Why it is not wrong to kill chickens
Is it ever right to kill a chicken? Or a dog, or a human being? If not, who says so? God, or our conscience, or plain reason, or utilitarian consequences? […]
Tag Archives: morality
Where Have All the Relativists Gone?
For decades now, Christians have warned about the consequences of moral relativism. The notions that all moral ideas are equal or that no one has the right to judge anything anyone else […]
All the Goodness in the World
We are bargain hunters, all of us. We make bargains with God, with reality or the cosmos or karma or whatever. We are convinced someone or something out there is keeping […]
Enlightenment and Infidelity
Another day, another media attempt to redress ‘old-fashioned’ sexual ethics. Perhaps you read or heard that on 20th July, a vigilante group by the name of the Impact Team announced […]
An Evolutionary Tale of Riders and Elephants
A helpful, colorful metaphor is something of a rarity in academic writing. Especially in the halls of science, where scholars across disciplines often invoke specialized concepts and technical jargon, the […]
Is Secularism a Faith?
In a fascinating review of Charles Taylor’s book A Secular Age, secular humanist Andrew Koppelman said a few years back: [M]odern secularism is a religious worldview, with its own narrative […]
The Problem with Christians
What is wrong with Christians, anyway? I was minding my own business, perhaps only marginally paying attention, when the professor in my undergraduate Philosophy or Religion class decided to pair […]
Fear, Power and Religion
For those of us investigating Christianity, let’s us keep in mind Jesus is not offering mere religion. He criticizes and deconstructs it, and offers an alternative radically different.
Liberating Freedom
Hey, gotta’ solution: why choose? To anyone surveying our current cultural scene, and its splintered breadth of options political, artistic, religious and social, an easy attitude rises from the pack: […]
If God Does Not Exist
I live in Spain, where one in every three people between 18 and 29 years old don’t believe in the existence of God. Many other countries share a similar statistic. […]
Wondering Fair 