Reading Time: 7 minutes The past has finally caught up with Donald Trump. This has been a long and torturous story to show that eventually, and even when we thought it wouldn’t, bad people doing bad things will end up in trouble. But what exactly has the former president done wrong? The Jan. 6 insurrection While Andrew Clyde, the […]
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Replacing the Senior Liberal Judge on the Supreme Court
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is an interesting little watch concerning the 83-year-old Stephen Breyer’s future on the Supreme Court. It is particularly pertinent given the absolute shocker that is taking place in Texas at the moment… Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy […]
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Kenyan Lawyer Sues Israel, Italy for Killing Jesus Christ, Once Again
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a deliciously ridiculous story. Of course, it’s true. People are silly. From the UG Standard: A Kenyan lawyer Dolo Ididis is attempting to acquit Jesus of the crimes he was found guilty of committing some 2,000 years ago and overturn the death penalty handed down as a result, and has returned to the […]
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Humanists Call for Full Investigation and Possible Impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh
Reading Time: 2 minutes From the American Humanist Association: The American Humanist Association (AHA), joins the Freedom from Religion Foundation, in calling for a full investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. If a new investigation finds that Kavanaugh had lied to Congress, the AHA will call for his immediate impeachment, since lying to Congress is an impeachable offense. The […]
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The Dependence of Biblical Law Codes on Ancient Near Eastern Law Codes (II)
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am writing a book on the Exodus to build on both my previous two books (The Nativity: A Critical Examination [UK] and is The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]). The working title is The Exodus: A Critical Examination of the Moses Story. I previously posted the introduction to my chapter on the law codes of […]
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Statement from the AHA on the verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial
Reading Time: 2 minutes So, the verdict was “guilty on all counts”, which means that about half the country will be satisfied with the result, and half of the country are still wishing they were in 1950s Mississippi. This is from the AHA: The American Humanist Association is satisfied by the verdict found in the Derek Chauvin trial by […]
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Chauvin, Causality and JL Mackie’s INUS
Reading Time: 9 minutes You could be mistaken for thinking that this post was about free will. It can be, but I am more concerned with the general idea of causality in the context of Derek Chauvin’s court case to decide whether the death of George Floyd was homicide or not. Let me first introduce you to or remind you of […]
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Atlanta Shooter’s Church Deletes Dodgy Sermons
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Atlanta gunman recently shot a number of women, most of them being Asian American women. This has caused a number of uncomfortable conversations to take place – was this a case of misogyny or good old-fashioned racism, or both, or neither? FiveThirtyEight had a really worthwhile conversation on this that I got a lot […]
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Comments on the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal
Reading Time: 10 minutes I recently ran a pretty big article on the statistics for paedophilia in the Catholic Church, which received a number of very interesting comments that I think are worth sharing with you. Thanks muchly to the readership for indulging. Astrin Ymris: Many years ago in an online debate I pointed out that it didn’t really […]
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Free Will: Just Deserts
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am really excited to have received in the post (from Bookshop.org, the competitor to Amazon that reimburses local bookshops with 30% of the value of the book) my friend Gregg Caruso’s book with Daniel Dennett. It’s a debate book over free will called Just Deserts [UK], and this idea of just deserts looks to be the […]