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Dawkins Against Religion’s Claim To Superiority Because It Offers Absolute Morality
February 24, 2011 – 10:55 amThis is one of the most concise, eloquent, and accurate statements on the problem with religious absolutism in morality and the superiority of secular, non-absolutist approaches to morality I have ever heard. And it is certainly Dawkins’s best 2 and a half minutes on the topic of morality I have ever heard: Thanks to Lucy. [...]
TOP Q: “How Is It Fair To Question Other People’s Identity-Forming Beliefs While Demanding Respect For One’s Own Belief-Formed Identities?”
February 23, 2011 – 8:00 pmI always tell my students as they start studying philosophy that it is crucial that they not associate their ideas too closely with themselves. They need to get used to not taking criticism of their ideas personally. I warn them that if they cannot disassociate from their ideas when they fail, they will never be [...]
The Religious Conservative’s False Choice: “Big Brother” Or “Heavenly Father”
February 23, 2011 – 10:00 amIn an e-mail to me, Caroline proposes thought provoking reasons for non-believers to encourage (or at least to not actively discourage) religious beliefs: It would also be nice if people would carry out actions in good conscience of just being decent human beings rather than in fear of reprisal in the afterlife, but as there [...]
Christopher Hitchens Rebuts The Atheist Atrocities Charge
February 23, 2011 – 1:08 amConvincing? Your Thoughts?
Worshipful Experience Of God? Been There, Done That.
February 21, 2011 – 5:21 pmOne Luke Muelhauser’s readers challenged him that all his pursuit of evidence just would not matter if only he would experience “believing in Jesus and God” for himself. In reply, Luke opens up about his emotionally intense experience of Christianity: Things went so well over the next year that I started to feel like quite [...]
“Hell’s Angel” (Christopher Hitchens’s Documentary On Mother Theresa)
February 20, 2011 – 11:14 pmI went looking for this documentary on the site just now thinking for sure I must have it here, but alas I was aghast not to find it. I may never have posted it. This must be rectified post haste. An oldie but a goodie from Hitch: Your Thoughts?
“If You Believe In God, You Have To Believe In The Devil”
February 20, 2011 – 2:42 pmLast summer there was a cheesy ad for the latest Exorcist film, and the tagline epitomized and exploited a key twist of twisted religious logic. The film’s tagline was “If you believe in God, you have to believe in the devil.” What’s the idea behind this?
Sam Brinton On Coming Out At 10 And Going Into Aversion Therapy
February 20, 2011 – 12:04 amCan you say “religiously motivated child abuse”? via Feminist Philosophers. Your Thoughts?
Evangelical Atheism?
February 19, 2011 – 8:45 pmSo we activist atheist types who like to be outspoken about our atheism and network with other atheists are often derisively called “evangelical” or “proselytizers”. In all cases, the irony is clear and in some cases there are allegations of hypocrisy attached to the claim that we aim to “convert” people. Is it right to [...]
Apostasy As A Religious Act (Or “Why A Camel Hammers The Idols Of Faith”)
February 17, 2011 – 11:00 amIn “The Three Transformations of the Spirit” in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra describes the human spirit as successively taking three different forms: the camel, the lion, and the child. The transformations begin with the spirit of the camel, which Nietzsche characterizes as consisting of obedient, self-sacrificing, reverential, [...]
Faith Is Not A Virtue; Faith Is Gullibility
February 16, 2011 – 11:16 amThere are many virtues the religious have, even in distinctively religious forms which an atheist like I can appreciate specifically as religious virtues, but faith is not one of these virtues. It is a vice. And Matt Dillahunty’s video below features, especially in the last few minutes, an eloquent, passionate, personal explanation of what makes [...]
What Can An Atheist Love In People’s Religiosity?
February 15, 2011 – 11:22 pmEarlier today, I argued that atheists can vigorously and outspokenly oppose bad faith-based ideas, values, and behaviors, but still love other aspects of the religiosity of their religious friends (and of religious people in general). I argued that religion can be as central to personal identity formation as sexuality is and that to indiscriminately hate [...]
