New Ways to Do Post-Death
Bert posted the last article on funerals and alternatives to cremation. This sparked a memory of a fascinating article I read a few years ago in The New Humanist - well worth subscribing
Jonathan MS Pearce
Friday Fun
I thought I'd throw in a few memes for your delectation. Some fun, some quite serious and anger-inducing!
Terrible Debate Tactics: God the Father, and Visiting Sins over Generations
I am going to give you a crash course in theists making claims and then evading arguments that trash their claims. Some time ago, I wrote a piece looking critically at the "
School concedes in collective worship legal case – will provide alternative assemblies
This is genuinely brilliant news for those who have long campaigned for the UK statutory requirement for schools to provide Christian collective worship, technically on a daily basis. In reality, it doesn'
Low-Skilled Migration: No Effect on Wages
The claim is trotted out very commonly when discussing immigration and was certainly claimed before the EU referendum in the UK back in 2016. Here, Nobel Prize-winning economist puts the claim, and many
"My best friend is God"
My twin boys are nine-years-old and we were returning from a football match today, bringing one of their friends back as well. Their friend is a Christian, for what that might mean to
AOC Burns Rubin
I just had to post this because it was so delicious. I don't really know much about Dave Rubin other than that he is a conservative commentator that the left loves
Nations Criminalizing Blasphemy Blasted in NEW Report
This is from the American Humanist Association: A report on the human rights of nonreligious people warns “the world is divided” on blasphemy and apostasy laws, “with many states still enforcing these laws,
Religiosity and Anti-Vaxxers
Religiosity is dropping around the United States, that much is obvious from the stats. However, there has been a recent spike in those claiming to be religious, in at kindergarten age, in Vermont.
Act & Potency: Responding to a Critic
Some weeks back, I posted a short piece on act and potency, "Criticising the Idea of Potential and Actuality in Natural Law Philosophy" in which I quoted extensively from a book
The Problem of Evil, Skeptical Theism and "Good Reasons"
I have been discussing the Problem of Evil (POE) a bit recently, particularly the Logical Problem of Evil (LPOE), and without wanting to defend theism and belief in God, I have been defending
Discussing the Logical Problem of Evil & Skeptical Theism
An interesting thread has developed on the thread to the post concerning the Logical Problem of Evil (LPOE) - thanks to those involved. I thought I would post some specific ones here for