Archive for February, 2007
Moral Subjectivism
Where does morality come from? From the atheistic perspective, anywhere but God. However, my view is for some reason considered much more radical than simply rejecting morality from God. In fact, it is often rejected as obviously wrong without even the need for argument. That so many would reject a position without even trying to [...]
Filed under: atheism, ethics, morality, philosophy | 16 Comments
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
- Attributed to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology
Disclaimer: this guide has been written based on studies of existing religions. It has not been tried out in practice. [...]
Filed under: atheism, humor, religion, superstition, theism | 8 Comments
Have you ever had the feeling where you’ve got something you want to do, enjoy doing, yet you still can’t find the motivation to just sit down and do it? Well, that’s the feeling I’ve had for the past week. That’s why it’s been so quiet around here, not because of a lack of topics [...]
Filed under: abortion, christianity, ethics, morality, politics, religion, superstition, theism | 14 Comments
The saga continues. Before I even got started responding to his points in detail, Jack Mielke has given up. For reference, my previous post about this is here, where I respond to some of the points he made in a 40-page PDF (you can find it here). Jack accuses me of closing my eyes to [...]
Filed under: atheism, bullshit arguments, christianity, dangers of faith, morality, philosophy, superstition, theism | 6 Comments
Let’s Hear it for Evolution
Today is Evolution Sunday, and tomorrow is Darwin Day. What better to talk about than evolution? But first, let’s talk about gravity.
How come nobody ever asks scientists to prove gravity? After all, it’s everywhere. We have every reason to believe it has been everywhere forever, and will continue to be there into the strange aeons [...]
Filed under: bullshit arguments, christianity, darwin, evolution, intelligent design, politics, religion, science, superstition | 3 Comments
Jack Mielke has written a response – at a staggering 40 pages, no less – trying to refute my 13 Reasons Not to Believe in God. You can find his response as a PDF file here, hosted with his permission. In this post, I’m gonna respond to some of the points he makes in general, [...]
Filed under: atheism, christianity, religion, superstition, theism | 7 Comments
When I bring up the fact that religious faith is irrational, I’m usually met with the question, “do you condemn love, too, since it is clearly irrational?” The answer, of course, is no, I don’t. Without love, the world would be a truly dreary place. However, the triumphant theist hasn’t caught me in a contradiction.
What [...]
Filed under: atheism, philosophy, religion, theism | 4 Comments
Carnival of the Godless 59 is up
At Aardvarchaeology.
Coming up on this blog, later today (hopefully): Irrational Love vs. Irrational Religion – explaining why it’s OK with irrational love but not with irrational faith in religion.
Filed under: agnosticism, atheism | Closed
Apparently, Jesus loves Osama.
To all the people who find my blog throgh Google by searching for “Pink Elephant in the Room”: there’s a Wikipedia article on the “Elephant in the Room” idiom. Pink is just added for emphasis.
Weep, says Black Sun Journal.
Filed under: atheism, christianity | 2 Comments
Free Will Revisited
I’ve written about free will before, when this blog was in its earnest beginning (a month ago). Now, a number of things prompted me to revisit it. It’s an interesting topic, in the at times mind-twisting philosophical kind of way. I’ve been participating in a thread on a Norwegian forum who stubbornly refuses to consider [...]
Filed under: free will, morality, philosophy, superstition | 10 Comments
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