Matthias at the wake-a-thon

It is 10 pm and he is still awake.

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High Five fo the Day #4 - Answering Muslims: First Lady Michelle Obama Dons Hijab

David Wood has made some great comments on the fact that the Obama administration seems to be playing down the differences between the Islamic nations and the west. Complete with Michelle Obama wearing a Hijab.

Since the First Lady of the free world is now wearing a hijab so as not to offend Muslims, I'm wondering if she's willing to go even further. Some Muslims will be offended unless Mrs. Obama wears a full burka, so she should probably order one if she doesn't already have one. She'd better make sure she lowers her gaze in the presence of men, and she'd better not object to sex with Barack, since he's now free to beat her if she gets out of line. Of course, she should now be fine with Barack marrying three other women (or three prepubescent girls), since Islam allows this. Someone should probably inform her that she is now officially half as intelligent as a man.

If you disagree with Wood's observations, then I would really like an explanation of how Islamic teachings, practices, traditions have been misrepresented.

Answering Muslims: First Lady Michelle Obama Dons Hijab

FacePalm of the Day #27 - Debunking Christianity: Dr. Matt McCormick on the F - Word

John Loftus posted a link to Dr. Matt McCormick's blog in which McCormick posted his powerpoint he used in a presentation he gave last Tuesday in which he explained how atheists can counter the claims of faith. I don't agree with him at all. He based his whole argument by mischaracterizing and defining faith differently than how the Bible defines it. He makes the standard straw men arguments and then attacks them. I end up blogging on this subject a lot because it really bothers me when people try to reject Christianity on the Basis of a lie. The lie here is that God expects us to believe His word and His existence despite evidence or lack of good quality evidence. No where does the Bible say that. Part of the problem is that Christians have either failed to communicate what faith is or people have ignored what the Bible says about Faith. Either people like McCormick is lying or he's ignorant about what the Bible says what faith is.
At the risk of repeating myself, Faith is not choosing to believe something despite lack of evidence. Faith is trusting God based on the evidence of who God is and your relationship with you. It's a living thing that is supposed to grow and get deeper as you live your life. It is built on living through trials and tribulation and seeing how God has brought you through them. It always amazes me when people say that God doesn't intervene in our lives when God has done so much. He protects and blesses us. Sometimes it is easy to see it and sometimes we can't because He keeps some things away from us. We aren't even aware of those because we miss those. Because Faith is not contrary to truth or evidence of course you can have truth and faith simultaneously.
I do agree with Matt McCormick that atheist faith is absurd - no evidence for it. As for God, I have to go with Paul

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Faith in other gods are not equal with faith in the God of the Bible. We have evidence for the Bible and the God who revealed himself in it. As for the other gods...we have nothing. No way are they equivalent.
Here is McCormick's presentation.

Debunking Christianity: Dr. Matt McCormick on the F - Word
The F Word