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Subjective views of morality and the burden of proof
July 28th, 200902:06 AM ETMost atheists recognize that the existence of objective moral facts tells against atheism, and so they reject objective moral facts. On this view there is no objective moral fact about the woman who killed and ate part of her three week old baby. Thus the only moral facts are those relative to the judgments of individuals. Most of us disapprove of ... -
Atheism and the meaningless life
July 27th, 200911:54 AM ETTwenty ago Air Supply sang about "Making love out of nothing at all." A challenging task no doubt. But it ain't nothing compared to making meaning out of nothing at all. And that is the challenge faced by the atheist who denies that there is any objective meaning. (There is another kind of atheist but I haven't heard a peep from that kind in this b... -
Atheism as a fad and a worldview
July 21st, 200912:21 PM ETAtheism provides the first step in a worldview, namely the worldview known as "naturalism". Naturalism of one or another sort has been around since at least the ancient Greeks. And since the ancient Greeks there have been some who have sought to build a comprehensive naturalistic worldview. Fastforward to the mid-twentieth century and a whole new ... -
Scattered responses to my atheistic readership
July 20th, 200910:40 AM ETOver the years I have found it frustrating that so many atheists reject a very narrow and often distorted conception of Christianity without realizing how much more complex this religious tradition is. And so in my last post I made a modest plea that they simply begin to recognize this complexity by citing three key examples. By doing this the... -
A note to atheists before they attempt to refute Christianity
July 18th, 200911:35 PM ETI have taken my share of black eyes in this blog by daring to tell atheists what they (ought to) believe. Who am I, a Christian theist, to inform an atheist what their beliefs are (or ought to be)? While I may not agree entirely (I still hold doggedly that atheism entails a knowledge or belief claim that God does not exist), I s... -
Can the atheist prove that God does not exist?
July 17th, 200911:22 AM ETOne of my skeptical readers, EnoNomi, takes issue with my claim that atheists and agnostics shoulder an evidential burden to defend their belief just as much as the theist does. This is what EnoNomi writes: "It's not up to the Atheist or the Agnostic to prove anything because you can't prove a negative. I can no more prove that your god doesn't ex... -
If you believe in God, should you believe in Santa Claus too?
July 16th, 200910:53 AM ETWell I must say, I had a great time reading the comments, critiques and insults that came in after my last post with its modest attempt to define "atheism". In particular, many self-described atheists took umbrage to my claim that atheism is denial of the proposition that God exists. (Apparently my smarmy attitude was also ripe for verbal assault.)... -
What is atheism? A note to my atheist friends
July 14th, 200912:56 PM ETI must say that as a general rule I like the atheists I meet. Oh sure, there is the odd mean fundamentalist atheist out there, just like in every other belief system. But most atheists I talk with are intelligent and thoughtful, if at times overly defensive. As a result, atheists generally are great company at a coffee shop, where a heady con... -
When not to argue with an atheist
July 03rd, 200905:06 PM ETI have had many great conversations with kind, thoughtful atheists who were passionate about the truth and loved nothing more than to engage in a good dialogue. So far as I could see, they were interested in faith but had some serious intellectual hangups. We shared a mutual respect and learned from one another. Then there are those other atheists... -
Is atheism ever morally justified?
July 02nd, 200911:50 PM ET"Tell me about the god you don't believe in because I probably don't believe in him either," There is a lot of truth in this old quip. Whenever someone identifies him or herself as an atheist we should always take the time to ask for a definition of the god this person does not believe in. It may just be that we don't believe in this god either. ...
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