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Rabbi Adam Jacobs wrote “An Open Letter to the Atheist Community,” the title of which is sort of based a misunderstanding. The only thing atheists share is an absence in a belief in something. That is not grounds to be called a community. Atheism tells nothing of what a person actually believes to be [...]
William Pierce, who according to Wikipedia, was a white nationalist and founder of Cosmotheism, “a religion based on white racialism, pantheism, eugenics, and National Socialism.” Until his death in 2002, he was probably most well-known as the author of “The Turner Diaries,” which depicts a violent revolution leading to the overthrow of the [...]
I thought he was joking — at first. But no. Bill O’Reilly really does not know that the moon’s gravity causes the oceans’ tide.
Since he asked, I can think of reasons why a non-believer would still attend a religious service he or she does not hold is true. There are financial and [...]
Putting aside the question of whether god is a logically valid concept, there are a handful of reasons that no person should consider oneself a Christian even if the Biblical god plainly revealed himself to exist. The simple fact is that his moral failings would be so rampant that no person should grant him praise [...]
It is telling that more mainstream opinion writers are picking up on the influence of radical libertarian thought. One such piece is by Lisa Richards on David Horowitz’s “NewsReal Blog.” At first, I could not tell if it was a subversive way of smuggling libertarian thought to conservatives or just a massive misunderstanding of [...]
Over at SoulPancake, a crowdsourcing site for asking questions about religion and philosophy, someone posed the question of who judges morality in the absence of a divine authority.
In short, no one decides. It can only be discovered. Morality is an imperative and is empirically based in our nature as human beings.
The question [...]
To be clear, I am not here to bury religion. Faith and religion are distinct yet complementary concepts. As a matter of fact, someone could attempt to justify a religious belief strictly on objective empirical (fact-based) evidence. I also recognize that most people accept their religious belief in some part on emperical evidence. Often, people [...]
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Theism Cannot Account for Objective Morality
I have addressed before why the notion of god is a contradiction and how objective morality can be discovered through empirical evidence. A point I have not mentioned is that many theists, despite their claims otherwise, hold that objective morality is impossible. Christians, for example, will claim that their god’s nature is all-good, [...]