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 [...]
Category Archives: ethics
Crappy sex-phobic arguments
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 30, 2010
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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 [...]
Luke on reformed epistemology and moral realism
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 26, 2010
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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 [...]
BK’s defense of damnation for non-believers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 11, 2010
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I’ve noticed that lately, rebuttal-worthy posts on Evangelical blogs are a lot harder to find. Thus, in some ways, things like this are a relief to find… though I’m not sure I’d consider it “worthy.” It’s by good ‘ol BK of Christian CADRE about the problem that, according to some extremely influential passages in Christian [...]