Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2020

How COVID-19 Shows Utilitarianism's Big Flaw

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What grounds morality? We all talk about whether actions are right or wrong, but what is it that makes something right or wrong to begi...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Holding up Irrationality as a Virtue When Kid's Lives Are at Stake

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Recently through my social media channels, I linked to this article on how assisted suicide laws in Belgium were leveraged to allow...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

Does Religion "Fly You Into Buildings"?

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Physicist and anti-theist Victor Stenger famously claimed "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Scientists Have Created Human-Pig Hybrids. So Now What?

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It can happen during busy news cycles that some of the more important stories are missed. That may have been the case last week as scie...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Can Evolution Produce Objective Morality?

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For the most part, people intuitively understand that moral concepts are real and they produce certain duties and obligations for each...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Why Virtue Matters in Politics

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Today, as Americans across the country select the next Commander in Chief, many go to the polls with trepidation at the choices set befo...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Battling the Culture Wars (podcast)

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Popular media today has an incredible influence on thoughts and attitudes. From blockbuster movies to superstar pop divas, our minds ar...
Monday, August 15, 2016

What if Morality was Based on Empiricism instead of Christianity?

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The Western world is what it is because of the enormous influence of Christianity. Without a Christian understanding of human beings as...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Morality: Answering "What Makes You Think You Know Better?"

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When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling on  Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman , t...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Are Christians Too Judgmental? (podcast)

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The most well-known verse in the Bible is not John 3:16, but Matthew 7:1—"Judge not lest ye be judged." People quote it all t...
Wednesday, June 08, 2016

Why Eternal Punishment is not Nonsensical

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Many people wrestle with the question of how an all-good and loving God could ever send someone to Hell. Some have claimed the two conc...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Let's Change our Message on Sex (video series)

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We live in a sex-saturated culture, one which warps our and our children's understanding. Yet, the church hasn't done a very goo...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

When Does Cultural Insanity Hit the Breaking Point?

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The Internet is ablaze with all kinds of opinions on about the shooting of Harambe, a seventeen-year-old gorilla zookeepers shot at the ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Morality Must be More than Increasing Happiness

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Moral knowledge is something people take for granted. We understand that someone who inflicts pain and torture for recreational purpose...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

How Can We be Equal without Christianity?

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Throughout the history of civilization, people have sought to understand themselves by seeking to understand their place in society. Wh...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

New-Fangled Values May Hold Old-Fashioned Dangers

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Downton Abbey , the BBC series showcasing the way of life of the English aristocracy and their servants proved to be a smash hit on bot...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Confusion of Atheistic Moral Grounding

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Is morality evidence for the existence of God? At first blush, the answer seems to be no. Certainly there are many moral people who don...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Moral Argument for God's Existence (podcast)

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Atheists claim the God of the Bible is evil, but what makes an action good or evil? Are right and wrong simply what we all agree upon or...
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