It’s been too long since I’ve done this…
First, I would like to congratulate Tucker Max on becoming a full-fledged celebrity. Well, it’s an odd achievement, since the status was pretty much just awarded by Tucker to himself. But congratulations anyway. Oh, and the news coverage of his recent talk is proof that the word “rape” has become meaningless in the words of college campus feminists.
If you want to see me get pissy about what constitutes “symbolic meaning,” you can do it over at Philosophy, etc.
John Loftus is still asking for a chance to debate William Lane Craig. I’m still supporting him.
Apparently, 40 percent of modern American babies are bastards. Who knew? But then, 60 percent of modern people think all Americans are bastards.
Alan Jacobs complains about Andrew Sullivan’s statements on epistemology and religion. Jacobs is obviously right.
On the other hand, Andrew is right that morality cannot be dismissed as “being emotional.” I hate it when people do this in debates about religion: both the moral argument for theism and the argument from evil for atheism are often dismissed as “appeals to emotion,” when intelligent statements of these arguments are nothing but the sort. People who make this claim reveal themselves as assuming that morality is nothing but emotion.
Finally, the LA Times carries a terribly strange column. It’s main complaint is that atheism is boring, and I sympathize to an extent, but then why does the author bother writing about it? And if discussions of religion are so boring, why did she put out a book on the subject? HT: PZ and Hemant.
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