More Fundamentalist Myths About Sex

September 27, 2012 By 10 Comments

Sierra recounts 5 myths so wildly confused and implausible that they would be amusing if they weren’t believed by young fundamentalist Christians.

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The Problems With The Ways Evangelicals Celebrate Sex

September 24, 2012 By 6 Comments

Evangelicals are not as anti-sex as outsiders think. There is a lot of pro-sex messaging that one can find in evangelical communities. But the ways that evangelicals praise idealize sex are often as problematic as the ways they infamously demonize it.

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“It’s amazing what some people will justify through their religion, isn’t it?”

September 20, 2012 By 10 Comments

Why should it be amazing that people who adhere to their religions sincerely actually adopt the regressive or militaristic values often explicitly attributed to their god or gods in their sacred writings themselves? Isn’t that what you would expect? That they would believe in and adopt the values of their sacred texts? Let’s stop equating religion with goodness just because religions say they are the arbiters of morality and its best promoters.

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Yahweh’s Amazing Test (Abraham, Genesis 22)

September 15, 2012 By 2 Comments

NonStampCollector has a new video which brings out the absurdity and moral backwardness of the infamous test of Abraham’s faithfulness. Your Thoughts?

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If Contemporary American Conservatives Had Written The New Testament

September 3, 2012 By 5 Comments

It’d sound more like this:

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Is There Any Theological Basis For Making Opposition To Homosexuality and Abortion Tests of Christian Orthodoxy?

August 17, 2012 By 42 Comments

In this post, I am not interested in discussing what the “true” teachings of Christianity are. Partially this is because I don’t think there is any such thing as “true Christianity”. I do not think there is any reason to call “true Christianity” only those fundamentalist interpretations of the faith which claim (dubiously) to just obediently defer to [...]

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Robert M. Price’s Podcast “The Human Bible”

July 11, 2012 By 24 Comments

Robert M. Price is an amusing, charismatic, and atheistic scholar of the Bible. Since February he has been doing a radio show/podcast for the Center For Inquiry called “The Human Bible”, wherein he explains all the ins and outs of the Bible from a scholarly and skeptical perspective. Below the fold are brief episode summaries [...]

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Catholic 2012 Election Propaganda

July 4, 2012 By 10 Comments

The distortion of the meaning of freedom of religion in this video is disgusting. I’m not going to repeat myself but if you don’t know what is wrong with the claim that it is a violation of religious freedom for the Catholic Church not to be able to impose its religious standards on its employees [...]

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In Which I Answer Leah Libresco's Moral Philosophy Concerns So You Don't Become A Catholic Too

June 28, 2012 By 121 Comments

Leah Libresco was an irreligious person with little interest in religious issues until as a Yale undergraduate she began dating a Catholic, reading Catholic theology and apologetics, and going to church with him. She wrote a blog about her process of weighing Catholicism against atheism. Recently, she converted to Catholicism. I have previously analyzed some of [...]

Filed Under: Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Ethics, Morality, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophical Ethics, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Teleology, Virtues Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 121 Comments

How Foolish Atheists Convinced The Atheist Blogger Leah Libresco That Catholic Philosophy Was Rationally Superior To Atheism

June 25, 2012 By 192 Comments

On Friday I am finally going to put up an extensive post dissecting the philosophical arguments that atheist blogger Leah Libresco has either made or referred to in defending and explaining her decision to convert to Catholicism. But first this post will make some more important preliminary points about the inadequacy of the reasons for [...]

Filed Under: Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Christianity, Ethics, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Morality, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, New Atheism, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church Tagged With: , , , , 192 Comments