So an atheist sits next to me on a train going from Missouri to Kansas
And naturally we get into an argument. As we’re going along I look out the window and see some white rocks lying on the hillside in a pattern that looks like it says, WELCOME TO KANSAS “I wonder who...
View ArticleSteps to “Enlightenment” unbelief
STEP ONE: pagans worship nature as a chaotic force without rules. They personify the forces they can distinguish and try to bribe them or manipulate them through offerings and rituals. STEP TWO: The...
View ArticleThe argument against God on the basis of the existence of evil
An Agnostic Argument based on Epicurus – Faith & Life. The problem is that the premises can always be changed around. To wit: If a perfectly good god exists, then there is no evil in the world...
View ArticleWittgenstein on creationists
Very intelligent and well-educated people believe in the story of creation in the Bible, while others hold it as proven false, and the grounds of the latter are well known to the former. (On Certainty,...
View ArticleChristianity really can’t be explained except by being true
YouTube – Super True Stories: Best. Conspiracy. Ever. (Ep. 2).
View ArticleDarwinism is atheism but the reverse isn’t true
Physicalism per se can’t vindicate adaptationism [Darwinism] … Arguably, what determines which trait was selected-for is which laws governed the selection: given the laws, the counterfactuals follow;...
View ArticleThe way slogans seduce us: Angel, Absurdism, and Faith (not the girl)
YouTube – Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist. I love Joss but I have extreme skepticism about what he claims he has suffered for his atheism. I also hate the hearing the word “faith” used for an...
View ArticleEfficiency and apologetics
Enough is enough. Attacking the New Atheists is like shooting a man giving himself a lethal injection. ( Faith and Theology: Another pile of doodlings )
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On the anti-Ayn-Rand schtick
I heard once of a Christian kid who became an atheist of the Ayn-Rand kind. This blew my mind. I couldn’t believe that anyone with real Christian knowledge would be swayed by her assertions (on...
View ArticleGore Vidal’s ascription of “homosexual” to the “primitive religion” of...
Just caught some re-broadcast of a 1988 interview of Gore Vidal, a man whose work I don’t know too well, but whom I am inclined to admire. He certainly made his path to hell but he stood out in the...
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