Podcast Seventeen: An Interview with John Loftus, Part I of III

by Jonathan McKeen on January 25, 2011

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This week’s podcast features the first segment of a three part interview with John W. Loftus who maintains an active blog and is the author of “Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity.” He is also the editor of “The Christian Delusion” and the upcoming book: “The End of Christianity.”

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  • Clay James

    I would love to see conversion rates to atheism between creationist/conservative Christians (like John Loftus) and more liberal Christians.

    • Bojan Crevar

      I’d also like to know that statistics. Many things that Loftus mentions as something that pushed him away from Christianity (like evolution), are things that other Christians readily accept. So what’s going on there?

      I figure that bad theology maybe gives one a bigger sense of disillusionment on deeper investigation. So more competent theologies like Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy should have much less deconversions. I wonder if that is something that could be empirically tested?

  • Jonh

    Ha ha This Show sounds like some kids trying to cheaply mimic an NPR style interview, while interviewing Beavis of Beavis and Butt head fame, complete with Beavis Stoner Laughs.

  • Anonymous

    Clay, I thought about your question and wrote something in response:

    http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-former-conservatives-become.html

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