Yesterday, I saw a news story announcing that most young people today (specifically the 18-29 crowd) don’t go to church and consider themselves “more spiritual than religious.” Thomas of WWGHA calls the story heartwarming. I disagree: look at the rest of the details of the report, you’ll notice that close to two-thirds identify as Christian, [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Carnivalia
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 26, 2010
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The latest editions of the Carnival of the Godless, Philosophy Carnival, and Humanist Symposium are now all up.
A sane conservative on global warming
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 26, 2010
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Jim Manzi explains why, even though he’s skeptical of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, etc. he insists on telling people that global warming is real: Earlier in the post you said of the global warming debate that you “haven’t taken the time to study it”. Later in the post you say that “If the issue is truly [...]
Atheists are smart because of SEX
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 23, 2010
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Or, rather, smart people become atheists because of sex, so says a psychology today blogger (HT: WWGHA). The psychology today blogger describes this as a “silly reason,” and obviously he means to make it sound embarrassing. But it makes the most sense if you understand it in a less crude way. I grew up in [...]
Evangelicals and the death of Antony Flew
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 20, 2010
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Earlier this month (April 8th, to be exact), Antony Flew died. The best thing I’ve seen on his death is by Keith Parsons: I rank Flew as second only to Bertrand Russell as a writer of pellucid, witty, and penetrating philosophical prose, and Flew’s treatment of the theistic arguments was far deeper and more rigorous [...]