Religion is born of the same curiosity that led to philosophy and science, but it’s a premature birth due to an impatience for answers. Before people started figuring things out with philosophy and science, people made up a variety of answers, and these became various religions. The articles in this section are on the topic of religion, on various topics within religion, or on particular religions.
The Transcendental argument maintains that eternal conceptual truths require the existence of an eternal mind, which is understood to be God. I maintain that eternal truths, such as the laws of logic, are part of the fabric of reality, not conceptual truths in the sense Matt Slick intends. Read the article to learn in more detail why the Transcendental argument fails to prove God’s existence.
The Atheist Nightmare asks, “If you want to claim that your brain was not intelligently designed, then shouldn’t your entire belief system come into question? It would seem to me that you would have no reason to trust your own thoughts.” So this is not just about creationism vs evolution. Here is my response.
Dusty Smith, of the Cult of Dusty YouTube channel, has claimed that black Christians are Uncle Toms. The argument goes that the Bible was used to justify the slave trade, and by endorsing the Bible, black Christians are endorsing as the word of God the scriptures used to justify the enslavement of their ancestors. It is true that the Bible was used to justify slavery. However, justification is not the same thing as explicitly calling for something.
Do you need to be omniscient to know that God doesn’t exist? Not if God is supposed to be omniscient. If God is omniscient, as many philosophers, theologians, and apologists have claimed, all you need to know is that omniscience is impossible.
It is claimed that only the existence of God can provide a proper basis for trusting our thoughts and senses. Let’s examine this idea.
Four different arguments for the existence of God claim that God is required to account for objective moral right and wrong, evil, value, and the meaning of life. This post critically examines all four claims.
A Christian Youtuber has made eight arguments for the existence of God. He thinks that if even one works, that will be sufficient to prove God. But none work, as I explain here. Note that I have written subsequent posts in which I have considered some of these arguments in greater depth.
Here are two long videos on the seven deadly sins: wrath, pride, envy, avarice, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Whether or not these are sins against God, they are moral vices that can ruin lives. The first video introduces them, and the second analyzes them as vices of excess or deficiency.
Like television shows in the same genre, religions tend to follow the same formula. This provides a tool for comparing and contrasting different religions.
Creationists are always quick to try to debunk biological evolution, but I have never heard of creationists trying to debunk linguistic evolution. Yet the Bible clearly states that different languages came about by intelligent design, not by evolution. In the story of the Tower of Babel, God changes the languages that the workers are speaking, so that they can no longer communicate with each other.