Tagged “religion”
- Christianity and Human Rights: A Historical Reality Check
- Can You Put a Number on the Divinity of Jesus?
- The Myth of Sacred Literature: Holy Books Judged as Books
- The Argument from Embarrassment, Inverted
- Euthyphro Is the Wrong Weapon
- Why Theology Has Never Discovered Anything
- Prediction Is the Real Magic
- Consolation Is Not Evidence
- The Argument That Convicts Itself
- The Two Kinds of Believers and the Hypocrisy of the Sophisticated
- The Mind Is the Brain, and Pretending Otherwise Is a Special Pleading
- Vicarious Atonement: Punishing the Innocent to Forgive the Guilty
- Moral Progress Happens Against Scripture, Not Because of It
- Hell: Infinite Punishment for Finite Crimes
- The Geography of Belief: Why Your Religion Is Almost Always Your Parents'
- Neurotheology: When God Is a Brain State
- What the Prayer Studies Actually Found
- The Incoherence of the Omni-Properties
- Omniscience vs. Free Will: The Contradiction at the Heart of Theism
- The Euthyphro Dilemma: Why Morality Cannot Come From God
- Divine Hiddenness: The Argument from Reasonable Non-Belief
- The Equivocation of "God": One Word, Many Gods
- The Problem of Evil: Why Suffering Breaks the God of the Philosophers
- The Pagan Origins of Christmas and Easter
- The Archaeology of the Conquest: When the Walls Didn't Fall
- The Missing Gospel: Q and the Synoptic Problem
- The Construction of the Canon: How Humans Decided What God Said
- The Silence of Contemporaries on Jesus
- What Brain Damage Tells Us About the Soul
- The Burden of Proof Is on the Claimant
- The Cosmological Argument Does Not Get You to God
- The Ethical Problem with Religious Childhood Indoctrination
- Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
- What Divine Command Theory Actually Implies
- The Outsider Test for Faith
- Unfalsifiability Is Not a Strength
- Faith Is Not a Virtue. It Is an Anti-Epistemology.
- Why Did Revelation Stop?
- The Suspicious Convenience of Religious Doctrine
- Religions Behave Like Memes, Not Revelations
- The Evolution of Yahweh: From Desert War God to Creator of the Universe
- The Morality of the "Ban"
- The Invention of Satan
- The Evolution of the Immortal Soul
- The Mesopotamian Roots of the Flood Myth
- The Exodus: Foundation Myth or Historical Fact?
- From Many to One: The Polytheistic Roots of Ancient Israel
- The "God of the Gaps" and Scientific Progress
- We Want Purposes That Evolution Did Not Give Us
- Religion as a Private Benefit Paid For by the Public
- People Mistake the Emotion a Topic Provokes for the Topic's Depth
- To Understand Religion Is to Understand Atheism
- Academia Is More Afraid of Blaming Religion Than of Blaming Anything Else
- Build a Myth Yourself — It Is the Only Way to Understand Myths
- Logic Cannot Bring Anything Into Existence
- "You Lack God's Perspective" Is a Catch-All, and Catch-Alls Are Worthless
- "Don't Ask Me About My Politics" Is How Bankrupt Systems Defend Themselves
- The Three Stages of Religion, and Why Stage Two Is Not the End
- Atheism May Be the World's Most Effective Force for Religious Peace