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Morality Sans God—Introducing Pactualism: A New Ethical Framework (Part 3/3) 1 Sep 2012 | 04:00 am
Without God, morality doesn’t exist. And it doesn’t need to. Have you ever had someone try to convince you that you ought to do something? Having failed to convince you, do they resort, in exasperatio...
Morality Sans God—Toward a Solution (Part 2/3) 28 Aug 2012 | 07:34 am
As noted in Part 1, the atheist is not entitled to make an assertion of moral rightness/wrongness and have it understood in the traditional sense: a proclamation of universal, objective truth with reg...
Philosophy—A Waste of Time? 21 May 2012 | 01:38 pm
A lot of smart people claim that philosophy is a waste of time. Stephen Hawking claims that philosophy is dead. And no doubt there are obscure highly abstract corners of the world of philosophy tha...
Philosophy—A Waste of Time? 21 May 2012 | 06:38 am
A lot of smart people claim that philosophy is a waste of time. Stephen Hawking claims that philosophy is dead. And no doubt there are obscure highly abstract corners of the world of philosophy tha...
Morality Sans God—The Problem (Part 1/2) 22 Apr 2012 | 09:49 am
You can be an atheist and you can be a sadomasochist. You can be an atheist and a psychopath. You can be an atheist and be fascist. To be a communist, you practically have to be an atheist. It doe...
Morality Sans God—The Problem (Part 1/3) 22 Apr 2012 | 02:49 am
You can be an atheist and you can be a sadomasochist. You can be an atheist and a psychopath. You can be an atheist and be fascist. To be a communist, you practically have to be an atheist. It doe...
Listen, you silly atheists and theists… 13 Feb 2012 | 09:27 pm
…you really need to cut out the asinine bickering. Neither of you are getting anywhere. Take a look at this.
Listen, you silly atheists and theists… 13 Feb 2012 | 12:27 pm
…you really need to cut out the asinine bickering. Neither of you are getting anywhere. Take a look at this.  
Atheism and Curiosity 23 Jan 2012 | 11:26 am
Extraterrestrial Life Life on other planets—does it exist? We want to know. Why? Perhaps we suspect that life on this planet is ultimately doomed and so we hope that the opportunity for life exist...
Atheism and Curiosity 23 Jan 2012 | 02:26 am
Extraterrestrial Life Life on other planets—does it exist? We want to know. Why? Perhaps we suspect that life on this planet is ultimately doomed and so we hope that the opportunity for life exists...
