Is God Necessary for Morality? William Lane Craig v. Shelly Kagan
Even some Christians think Dr. Craig lost this debate.
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Is God Necessary for Morality? from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo.
Turek would counter that Christianity should be judged based on what Jesus actually taught and what the evidence for his resurrection shows, not how Christians actually are. How they actually are...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 11 hours ago
Is this supposed to be some sort of defense of Christianity? I must say it's pretty pathetic. It is a known fact that in order for one to be a "true" Christian he/she must possess...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 14 hours ago
A more painful example of moral conundrum is the mother of two small children hiking in the woods. Two bears come up. One attacks her son (4), the other attacks her daughter (5). The bears are 50...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 14 hours ago
You can get lost down in the weeds of trying to debate what actually went down, but my primitive brains asks, "What kind of God would leave the most important message imaginable to...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 14 hours ago
And Frank Turek would say, with great dramatic flair: "You can't judge a religion by its abuse".
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 15 hours ago
It seems so hopeless, as if all we can do is extend life as we know it. But then, that seems to be our fate either way.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 15 hours ago
The parable of the Greatest teacher One day Jesus called his disciples to him. He asked they bring with them all those who could read and write, all those who could faithfully record history. When...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 15 hours ago
One of the biggest "mass murderers" on the planet at the moment, on a number of different levels, including climate change, is that useless orange fucker sitting at the...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 17 hours ago
4. If suffering is necessary for building our souls, what then of technology that reduces suffering? Do modern surgical patients remain stunted in terms of soul development since...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 20 hours ago
Good stuff!
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 21 hours ago
As Richard Feynman said, "There is no one easier to fool than yourself." Truth rarely means much in religion. People want to be told what they want to hear, and they tend to shop around for...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 1 day ago
I think people perform a subconscious operation of self-gaslighting in order to accept the belief pushed on them by their society. Once they do that, they become ready to reject the most basic...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 1 day ago
When you weigh the enormous range of things in which it is possible to have faith against objective evidence with is all but non-existent, then what ever a person has faith in is almost certainly...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 1 day ago
The point here, is when you reduce folk to the equivalent of a murderer for not recycling plastic, when doing so is a complete waste of their time, you are hardly likely to win anyone over....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
But climate change presents anyone who has money with an opportunity to commit a perfect crime.
It's not a "perfect crime" until it first becomes a crime....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
I wonder how many more would murder if there was no penalty for it, or they could get away with it?
Plato asked much the same question in his Republic with his
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 days ago
While there might be some glimmer of underlying principle behind your analogy, I think it is a bit extreme.
You're absolutely right - a person who believes science is...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 days ago
I have said it a number of times before: It is very hard to convince a religious believer that what they believe in is all a man-made artifice, because they already know it. That is,...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 3 days ago
The essence of religion might be the willingness of people to keep excusing the failures of their deity or deities.
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 3 days ago
I wonder if the same people feel put off bothering to refrain from committing murder when they read about other people committing murder.
While there might be some glimmer...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 days ago
But with only around 5% being recycled, I wonder what difference it makes, anyway.
When I say that, I don't mean that I stopped recycling because I think it serves no...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 days ago
It doesn't help when stories of nefarious shenanigan's going on with waste, hit the news. It is disheartening and puts folk off bothering.
I wonder if the same...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 days ago
That is exactly the problem of sorting: keeping the various waste items separate. If items are contaminated, then you needed more sorting at the source, to prevent the various kinds of waste from...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 days ago
But with only around 5% being recycled, I wonder what difference it makes, anyway.
1. Morality is not the same thing as efficacy. For example, suppose you go your whole life...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 days ago
You see something similar* when Trumpers respond to every factual claim about the latest lie from Trump, or the latest evil deed, with "TDS". That's it, just three coded letters. As...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 4 days ago