This seems to assume Christianity has had no positive influence on Western societies, and also that there could somehow be a society that isn’t guided...
I haven’t read the book, but having read the Sermon on the Mount the notion that the Christian religion is a poison will always to me seem patently ri...
If that’s your line then what you have there is a conspiracy theory, where everything that opposes the view that the religion in question is malign is...
Schools, hospitals, homes for the aged and infirm, foundling homes, orphanages, shelters for the poor, alms houses, medical missions, charitable aid s...
People buy into conspiracy theories by accepting the evidence and rational offered in favour of them, and subsequently taking all opposition to them t...
Yeah, nothing I feel compelled to argue with there. In debates between atheists and theists each side almost always condescends the other, I just assu...
Yeah, seems to me he’s simply saying there are people who, thinking their actions only affect themselves, behave badly. Then, when asked to consider w...
My intention was to get across that there’s nothing “hasty” about being a theist, which is what I thought your opinion to be. I gave more detail to th...
Thanks, that’s very patronising of you. I was thinking in particular of Stephen Hawking’s claim that philosophy is dead, and Peter Atkin’s declamation...
The way I see it, you can believe that the universe just exists, that part of it is necessary and there’s no explanation why. Or... You can believe th...
I take the view that truly moral acts are beautiful, and it’s that beauty we seek in being moral, just as an artist seeks it in a painting, sculpture,...
I imagine there are a lot of criticisms made about any philosophical argument; but if it’s reasonable to believe the premises of an argument, then it’...
How about William Lane Craig’s favourite, the Kalam Cosmological Argument? 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3....
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