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Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe..
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be repres….
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any….
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred ….
I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by the psychol….
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation..
Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has be….
When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired ….
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. T….
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life..
One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both..
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is no wrong way to b….
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. An….
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should b….
Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate th….
I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of fait….
The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he i….
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrific….
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influe….
It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful….
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticis….