Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2009
It’s tough being a religion teacher these days, what with the kids and their “hard-headed empiricism” and schooling in “scientific methods.” And when you try and teach them about “the intangible,” why, they think it’s all “fortune-telling and ghosts,” just like they see on the television and the internets! That’s why you can’t just assume [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
For reasons I’m not quite clear on, the New York Times has dragged up the Ontological Argument, one of the stupider reasons for believing in a god. Conveniently, they’ve summed it up in drawing form, which I’ve fair-used below: Although there are various counter-arguments, like “existence is not a predicate” and “by the same logic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2009
Roger Ebert is one of my favorite essayists. I don’t tend to agree with him on which movies are good (mostly because I only like movies if they are about wizards or vampires or both), but I tend to find his musings interesting. Unfortunately, this week his essay demonstrates a pretty fundamental confusion about atheism: [...]
