Philosophy, Ethics, Atheism, Nietzsche
By now you’ve probably seen this CNN footage in which Rebecca Vitsmun blitzed Wolf with some hardcore aggressive in-your-face atheism: Well, as you probably guessed, lightning quick god-hating and anti-theist reflexes like that don’t just come with being your average garden variety atheist. Rebecca is one of us, a member of an atheist group in [...]
I am grateful the pope has acknowledged atheists do good and seeks common ground with us based in our common goodness. I share his desire for a “culture of encounter”. Here is hoping it is a sign of theological improvements to come. In this post, I accept his offer of dialogue and do some philosophical analysis of the ways Catholics mix up God and goodness to make it so atheists who pursue the good can be seen as pursuing God (covertly).
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We lost one of the greatest creative geniuses in American history 23 years ago today. Here was the great Frank Oz’s moving and fittingly quirky memorialization of his friend and collaborator. Last year I wrote a post on how much Kermit means to me and why. Here’s part 1 of a wonderful documentary that covers [...]
A peek inside my dissertation! I love this stuff about irony that I worked out in this section. Irony is such a generally ill-explicated subject. I wanted to blog about it today but decided I had already done it well enough in my dissertation and didn’t want to put in a ton of work to replicate what I had already come up with. Tell me what you think!
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