"A legitimate miracle claim--one that requires a God--calls for the highest level of the strongest objective evidence." One common reason for this claim is that an event...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 hour ago
No, I don't. We don't agree on complete morality. Democracy or might makes right. Democracy uses intersubjective morality. In a universe where psychopaths and sociopaths morality reigns...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
Ha!
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 5 hours ago
It is not just a question of sorting, but according to the letters I keep getting from my township, the amount of non-recyclable stuff people put in their recycling bins, and the condition of the...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”?
The OP headline is an example of Betteridge's Law of Headlines: when a headline asks a question, the answer is always no.
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 6 hours ago
I learned several years ago what a miserably low percentage of the plastic I put out in my recycling bin actually gets recycled. My township regularly sends everyone a letter reminding them what...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 6 hours ago
Household recycling requires sorting at a vast scale.
For decades I've read about how the problem of sorting rubbish is a perfect problem for AI/robotics to solve....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 7 hours ago
Theology is the only field I know of with multiple irreconcilable paradigms, every one of which is based entirely on conjecture. Theology puts forward arguments. Science puts forward objective...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 7 hours ago
If you demand complete agreement on morality before we can affirm it, then you're letting psychopaths and sociopaths trump any attempt at it. They have opted out of morality, so they have no say on...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 7 hours ago
I suppose whatever common ground can be found in that perspective.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 8 hours ago
But moral rules have to be based on something.
What is best for the general/overall well-being of the group?
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 8 hours ago
Yet I still receive notifications and publications from the BU School of Theology. Its magazine is called Focus, and one 2024 issue was titled: Theological Humility: For the Sake of the...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 8 hours ago
No one should insist that morality is wrong simply because someone disagrees, or even lots of someone's.
Intersubjective Morality? Here's what AI says:-...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 8 hours ago
I was just watching this, which is also worrisome:-
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 9 hours ago
It's sad to see so much brainpower wasted on wild goose chases, when there is so much needed science not being done.
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 9 hours ago
Hence one of the thoughts that plagued me in seminary—as we claimed to be so sure what our god was like—was our total isolation as humans in the Cosmos. We have no clue, no idea...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 9 hours ago
I saw one person describe Barth as a man who couldn't hold his ink.
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 10 hours ago
The religious ones are backed by a Supreme authority figure. Just look at the book of Job! Human beings can also force their views on us. But they are more susceptible to reason, for onevthing, but...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 10 hours ago
That is the main difference. You can argue with the secular one, but you are just supposed to submit to the other.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 11 hours ago
In 1982 I wrote my M.A. thesis on "Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Word." The question was how we are to know doctrine and where it comes from. In the end it was as illusive as "a...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 11 hours ago
A god type of morality is probably, over all, the worst type of morality. After all, the rest of us cannot reason with it.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 11 hours ago
I think all morality is ultimately secular. It is just a contrast between a morality defined by one set of people who then justify it by attributing it to a god, versus another set of humans who...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 11 hours ago
As I announced before, I wrote a paper for a symposium on "atheist ethics without God". It's being peer reviewed now and should be published on or about July 16th. When it does I'll link to it....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 11 hours ago
Ultimately, the quesion here is morality/suffering/evil as they relate to God/gods/religion(s) versus rationality without supposing a supernatural power.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 12 hours ago
For one thing secular moralities work. Religious ones, not that much.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 12 hours ago