Loving Doubt’s Journey To Atheism Part 1: “Mishearing God”
February 13, 2011 – 8:53 pmAs Marty Pribble correctly notes, another major atheist YouTube video maker whom I unfortunately omitted (because I did not yet know her) when I made my list of Top 10 Favorite Atheist/Rationalist YouTube Channels a while back was Loving Doubt, who chronicled all the steps of her deconversion from being a Pentecostal Christian in her [...]
Questions Intelligent Christians Must Answer
February 13, 2011 – 8:38 pmEarlier tonight on the internets I went around promoting a list I made a while ago of my then 10 favorite atheist YouTube video makers. One glaring omission from that list was the great ProfMTH, so I felt obliged to call attention to one of his videos tonight: Your Thoughts?
Sundaily Hilarity: Bible Stories For Children
February 13, 2011 – 9:59 amGood ol’ 2 Kings 2:23-25 and Genesis 19:4-38 made accessible to the kids: Your Thoughts?
Darwin’s Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism
February 12, 2011 – 3:31 amDarkMatter2525 sums up creationism: Your Thoughts?
Defending Apostates’ Intellects Against A Dismissive Christian Apologist
February 9, 2011 – 7:00 pmThis morning, I posted a few of Evangelical Christian Drew Dyck’s condescending and disingenuous attempts to understand the growing trend of sustained apostasy among young Christians. In the last post I criticized his ideas and value prejudices which guided his discussion of the role that sexual development in young adulthood plays in leading people away [...]
‘Nuff Said Award Winner: Jeff Dale
February 9, 2011 – 4:14 pmJeff Dale’s ‘Nuff Said Award is for his reply to the following passage from Drew Dyck in which Dyck accuses young defectors from Christianity of being motivated to leave their faith because of their “sinful” sexual behavior: So 20- and 30-somethings are leaving—but why? When I ask church people, I receive some variation of this [...]
Muslim Mob Burns Churches, Demands Death Penalty Over Christian Man’s Leaflets “Insulting” Islam
February 9, 2011 – 1:17 pmThe usual outrageous outrage: A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said. Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two [...]
Sex And Apostasy
February 9, 2011 – 12:15 pmDrew Dyck has written a book called Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Faith. . .and How to Bring Them Back. I want to focus on just a few passages from his interesting five page article from last fall in last November’s Christianity Today. Unlike many Christians who, despite living in a culture [...]
Another Middle Eastern Dictator’s Regime Is Threatened
February 9, 2011 – 8:14 amYahweh is the latest under siege by a young, freedom movement: Speculation has been growing about whether God’s dictatorship will be the next to crumble under the demand for freedom that is sweeping the earth. Yahweh has now ruled without free elections for over 2,000 years. He seized power after the assassination of his son, [...]
Pat Tillman In Hell? (Or “How NOT To Proselytize”)
February 9, 2011 – 6:39 amJohn writes in to trivialize the tragic death of Pat Tillman because he was *gasp*—an atheist: I wanted to leave a comment about Pat Tillmans death in afganistan, while it is tragic, the greater tragedy is that if he was an athiest, He died not knowing ( or not believing )that Jesus died on the [...]
Wow! I Belonged To The TRUE Christian Church!!
February 8, 2011 – 10:50 pmFrom ages 5-21, my entire time as part of the Protestant Christian Church, I was more specifically a member of the “non-denominational” Church of Christ which arose out of the “Restoration Movement” of America’s 2nd Great Awakening. John W. Loftus, a former minister and fellow former member of the Church of Christ turned atheist, has a [...]
Daily Hilarity: Calvinist Pick Up Lines
February 7, 2011 – 1:43 pmThis really cracked me up and took me back to my days with the Calvinists at Grove City College: For the uninitiated, bone up on your Calvinism (specifically the “TULIP”) here. I mean, it won’t help you get the video unless God wants you to. But if he does, you’ll find it irresistible. Your Thoughts?
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