Sometimes atheists become enamored with some pretty psychologically shallow memes. In this post, I fisk one.
Oh You Can Get Good People To Do Bad Things Without Religion Alright…
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How Faith Is Not Like Other (Revisable) Reflexive Assumptions
(It should not be necessary for understanding this post, but for the full backstory to this debate see my series on Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals, parts 1, 2, 3, & 4 and my post “On Teleology and Intellectual Virtues and Vices”) Shane writes in reply to my post “On Teleology and Intellectual Virtues [...]
Filed Under: Atheism, Authoritarianism, Epistemology, Ethics, Faith, Historical Ethics, Metaphysics, Miracles, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, Naturalism, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Teleology Tagged With: A Priori Moral Knowledge, Aesthetic Knowledge, Assumptions, Cultural Relativism, Emotivism, Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Humean Skepticism, Mathematical Knowledge, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, Mythology, Nietzsche on Objective Values, Perceptual Knowledge, Philosophy, Prejudices, Religion, Supernaturalism 2 Comments
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