SuperLutheran and Myles from The Godcast recently took a shot at my dis-ontological argument. Their criticism was relatively snarky and obnoxiously nit-picky (at one point, they corrected a date that…
FINALLY! Editing has been a long slog, but Holy Nihilism is now out, in eBook format as well as paperback. As I say in the introduction, my purpose in writing this is…
I am getting a little tired of all of these "Christian nationalists" who think that their religion justifies nationalism and the violence necessary to defend their nations. The sentiment is…
I recently submitted a question to TalkToAPastor.com, in order to test the dis-ontological argument against Christianity: I've struggled with theology since High School. I was trying to be a Christian…
Vox Day has been arguing against Free Speech for a few months now, and laid out what he believes to be a knock-down argument against it tonight in one of…
I've made two videos now attempting to lay out this argument. While the audio quality of the first one is not ideal, I think it is the better video in…
As a lover of arguments, there are few things more irritating than the kinds of arguments which shut down the conversation. Ad hominems are probably the most familiar variety of this…
In part 1, I covered the essential mindset for thinking and arguing philosophically -- and hopefully, by extension, more effectively and productively. But although charity, fallibility, and truth-seeking are necessary,…
Productive debate is a skill which can be learned and practiced. In a philosophy class I took a while back, we were presented with a "code of intellectual conduct," but…
The irrepressible Justicar recently exposed a fraudulent study published in the Journal of American Medical Associates linking Australia's 1996 gun-restriction legislation to decreases in mass shootings, in which "mass shootings"…