Atheism & Religion
My university is a secular private one and has for a long time not done anything explicitly religious. Then a couple of years ago, president Obama...
It is well known that Einstein spoke about god frequently, leading many believers to hope that he was religious in some way. This habit of his was a...
The Church of the Latter Day Saints has very similar views to the Catholic Church on homosexuality and along with it seems to be determined to try...
I shouldn’t be surprised at the mental gymnastics that even some professional philosophers go through when they talk about their own religion. After...
Atheists, especially of the ‘new’ variety, are used to being described as angry, shrill, arrogant, strident, rude, militant, and dogmatic (I may have...
In a post yesterday I discussed the fact that although Buddhism did not have many of the absurd philosophical baggage of other major religions, its...
When people try defend religions from the charge that they are riddled with superstitions and are a negative influence on society, they will often...
The post yesterday on god as dog owner about how best to respond to religious people who say that the reason we cannot understand why a good god...
Theodicy, the problem of how a benevolent and all-powerful god can allow suffering, is the fatal weakness of religion. There is simply no good answer...
In the third post in this series (see Part 1 and Part 2), I said that despite the risks presented by being blindsided with the Craig Con, it would be...
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