Something I think doesn’t get enough attention in discussions about God is how much of the “evidence” people point to lines up neatly with what we already know about human cognition. In particular, three ideas keep cropping up for me: hyperactive agency detection, “third person” or sensed-presence experiences, and…
Camus ends The Myth of Sisyphus with a line that unsettles people more than it reassures them; “We must imagine Sisyphus happy.” It sounds like a trick. A platitude. A way of pretending that suffering isn’t real. I don’t think that’s what Camus meant at all. Sisyphus…
Is it time to start talking about what religion is doing to people yet? What happened on Bondi Beach — where people gathered to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah — is nothing short of a national tragedy. Fifteen innocent lives were taken, and dozens more injured, when gunmen opened fire on families,…
Someone once asked me what my worldview was as a theological non-cognitivist (which I would argue makes me an atheist). It's an interesting question, not because my worldview is obscure, but because it seems to upset so many people. Baffling, I know, but nonetheless, here we go. I…
The problem of evil still crops up in my theological discussion groups, as it will likely ever do, so I wanted to just get my perspective out there on the topic. If God exists and possesses genuine omniscience, then God does not merely know all possible outcomes, God knows the…
I'd been meaning to get back into the blogosphere again for some time, but procrastinated for over a decade instead. Maybe this time it'll stick? Anyway, you most likely won't find much interesting in here, unless you like random philosophy, weird theology contesting, Linux…
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