Christians typically regard Jesus Christ as the Jewish Messiah, the savior of mankind, and the incarnation of God on earth. Non-Christians don’t agree with this, but they do normally agree that he was a real historical figure. But was he even that?
Religion has a history of enforcing conformity of thought. During the Inquisition, people were arrested, tortured, and killed for the so-called crime of heresy. In many Muslim countries today, people are being killed for being Christians or atheists. In its most basic form, freethought is a rejection of this tyranny of the mind. As Chapman Cohen puts it …
Morality has been hijacked. But how and by whom has it been hijacked? To understand this, we first need to understand what morality is about.
This post is for a video I made in 2011. I actually got answers from someone today, and I realized it would help to have a list of the questions asked in the video for my own reference, if nothing else. It may also prove useful to someone answering the questions.
A robust multiculturalism has to ground itself in universal values, not in cultural relativism.
Last updated: Monday, January 16, 2017I’ve put this one off much too long. If I don’t write it now, I won’t get it in for March. At least, writing it on the last day of March, I can comment on some titles more. First, here are the titles I bought this month: Health K2 is … [Read more…]
I have combed through more than 1,100 monthly Kindle deals for January, 2016 to come up with a small set of books that seem worth checking out. Check out the list before the month ends.
We are robots, literally. Life emerged when non-living self-replicators built autonomous machines to house, sustain, and reproduce them. We are robots, built by DNA, programmed by genes and memes.
Paley’s teleological argument for the existence of God argues that the universe is designed, but it has a hard time explaining flaws in the design, such as death, suffering, disease, and conflict.
The argument from existence claims that we must presuppose God to account for existence. But can the existence of God really explain existence?