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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 [...]
There has not been a successful terrorist attack in the United States for nearly 10 years. I am sure it is not for a lack of trying. In the meantime, the federal government has usurped more control, expanded the occupation and violence in foreign countries and heightened hatred for those of living in the United [...]
It is easy to dislike politicians and what they do. It is not so easy to publicly oppose their henchmen: the police and the troops.
The police are only enforcing the law. If you want it changed, lobby the legislature, said the serf to the slave. After all, it is not the military’s fault they [...]
Talk of liberty always spikes when Republicans are out of office. Then, it should have come as no surprise that I heard a presentation on the meaning of liberty by Marlene McMillan, “America’s expert on the principles of liberty,” at a Republican convention in Fort Worth last month. (If anyone is interested in my reasons [...]
~ An Anti-Stack Manifesto
George Donnelly makes two contributions today. The first is his rebutal to the grieved Joseph Stack, who published a suicide note online before flying a single-engine plane into an Austin building housing the offices of the Internal Revenue Service on Feb. 18. Stack had claimed he was left no [...]
~ Consent of the Governed in Question
Two opinion polls are particularly enlightening. According to a CBS-New York Times poll, 81 percent of those polled did not want members of congress reelected. Just 15 percent approve of the job congress is doing. Yet unlike the market, government job performance is not indicative [...]
Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online said that “very serious, committed, consistent libertarians are very rare in America (and really, really rare everywhere else). They don’t come close to constituting a major voting block. I respect folks who seriously believe in liberty-maximization in all spheres of life, but that is not a power-brokering constituency [...]
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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, [...]