The Religious Privilege in the House of Lords
The religious nature of aspects of the House of Lords (HOL) came up in another thread here at ATP yesterday, so I thought I would explain how the HOL works in this regard,
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‘Long-term trend away from religion looks set to accelerate’: BHA Comments on Survey
From the BHA: Today sees the publication of the latest annual results from NatCen Social Research’s British Social Attitudes Survey. The question in the survey about religious belonging records 48% of the
Creation vs. Big Bang
I have been reading a lot of Thomas Paine recently. I just finished “Age of Reason.” I know that Robert Ingersoll, “The Great Agnostic” of the 19th Century, admired Paine, and it is
Heaven, Hell, and Philosophical Zombies
In the a google hangout from a few years back, with Counter Apologist and Reasonable Doubts' Justin Schieber on the Evidential Problem of Evil, we were talking about the great argument against
Moral progression and relativism in the testaments
I am on holiday at the moment asked trying to do this on my mobile phone so bear with me. fsck recently made a comment on a thread which included: I don'
William Lane Craig - Taking to Task his Claim "Consequentialism is a terrible ethic"
Watch this, especially from 1:28:30. Craig was involved in a series of discussions in Australia with Laurence Krauss regarding philosophy and science. Unfortunately, Krauss is no great philosopher, and philosophy is
Holiday!
Just to let you know that I am on holiday for a week, but will try to post if I can, and will hopefully be able to schedule some posts from Bert Bigelow
God Loves Infant Death - How Most Souls in Heaven are Automatons
Some time ago I posted a piece called God Loves Abortion, to which Andy Schueler added a nice piece on conception and the creation of the soul and personhood from a biological perspective.
Kentucky Inquisition
I left a comment on a website that described some political machinations in the state of Kentucky. A county legal official promoted a questionnaire for local politicians, asking them about their religious views.
Pharaoh and the Hardening of Hearts
I want to now talk about the intervening God, and how God can force people’s hands. It seems to me that Christians quite often have their cakes, and then eat them too!
God's Interaction as Invalidating the Free Will Theodicy
Two thousand years ago, before he took a very long holiday indeed, God was often meddling in his own creation, interacting with people, seemingly on a whim. Nowadays, not so much. However, I
My New Chapter on Free Will Reckoned to be Best Chapter
With the kind of self-congratulatory marketing that one has to do to get "out there", I am pleased to announce this great review of John Loftus' new anthology, Christianity in