Category: Religion

• The Truth Behind Religion - Cognitive science offers an explanation.


• Slimy Equivocation - On redefining 'religion' to make teaching it in schools sound more appealing.


• Whose Freedom? - Argues that appealing to free will actually exacerbates the problem of evil.


• Natural Evil - More on the problem of evil, by way of natural disasters like the recent tsunami. See also: God and Evil.


• But What Purpose God? - You can't explain away a mystery by appealing to something even more mysterious.


• Doubting Disbelief - On theists who try to second-guess atheists.


• Religion, Past and Present - and overrated in both.


• Placebo Prayers - The scientific study of whether prayer has healing effects.


• Pascal's Wager - Why it's one of the worse philosophical arguments ever.


• The Argument From Hell - Would a benevolent God condemn honest non-believers to eternal damnation?


• The Asan Heresy - Selected highlights about philosophy & religion from Jason Kuznicki's blog-novel.


• God-Given Value - How are God's subjective preferences supposed to be any more "objectively real" than yours or mine? (See also Avoiding Nihilism and Musings on The Meaning of Life)


• God and Morality - essay.


• Morality, Divinity, and Humanity - Does evolution threaten ethics? Is a literal interpretation of Genesis more morally upright?


• Religious Experiences - Do mystical experiences justify belief in God?


• A Challenge to Agnostics - Why not also suspend belief in the tooth fairy?


• Divine Opinion - Could an omniscient being still have opinions?


• Possibly Necessary - Why the S5 modal argument for God's existence is unsound; and what it means to say that a purportedly necessary being seems 'possible'.


• Carnival of the Godless #4 - Lots of links, and a discussion of meta-atheism.