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A Very Nietzschean Christmas
This cartoon from Big Fat Whale has something for all us war-on-Christmas foot soldiers* -- I particularly like the Richard Dawkins snow man, the wreath design, and the Nietzsche sweater, though I think Nietzsche was an agonized sort of atheist rathe...
Nietzsche, Man of Straw
TBWBoSRaDH* nicely captures what makes Nietzsche so many Christians' favorite atheist: Friedrich Nietzsche was the product of a line of Lutherans pastors, so it should not surprise that his atheism engages so directly, and inverts so forcefully, th...
Truth Matters?
Responding to more brazen intellectual dishonesty from Chris Mooney, Ophelia Benson issues a reminder of what is and is not eligible for compromise: [W]hat's at stake with this disagreement - atheism v vague woolly whateverism - is basically epistemo...
Thomas Aquinas: No Shoulder-Shrugger
Karen Armstrong said the following in an interview with NPR's Terry Gross:Thomas Aquinas in his great work the "Summa Theologica," he says yes, now here are some proofs to show that something brought something into existence when there could have bee...
Shorter Makarios
Makarios on the Objectivity of Moral Values:Morals are objective, not subject to people's reactions. Here's proof: when something wrong is done to you, you have a negative reaction in which you say the thing done to you was wrong.The insights shorter...
What Works and Sentiment
A few years back, Taner Edis reviewed Michael Martin's Atheism, Morality, and Meaning, and came to some rather odd conclusions for an avowed non-believer:For all its intellectual defects, religion does appear to help many of us cope with such [existe...
Two Ambivalent Tastes that Taste Great Together: The Nietzsche Family Circus
Having decided earlier today that I shall no longer be surprised at anything, ever*, I now present my new favorite thing, and disavow, deny, denounce, and reject any surprise that it should result from the combination of two things for which I have a...
Sunday Unhelpful Elisions Blogging: Religion and Morality
It's bad enough that religious believers routinely equate god-belief with morality, a confusion that goes back at least as far as the Decalogue, which elevates brand loyalty to Jehovah to the first rank of moral demands. It's arguably worse when non-...
What Happens If Gays Marry?
Rod Dreher has interviewed Maggie Ghallager, who wants everyone to know that there are terrible, horrible, no good, very bad social consequences to legalizing same-sex marriage. Curiously, despite the open-mic, open-ended nature of the interview, Gha...
Public Policy and "Trust"
A peculiar exchange comes at roughly the 1:10 mark of this video of Senator McCaskill's meeting with constituents: "We don't trust you!" shouts at least one of the far-right screamers, to which McCaskill responds with a slightly plaintive repetition,...
