Philosophy, Ethics, Atheism, Nietzsche
The other day someone online, noting how often I reference my deconversion, told me my story was unremarkable. And I thought “Of course. That’s the whole point“. I don’t explore my deconversion because it’s terribly unique. I write about it because it’s mine. I write about it because I want to understand myself, express myself, [Read More...]
I’m not actually mad at either the historical Jesus or mythical Christ but the mind-rotting prejudice that Jesus MUST always be right. [Read more...]
I rankle at the undue reverence afforded Jesus even by many atheists and so in a post yesterday at the Richard Dawkins Foundation website lamenting the spiritual and intellectual analogue of Stockholm Syndrome that I see many liberal believers who can’t let go suffering, I explained why I want no part of the attempts to reclaim [Read More...]
When my new Hammering Out Ethics podcast premieres (any day now), it will be added to the rotation on the website Secular. FM which is going to run like a round the clock radio station that always plays podcasts for the secular community. You can already listen to it at any time so check it [Read More...]
1996-1999: When I was an evangelical Christian theology freshman at a deeply conservative Evangelical Christian college, I learned about biblical scholarship that should have undermined my biblical literalism. But I studied it with a tightly closed mind. The Bible was absolutely true, any theologian, biblical scholar, historian, or archaeologist who said otherwise was simply wrong. [Read More...]
Starting in March 2014 when I start online teaching again, I am going to run my online interactive videoconference philosophy classes more like a weekly book club or yoga class than a traditional university class, meaning you will be able to join in at any point without worrying about having missed previous material and you [Read More...]
Today I am very excited to announce my new schedule of classes and the new flexible pricing plans students can choose from. And in this post, I will explain the new format for the classes that will enable students to join classes midstream and to continue learning subjects they like at times convenient to their schedules for [Read More...]
Today I am announcing the new format for my online philosophy classes, the schedule of class offerings (with course descriptions), and, in this post, if you scroll down, you will find the new options for “passes” you can choose to buy to participate in the classes at the length you desire. For those of you unsure [Read More...]
I went on the Skeptic Canary podcast today. Tom Williamson and Guy Chapmen were gracious and thoughtful hosts. We talked a good bit about the relationships between philosophy, science, and ethics and I was really really pleased with how it was coming out as it went (I haven’t had a chance to watch it back [Read More...]
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