This is the first post in a series on immorality. Posting on this topic will continue every day this week. Whenever my boyfriend and I are walking in New Haven, he always gives something to any homeless person we come across. He stops and talks to the people we run into, apologizes if he’s not carrying cash, and tries to make it up to them later. I never do. I believe that I do more good in giving to organizations than individuals,... Read more
Previously on this blog I’ve written about morality, but in a highly abstracted, mathematically-inclined way. This week I’d like to take a more personal tack. I think I’m unusual among most atheists in that I see a great deal of truth in Catholic and Christian teaching about original sin, some worm at the heart of the apple. It’s why I’ve found some parts of Christian ethics extremely helpful in my own life. Opening Myself to Sin – Treating moral... Read more
Logos, a Christian magazine on campus is offering students the option to write in and have questions answered by Dr. Ravi Zacharias, an apologist and preacher. The deadline for sending in questions is tomorrow night, and I’m not sure what I want to ask. I have plenty of questions about the internal coherence of Christianity, and I’m interested in the answers, but I’m not an atheist because I think some parts of Christianity are in tension with each other. The... Read more
–1– This week at Unequally Yoked, I’ve been discussing the three questions/concerns that best summarize why I do not believe in Christianity. I started with questions about conversions and ended up, unsurprisingly, on the subject of math. (Again). I really appreciate your comments, and I’ll be writing a talkback post today, so if you have questions/disagreements, please speak out. I’ll announce the topic for next week’s series this weekend. (Right now, I’m leaning towards a discussion of how I think about/classify the morality... Read more
This post is one in a series on why I do not believe in Christianity. You can check out all previous posts at the series index. I don’t want to run afoul of the Courtier’s Reply fallacy. No one should need a Ph.D. in theology to be able to form some basic beliefs about God. Unfortunately, in writing this post, I seem to have established that you need a background in topology to talk to me about morality. If parts... Read more
This post is one in a series of reasons I don’t believe in Christianity. You can check out the series index to see all parts of this sequence. Over the summer, I read “The Mark of a Masterpiece,” an excellent New Yorker story by David Grann. The piece has the feeling of a thriller, opening with the story of art historian Martin Kemp’s discovery of a possible drawing by Leonardo da Vinci and following him through his attempts at verification. The article... Read more
This is the first in a series of posts about why I don’t believe in Christianity. You can check out all posts in this series here. If I am not personally convinced by apologetic arguments for Christianity or if I concede that it is impossible to be converted purely through intellectual arguments, as Kevin has argued in the comments here before, there remains the testimony of converts. Ought I be moved by the shifts of former atheists and skeptics like Francis Collins?... Read more
Update: I was pleased to see that Catholic convert and blogger Mark Shea chose these scriptural passages as the inspiration for column at Inside Catholic. Check it out here. This post is about what seemed to me to be an inconsistency in the Gospel, but is not meant to be a debunking of Christianity or an explanation of why I do not believe (I’ll be trying my hand at that later in the day). Therefore, I’m not trying to start... Read more
I’ve used this blog to pick at some parts of religion that I find off-putting (usually on a political level), but I haven’t spent that much time explaining why I don’t believe in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, etc, etc, etc. The other week, I was in a long conversation with a student proselytizing for a Christian group on campus. It made me think more deeply about what my most basic, factual objections to Christianity are (which are distinct... Read more
–1– This week feels like last week all over again. Once again, I’m due for another response to Justin Martyr on gay adoption. That post will run next week. I’m also still not quite done with my sequence of posts on the theology of Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series. The last post in that sequence will go up some time this weekend. That means that a new featured sequence will start next week… –2– And speaking of which: this week... Read more
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