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September 2006

September 12, 2006
Despite the advantages of universal utilitarianism, most people in the world today shun secular moral...
September 10, 2006
Although I have written previously of Daylight Atheism's rapid growth (and let me add that...
September 07, 2006
In Part 2 of this series, we reached the conclusion that happiness is the ultimate...
September 05, 2006
In the previous post in this series, I argued that moral relativism is a logically...
September 04, 2006
P.Z. Myers of Pharyngula draws my attention to a Newsweek article by Jerry Adler, "The...
September 02, 2006
A few weeks ago, I read Jon Krakauer's book Under the Banner of Heaven, a...

August 2006

August 31, 2006
Back in March of this year, soon after the founding of Daylight Atheism, I wrote...
August 29, 2006
The recent violence in Lebanon, as well as the worsening sectarian bloodshed in Iraq, that...
August 25, 2006
I was in New York City the other week, near Penn Station, when I was...
August 22, 2006
The previous essays in this series have explored various ways in which human beings appeal...
August 20, 2006
To judge by the narratives of our culture, an observer might well come to the...
August 18, 2006
Since time immemorial, believers in a loving and just god have looked around at the...
August 16, 2006
"That most of the [kosher] laws are divine ordinances without reason given is 100 per...
August 14, 2006
One of the major purposes of religion is and has always been as a way...
August 13, 2006
This month, I will be posting a new essay series that is somewhat different from...
August 11, 2006
As far as most people are concerned, the 11th of August has no special significance....
August 09, 2006
Ever since the liberation of Germany by the Allied powers in World War II and...
August 08, 2006
Time magazine recently ran an article titled "10 Questions for Katharine Jefferts Schori", an interview...
August 05, 2006
Almost lost in the crush of recent religion-related news, there was one important story I'd...
August 03, 2006
The doors of the Observatory are closed, and an eager crowd has gathered before them,...
August 01, 2006
"Like most pastors who lead thriving evangelical megachurches, the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd was asked...

July 2006

July 31, 2006
In the first post of this series, I wrote about some of the diseases that...
July 28, 2006
For most of human history, the range of experience open to most people was narrow...
July 26, 2006
Offered for my readers' amusement, I recently came across the following humbly named site: The...
July 25, 2006
A new essay, "Parting the Parthenon", has been posted on Ebon Musings. The essay is...
July 24, 2006
In the post Should Atheists Evangelize?, back in March, I argued for the conclusion that...
July 22, 2006
Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled "The Roar of Many Waters", a frank...
July 19, 2006
In his book The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis puts a challenge to those who...
July 16, 2006
The history of the human species is, as Carl Sagan put it, a series of...
July 13, 2006
Discerning God's will is always a tricky business, but Billy Graham seems confident that he...
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