have Been an Atheist?
by Brandon Vogt
Filed under Historicity
In a recent interview with The Guardian, popular atheist Richard Dawkins made a strange and audacious claim: "I wrote [an] article called ‘Atheists for Jesus,’ I think it was...Somebody gave me a t-shirt: ‘Atheists for Jesus.’ Well, the point was that Jesus was a great moral teacher and I was suggesting that somebody as intelligent as Jesus would have been an atheist if he had known what we know today." His proposal, of course, gives rise to the question, what new knowledge—scientific,... Read More
