Russell Blackford has a post arguing that tone is important, even if a lot of the things people say about tone are foolish: For these sorts of reasons, intelligent discussion of tone is always in order. The problem is likely to be that a lot of discussion of tone is just not very intelligent – [...]
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“God,” real meanings, and useful meanings
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 29, 2009
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Yesterday, Jerry Coyne spotted yet another exampleof something that I see quite a bit: accusations that prominent atheists believe that literalism is the true form of religion. Though talk of literalism is misleading, there’s also an issue of whether leading atheists have made any claims at all about the “real” form of religion. Jerry Coyne [...]
Refusing to believe (anything at all)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 23, 2009
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When did people get the idea that tolerance means not having any strong opinions on anything? I occasionally made fun of this at my old blog, but I recently stumbled across a more extreme example: one of the things that struck me about Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God (aside from the butchering of Aquinas [...]
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Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 19, 2009
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It’s been too long since I’ve done this…