The most unknowing responses to the cosmological argument for the existence of God (flying spaghetti monsters, Zeus, and Thor; “who created God?”) are probably just as likely to stem from theistic misinterpretations of what God is than from actual ignorance of the argument being made – irritating as they may be. Feser knocks it out…
DetailsYour lecture of the week this week is more a discussion than anything else, between the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the wannabe professional atheist Richard Dawkins. Many great points here made by Mr. Williams, and Dawkins restrains himself from the usual hysterics. Very worth the time…
From our “alternative perspectives” tag… Antinatalism: since children can’t consent to being born, it’s unethical to impose life (give birth) in a world in which the potential for great suffering exists. Having children means gambling with the welfare of someone else. It means conducting Frankenstein experiments you can’t control in which someone else pays the…
DetailsSince discovering Edward Feser, I have been reading and posting from his blog regularly. He is just the type of class-A thinker that I really enjoy, and his commentary seems to have such truthful gravity that I hardly can resist. Instead of posting a flood of his columns, I think it would be better to…
DetailsLet me explain. Many believe that Westboro Baptist Church is a conspiratorial movement meant to parody Christianity in the hope of converting people away from it. By constantly making absurdity of the faith, WBC leaves a bad taste in all of our mouths about the judgy, dumbed-down Christianity that may be closer to the mainstream…
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Here on the interwebs, you run into idiocy of all stripes. Some people are too dumb to make a response worth giving, while others aren’t clearly stupid as much as they appear to be trolling for attention or to get a guy expending effort he needn’t (they won’t change their opinion anyway). Some vapidity is…
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