Individualistic atheism
March 12, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under religion, social and literary criticism
In general, I find people who complain about atheism (or “the New Atheism”) being a religion annoying and silly. I agree with the Daily Dish reader who pointed out that this argument boils down to saying:
Since Harris does not believe in a god he should not concern himself over the trifling matter of jihadists flying [...]
Taner Edis on… something
March 12, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under politics, religion, social and literary criticism, stupidity, whiskey tango foxtrot
I was going to call this post something like “Taner Edis’ criticisms of free speech,” but then I read a statement by Edis clarifying that he isn’t objecting to a legal right to free speech, he just thinks strong informal sanctions against saying certain things too loudly might (but isn’t necessarily) a good idea. Context: [...]
Continue Reading »Craig on the Ontological and (Leibnizian) Cosmological Arguments
March 8, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under G. E. Leibniz, William Lane Craig, metaphysics, people, philosophy, religion
Recently, I’ve been looking over the third edition of William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith, as well as the textbook he wrote with J.P. Moreland, Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Worldview. One thing these books have that’s missing from a lot of Craig’s works is an attempt to defend, in some detail, arguments that he usually [...]
Continue Reading »William Lane Craig is… er…
March 5, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under William Lane Craig, people, philosophy, religion, stupidity
… a poor hermeneuticist. Let me leave it at that, since I’m about to reviews my Secular Web review of his book, and Keith Augustine (the SecWeb library editor) thinks being important is polite.
What prompted this post is seeing how, in his essay for the anthology God is Great, God is Good, Craig that this [...]
Letters to Doubting Thomas (a review)
March 1, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, reviews
When Lukeprog posted his Ultimate Truth Seeker Challenge, I read over his reading list and saw that it was mostly books I had already read. But I put my name down anyway, because I figured the books I hadn’t read would be a good way to round out my philosophy of religion reading, and reviewing [...]
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