Category: Philosophy
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A Rationalist Approaches Christianity
I am privately linking from here (below) a new essay about Christian religious epistemology, 20,700 words (if you can believe that). Here is the first paragraph: The purpose of this discussion is to […]
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Not all ways of changing the world are good
Not all ways of changing the world are good. Some edges you don’t go over, ever. Some edgelords are the enemy. Some rebellion is shockingly evil. Sometimes, wearing the clothes of the devil […]
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Why God Might Exist: A Dialogue Concerning Unnatural Religion
Modern religious skeptics often declare that the reason they are atheists is that there is no good evidence for the existence of God. It is as if they were mere dispassionate judges, and […]
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On Attitudes Toward Evil
As I have been thinking in recent months both about different religions—but especially Christianity—and about evil in general, it strikes me suddenly that how different worldviews regard evil is deeply important. This is […]
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Why I Have Not Been a Christian, and Why That Might Change
A Personal History of My Nonbelief I think I lost the faith I was raised in (Lutheran) when I was 16, a few years after the family stopped going regularly to church. That […]
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On the “God of the Gaps”
If God exists, he knows all the physical explanations of all the phenomena. From his point of view, there is no “God of the gaps.” Hence our inability to explain something about the […]
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On the Burning of an LGBTQ Flag
Last summer, Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa, stole the LGBTQ pride flag hung above the entrance to the Ames United Church of Christ, and burned it in front of the nearby Dangerous […]
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Why Pedophilia Is Evil
However it is defined, pedophilia is wrong; but beyond that, it is evil. In a deeply disturbing trend in the last few decades, pedophilia apologists have tried to soft-pedal the condemnation of this […]
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A Celebration of Winsor McCay
My favorite illustrator ever, Winsor McCay (1869-1934), worked for decades as a newspaper political cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. I learned about McCay while browsing through books in the 1990s, I think it was, […]
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Against Anti-Natalism
The arguments for anti-natalism are terrible. The claim that can be justified in giving birth only if new people consent to the risks involved in new life is incoherent. David Benatar and many anti-natalists are constantly found assuming not living is preferable to living, but it strikes me as not just (a) unsupported by the…
