An Open Letter to Religious Believers on God and Evil
August 4, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under ethics, philosophy, religion
I’ve written a new essay on the problem of evil, and here’s the teaser:
Since this letter is a bit long, I’m going to repeat myself just so there’s no confusion about what the point is. The only point I have to make in this letter is that I’ve never been able to think the following [...]
Craig on the moral argument
April 3, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under William Lane Craig, ethics, metaphysics, people, philosophy, religion, stupidity
This is the third and last of my posts on the arguments in the third edition of William Lane Craig’s book Reasonable Faith. The previous posts in the series are Craig on the ontological and (Leibnizian) cosmological arguments and Craig on the teleological argument. Most of the rest of the contents of the book [...]
Continue Reading »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 [...]
Continue Reading »Crappy sex-phobic arguments
January 30, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under ethics, philosophy, religion, stupidity
One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers wrote in to lecture him on the evils of masturbation, saying, “The main sin is that masturbation (with minuscule exception) involves fantasy which is a distortion or absence of reality. In other words, it is a lie.”
Can you say give me a fucking break? The idea that fantasy is so [...]
Luke on reformed epistemology and moral realism
January 26, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, ethics, philosophy, religion
In his blogging, Luke of Common Sense Atheism has made some fairly harsh, and largely unexplained, swipes at reformed epistemology (Alvin Plantinga’s project of trying to show we can accept Christian doctrine without any argument or evidence for doing so), saying things like “reformed epistemology is neither” and that it is a “Candidate for ‘Dumbest [...]
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