Recently, The Uncredible Hallq reported that Ross Douthat was an OK guy. We here at The Uncredible Hallq regret that error. In fact, Douthat is deluded slime. Ross Douthat recently defended the Pope’s anti-condom stance. His reasoning? Mainly, that no one has proved that opposition to condom use from religious crazies does any harm, or [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Will Craig trounce Hitchens in debate?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 30, 2009
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Via John Loftus, I’ve learned that William Lane Craig will be debating Christopher Hitchens. Loftus predicts an easy win for Craig. At first, I was inclined to agree. I wasn’t really a fan of God is not Great, which seemed more like a cash-in on the success of other atheist books than a serious attempt [...]
The utilitarian and the shallow pond
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 27, 2009
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Consider a saintly utlitarian, who believes that it is always morally right to do whatever will have the best effects for everybody concerned, on average, in the long run. He knows that, in general, the best way for him to make people’s lives better is to devote all his energy into helping the poorest of [...]
Carnivalia
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 27, 2009
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The 88th Philosophers’s Carnival is up at KennyPearce.net;The 113th Carnival of the Godless is up at Daylight Atheism; and the 34th
Religion in the worst places on Earth
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 24, 2009
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If you live in the U.S., it’s very easy to get complacent about religion. The most serious Bad Thing traceable to religion in recent years was the September 11th attacks, which involved a relatively small number of deaths (as I pointed out in my foray into film criticism). For the vast majority of Americans who [...]