The Supreme Court has handed down a couple of very important decisions recently regarding crime and punishment: High court strikes down sweeping gun ban. This one’s easy for me to comment on: _Liberal delusion of gun control._ The other ruling is just as heated of an issue (I suppose if it weren’t it wouldn’t have [...]
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The meaning of life.
I recently listened to a recording of a debate between theologian William Lane Craig and scholar Keith Parsons* titled “Why I Am / Am Not a Christian.” It was held in 1998 and can be downloaded here: ♦ Craig/Parsons Debate on Why I Am / Am Not a Christian Much of it involves the supposed [...]
READ MORE »Chemically altered trust, and divine responsibility.
A really interesting, a little scary, story on io9 today: ♦ The “Trust Me” Drug That Makes You Take Social Risks Basically, there’s a drug available which can alter the way the brain perceives people and can chemically make you more trusting and willing to behave on that trust. Lee Randolph on Debunking Christianity discusses [...]
READ MORE »Moral naturalism.
Last month I commented on a conversation over at NewSojourn, “Where Does ‘Ought’ Come From?“, where he commits the fallacy of the false dilemma by saying that you either believe morality, ethics, “proper” civil behavior is dictated by a (the Christian) god, or else there is no such thing and any claim to believe in [...]
READ MORE »Life in the future! An ode to reason.
Welcome to the 21st century! ♦ Girl, 6, thrown on fire for being ‘lowest class’ If anyone denies that the earth is composed of literally two different worlds, they’re living a completely sheltered life in theirs. Here in the year 2008, we have machines that can literally detect thought before you have the thought, we [...]
READ MORE »Big Bad Things CAN happen; we have the ability to change things.
I learned in a theory class last year that people have a tendency to think that the way things are are the way things have always been and always will be. Before the Enlightenment, people had a good reason to believe this. For centuries of feudalism everyone followed the feudal ideology living lives defined by [...]
READ MORE »I am an atheist.
My being an atheist may not be surprising to some, but stating it is unusual. I’ve stated many times on here, and in person, that I’m a “non-theist.” Which is really just a weaselly way of saying “atheist.” (Although, it began as a all-inclusive way of saying “Deist,” then “agnostic”….) I still don’t plan on [...]
READ MORE »Philosophical validation to old arguments.
Quite some time ago a former friend and I engaged in some rousing debates about God, absolutism, relativism, morality, etc. He was an educated Christian apologist, well read and versed in apologetics and Christian philosophy, and I at the time was educated in pretty much nothing. Well, except I had been a semi-well read Christian [...]
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