Destroyed With Facts and Logic
The popular atheist case against religion was already shallow, and the same habits carried straight over to feminism.
ReligionA collection of 15 posts
Cowardly Agnosticism
The charge that agnostics are fence-sitters is older than the internet. What’s new is that half of it now comes from people whose own position is the same withholding.
Pick One: God and the Problem of Time
The traditional God is unchanging and also responds to us. Put him inside time or outside it, and one of those has to go.
Who I Am: Why I’m an Agnostic
If you’ve been here before, you might be surprised that agnosticism only ranks third in how I…
Why “Can God Create a Stone So Heavy He Can’t Lift It?” Is a Bad Argument
The problem with the argument is that theists can easily get out of it. They can simply claim that omnipotence does not mean a being can do EVERYTHING. Omnipotence means that a being can do anything logically possible.
A Warning About the Problem of Evil: Handle With Care
Few arguments in the atheist’s toolkit are as famous — or as frequently misused — as Epicurus’…
Democracy on the Brink: Why Politics, Not Religion, Is Now the Biggest Threat to Our World
When I wrote about this topic years ago, I argued that religion was a virus of the mind, but that politics was the bigger problem — that divisions driven by tribal political loyalty were doing more damage to the world than any church. I still believe the first half. I was wildly, embarrassingly optimistic about the second.