‘Nuff Said Award Winner:Vorjack

August 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In this thread at Unreasonable Faith, a poster starts a discussion by talking about how he left his life in porn to become a Christian.  When confronted with the idea that everything he says he learned about God in the Bible came from human beings, the convert from the porn world in reply claimed that [...]

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Atheism, Certainty, Mysticism, And Faitheism

July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In reply to Daniel Dennett’s attack on the supposed need for belief in belief, a Daily Dish reader writes: Something I find annoying about this atheist-believer dispute is that it all depends on what you mean by “god”. If you require the talking snake, then, yeah, Dennet rules, in my opinion. But if you are [...]

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Rough Sketches of Nietzsche’s Politics and Philosophy of Religion

May 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment

What follows are a couple of replies to questions sent to me by a student this semester about Nietzsche’s views on politics and religion. While not definitive or thoroughly sourced discussions of Nietzsche’s thoughts on politics and religion, I think the sketches of Nietzsche’s positions as I formulated them in these replies have some promise. [...]

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