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@Corso: I am perfectly able to define fascism, thanks. I just don't particularly feel the need to explain my definition…
Guys.... It wasn't a sub point. It was the first thing I said, and my entire thesis: How you define…
@Dianne: This is how it always is with Corso. He moves goalposts, twists words, makes leaps of inference and then…
Wow. That’s a projection worthy of the Trump administration. I'm sorry, but no. You still haven't committed to a definition.…
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Category Archives: Atheism
Two Toms Talking Theology
This comic was drawn by R.E. Ryan, who did a great job rendering my silly version of Colonial America. In 2023, Senator Josh Hawley posted this quote, attributing it to Founding Father Patrick Henry: It cannot be emphasized too strongly … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Cartooning & comics, Religion
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Radical Gender Ideology
This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. In a way, it’s also by Samantha Fulnecky, because a lot of the dialog was swiped verbatim from a paper she wrote. But I don’t think she’d appreciate a co-writing credit. “Radical … Continue reading
Beware God’s Sock Puppets
This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. From the Bible (2 Kings 2, specifically): He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Cartooning & comics, Religion
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Cartoon: God Bless
This cartoon is drawn by Nadine Scholtes, who also made up the cat and mouse business on the counter. This one is a little autobiographical. Not that I’d ever react this strongly in real life, but when someone tells me … Continue reading
What Stephen Fry Would Say To God
Transcript: Gay Byrne: Suppose it’s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God. What will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it? Stephen Fry: I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism
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Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Unconstitutional?
Sasha Volokh brings up the question with a quote from Justice Stevens’ concurrence in City of Boerne v. Flores. ((I say “from,” but technically, the quote isn’t “from” Stevens’ concurrence – it is his entire concurrence.)) In my opinion, the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-atheism, Atheism, Supreme Court Issues
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Atheists Don’t Believe In Objective Morality. Deal With It.
Over at Popehat, Clark argues that “modern atheists have an incoherent world view.” After a great deal of back-and-forth in comments, Clark clarified his argument: My thesis is this, and this alone: Most atheists are, or act as if they … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism
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So What Is The Church For?
Stephen Fry: The Church is very loose on moral evils, because, although they try to accuse people like me, who believe in empiricism and the Enlightenment, of what they call ‘moral relativism,’ as if it’s some appalling sin, where what … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism
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If there is no Objective Moral Truth, how do you know that it’s bad to be unkind or unjust?
As I understand it, an “objective moral truth” would be a morality that exists outside the human mind. In this view, a moral statement like “theft is wrong” has a truth independent of human belief, like “the moon orbits the … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Civility & norms of discourse
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On atheism
On Saturday the 17th February 2001, I realised I had no faith in women’s magazines or God. I was at the hospital – I wasn’t sick – I was visiting my best friend (she’ll be known as Betsy for the … Continue reading
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If it's not fascism, it's certainly sparkling authoritarianism made to taste like fascism. But some people seem determined to be…