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Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat

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The Flawed Logic In Ross Douthat's Arguments for Christianity

November 2, 2026 · 15 min

We are on page 140 out of just a little bit over 200 pages in Ross Douthat’s book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. It's a small book. Ross Douthat couldn't really summon much in the way of ideas for this book, which is…
Truth Isn't Proven In An Ideological Deathmatch, Ross Douthat

October 30, 2026 · 17 min

We're getting to the part of the book now where Ross Douthat is repeating himself. It kind of looks like, the way that this book reads, Douthat really struggled to find a lot of things to say, to fill up a book. In this new chapter…
The Work Demons Do For Ross Douthat

October 30, 2026 · 12 min

Demons are no more real than the Christian god is. Nonetheless, Ross Douthat has summoned demons to do his dirty work. Welcome back to Not Everyone Believes, Ross Douthat. I said at the beginning of this podcast, in the first episode, that…
Why Not Believe God Is Bad And Demons Are Good, Ross Douthat?

October 28, 2026 · 23 min

Ross Douthat writes about why you ought to belong to not just a religion, but to a church. Religious belief in itself really isn't the goal for Ross Douthat. Belief is part of what he'd like you to do, but really what's much more important…
Why Should I Let A Church Tell Me How To Live, Ross Douthat?

October 27, 2026 · 15 min

On page 117 of his book Believe, Ross Douthat suddenly announces that people should submit themselves to the moral commands of Christian churches. Why? Ross Douthat has provided no rational reason to think that religions have any moral…

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Why Join A Christian Church If You’re Not Hot For It, Ross Douthat?

October 27, 2026 · 22 min

We are at page 115 of Ross Douthat’s book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, but we are also referencing back to page 112, because it's really confusing to me to try to figure out exactly what the author Ross Douthat is getting at…
Christianity Is A Map Into Fantasyland, Ross Douthat

October 24, 2026 · 22 min

Ross Douthat’s book Believe claims that it can offer a rational argument for belief in religion, but here on page 114, Ross Douthat is now arguing exactly the opposite. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by that, because in the second…
Violent Demands To Close Our Minds Are Not Rational, Ross Douthat

October 23, 2026 · 27 min

The further you read in Ross Douthat’s book Believe, the worse it gets. In chapter 4, Douthat is now making unsubstantiated claims that people should be tortured if they don’t close their minds and fully commit to believing the right…
A Summary Of Ross Douthat's Failed Arguments For Religion

October 22, 2026 · 37 min

As this podcast’s line by line, page by page examination of Douthat’s book shows, none of his arguments in favor of religion make any rational sense. So, an intelligent reader of his book must come to a conclusion that’s the opposite of…
Ross Douthat Won't Face Facts Of Faith Healing And Near Death Experiences

October 21, 2026 · 20 min

We're going to wrap up discussion of chapter 3 of Ross Douthat’s book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. There's a whole lot of stuff and nonsense in here, including some stuff that's just sort of odd, very vague, difficult to…
Sloppy Writing Isn’t Rational, Ross Douthat

October 20, 2026 · 19 min

Chapter 3 of Ross Douthat’s book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious is full of factual errors and dishonest partial quotes of the sort that break trust with intelligent readers. Ross Douthat couldn’t even get the year of one of his…
Questioning Religious Authority Isn't Embarrassing, Ross Douthat

October 19, 2026 · 27 min

Ross Douthat says that people, when they have religious or supernatural experiences, they are… “…embarrassed to talk about their experiences at all, since they assumed that doctors and psychologists would sneer at them. That embarrassment…

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Ross Douthat wrote a book called Believe - Why Everyone Should Be Religious. This podcast reviews that book, page by page, to seek whether the arguments Ross Douthat makes for Christianity hold up to skeptical scrutiny. Can a Christian apologist withstand the critical review of a reader who doesn’t begin with the author’s Christian bias?