The past four years have been a time of division and anger and finger pointing.  It is now time to set aside our differences, and to come together in love and harmony and to once again become the UNITED States of America! Excuse me, I just threw up a bit in my mouth. Now that … OFF TOPIC: Farewell Donald Trump (UPDATED 9pm)

HELP THE FBI HUNT DOWN THE BASKET OF DEPLORABLESThe FBI is hunting down several of Donald Trump’s basket of deplorables who were involved in the INSURRECTION against our democracy.  You can help them by reviewing photos published by the FBI to see if you recognize anyone in the photos, and contacting the FBI with information … THE FBI REQUESTS YOUR HELP

This will be a fairly short post about the logic of the core argument in Tim Hsiao’s article “A Defense of the Perverted Faculty Argument against Homosexual Sex” (hereafter: PFA).   I take it that the core argument of that article can be summarized in this categorical syllogism: 4. All sexual activity that is not open … Aquinas and Homosexual Sex – Part 4: The Logic of Applied Ethics

In this post I will begin work on an evaluation of the Christian answer to worldview question #2, in preparation for creating the next podcast in my series of podcasts called Thinking Critically About: Is Christianity True? THE FOUR BASIC WORLDVIEW QUESTIONS There are four basic worldview questions, four questions that can be used to … Evaluation of the Christian Answer to Worldview Question #2 – Part 1: SIN

WHERE WE ARE In the previous post, Part 8 of this series, I supported my fourth reason for doubting the view that we should condemn homosexual sex as morally wrong because it is (allegedly) condemned in the book of Leviticus: 4. Leviticus is NOT an historically reliable account of actual events. God, if God exists, … Leviticus and Homosexuality – Part 9: More Historical Errors

I was raised a Presbyterian, and I think that debating predestination with my Sunday School teachers was one of the main things that pushed me towards an interest–and finally a career–in philosophy. However, there are still many things about the doctrine that I do not understand. I am presently teaching a graduate-level survey of the … Calvinists Needed!

FESER’S ARISTOTELIAN PROOF & AQUINAS’S UNMOVED-MOVER PROOF I plan to analyze and evaluate Ed Feser’s Aristotelian “proof” of the existence of God, from his book Five Proofs of the Existence of God.  According to Feser, the proofs that he presents in that book are “the most powerful arguments for God’s existence on offer”. But before … The Unmoved Mover Argument – Part 1: Kreeft’s Version

In this INDEX post you will find links to each of the 14 posts in my series of posts on this question: Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified? I have also provided some quotes from the posts to give an idea of what each post is about. In this series of posts I … INDEX: Was Joshua’s Slaughter of the Canaanites Morally Justified?

NOTE: This is a portion of a paper I read at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association last February. It is a revision of an earlier SO post “Contempt: A Qualified Defense.” In January 2017, I was pleasantly surprised to see an op/ed by a professional philosopher in The Houston Chronicle. Karen Stohr’s timely … Contempt: It’s Not All Bad