Imagine my surprise when, as an undergraduate student about to embark on Theology and Philosophy concentrations, I discovered that you are a teacher at my very own Fordham University!

I’m at Rose Hill, and I wonder if you are still teaching here, and if our scholastic/philosophical paths will ever cross.

thanks for adding your blog to A World Beyond Belief – have now added the feed and a short intro.

http://aworldbeyondbelief.blogspot.com/2009/09/camels-with-hammers.html

After 25 years I still re-read Nietzsche. As he said, the world revolves around the philosopher, except that once ideas become accepted the originating philosophers are often forgotten.

Good work!

thanks!

I’m a relatively new reader, but I find your commentary very insightful. I was wondering if you might be able to comment on the following for me(providing you have the time and impetus to do so):
“A little common sense would help here. Attacking the perverts of religion, which are the exception not the norm, or inventing imaginary reasons the imaginary religious right doesn’t support our future bankruptcy by health care, is not going to do anything constructive to cause more people to become atheists. What is woefully lacking in atheism is any real leaders who can construct a social framework that works as well as the social frameworks produced by religious people along with anyone who can intelligently communicate that framework to the culture. Any idiot can make fun of religious people or find inconsistencies in peoples lives, which doesn’t disprove religion as much as it proves peoples need for it. Idiots can destroy, it takes genius to create. When atheism produces people who are committed to constructing an atheistic paradigm to live by with the kinds of values, norms, taboos, etc. that have governed our current culture for millennia, then it will be able to compete for peoples devotion. Right now it is both profitable and safe to criticize religion. That’s because the freedom that provides both is based on a religious value system. When men are willing to lose their freedom, their money, their families, their homes, their honor, their careers, and their lives for atheism, then they will change and shape the world the way religious men have. Until then they’ll just sit comfortably on the fringes of culture involving themselves in their rhetorical masturbation sessions, tell jokes that only their cronies laugh at and make criticisms of religious people that even their own advocates acknowledge and resent. Quit borrowing from the bank of cultural theism and start producing what you pretend to so desperately want. Try living like a true atheist for a week and you’ll learn why your not an atheist as much as you are an anti-theist. In the words of that great atheistic philosopher, the Joker, “Introduce a little anarchy”. See how much you appreciate a religious culture that provides you the freedom to leach off of it’s values.”
Thanks a lot!
Lowrack