Reading Time: 3 minutes Evangelizing Jesus to strangers (or worse, friends) can be a stressful process. They might think you’re stupid or weird. Now imagine arguing for COVID vaccines with an anti-vaxxer. You might fail to convince, but you won’t feel weird. Why the difference?
Refuting Religion
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The myth of Jesus’ resurrection
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jesus was crucified, died, and was resurrected this weekend many hundreds of years ago. Oh what joy this brings. To Christians. Except it didn’t happen. Well, certainly not the resurrection bit. I’m what I call a “minimal historicist,” which is to say I believe Jesus existed (though I: won’t die on that hill), but that […]
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The argument against God from sporadic miracles
Reading Time: 3 minutes OnlySky · The argument against God from sporadic miracles | Jonathan MS Pearce I recently debated apologist Jonathan McLatchie about miracles and, during it, I brought up an argument I have been mulling over: the “argument against God from sporadic miracles.” This is also a position I discussed a little in my great conversation with […]
Posted inPhilosophy
Where do we get our morals?
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you, like me, are atheist, then you have no doubt had this question leveled at you as well. It’s ubiquitous in such circles, but it has no merit, really. Rather similar is the idea that if “God is dead” then we will just go about murdering babies. Let sociologist and colleague here at OnlySky […]
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New book announcement: 30 Arguments Against the Existence of ‘God’, Heaven, Hell, Satan, and Divine Design
Reading Time: 5 minutes “God” is arguably a nebulous term and might well mean a different thing to each of the many people who believe in it. In my new book 30 Arguments Against the Existence of “God”, Heaven, Hell, Satan, and Divine Design [UK], I take the commonality we see in many views, the understanding of classical theism, […]
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Divine command theory defended, and re-attacked
Reading Time: 5 minutes Having recently written a piece drawing on fellow OnlySky writing colleague Phil Zuckerman’s brilliant book What It Means To Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, it is always nice to receive critiques of my writing. Just to remind you, the piece was about Divine Command Theory (DCT), which is the […]
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7 more ways Christian thinking is like flat earth thinking
Reading Time: 7 minutes Is the earth flat? Did God create the universe? These two worldviews are surprisingly similar. Let’s add 7 more similarities to the list.
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Christian thinking is like flat earth thinking
Reading Time: 5 minutes A flat-earth treatise fails in many ways. Surprisingly, the argument for Christianity fails in similar ways. Let’s compare.
Posted inPhilosophy
Divine command theory: How the religious are often not moral agents
Reading Time: 8 minutes Phil Zuckerman, a sociologist of religion and nonreligion and fellow OnlySky columnist, has written a superb book called What It Means To Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life that should be compulsory reading. One of the early chapters, “You Will Obey,” is well worth dwelling on as it zeroes […]
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Silver-Bullet Argument #29: Because Christianity is as plausible as a flat earth
Reading Time: 10 minutes Let’s cobble together the best defense possible for the flat earth model. How similar is it to arguments for Christianity and Creationism?