society & culture

God, Last Night’s Republication Debate, and Moral Disagreement

During last night’s prime-time Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, Fox News host Megyn Kelly said this: after the break, we’re going to let the candidates make their closing statements, their final thoughts, and God. Stay tuned for that. After the commercial break, Kelly said: “An interesting closing question from Chase Norton on Facebook, who wants to God, Last Night’s Republication Debate, and Moral Disagreement

Not this Again!

John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University, has posted an essay reasserting the old canard that atheism is the cause of mass murder. Reynolds commits all the usual fallacies of those who make this claim. For instance, though he notes that correlation is not the same thing as cause, here is what he says Not this Again!

Faith and the End of PoR

John Loftus has advocated the End of Philosophy of Religion as a discipline.  In his post defending this proposal, Loftus repeatedly talks about “faith”. The word “faith” occurs 23 times in the post, and it occurs in 7 out of the 13 paragraphs that constitute the post.  Some paragraphs have multiple references to “faith”: It Faith and the End of PoR

Why be Skeptical? Reason #1 (Lying Cheating College Students – Part 2)

If most people lie and if most people lie frequently, then that is a good reason to be skeptical. In previous posts I have provided evidence that very young children lie and that most children  lie, that most teenagers lie and cheat and lie and cheat frequently, and that most college students lie and lie frequently. Why be Skeptical? Reason #1 (Lying Cheating College Students – Part 2)

If You Think Atheists Should Ridicule Theistic Beliefs, Read This

This is a paper I started writing almost ten years ago, but never finished. Atheistic Advocacy as a Risk Communication Problem Jeffery Jay Lowder Abstract. In this paper, I introduce a new way of thinking about atheistic advocacy. In an important sense, atheism is a risk. Therefore, attempts to argue either for the truth of If You Think Atheists Should Ridicule Theistic Beliefs, Read This