Atheist ethicists: not as ethical as you might think
Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 under polemics • 4 comments • read it ⇒Some thoughts in response to a desire utilitarian’s defense of abortion.
Why don’t religious people mind their own business?
Posted on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 under polemics • no comments • read it ⇒Why do Christians “stick their noses in” about women getting abortions? Isn’t it nobody’s business but the woman’s?
6 very strange reasons to send your child to school
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 under polemics • 10 comments • read it ⇒Six exceedingly odd and equally common arguments for sending your child to a public school (instead of homeschooling). Refuted, obviously.
4 reasons the consent argument for abortion is sociopathic
Posted on Saturday, December 1, 2012 under polemics • 8 comments • read it ⇒The consent argument is the most popular and vigorously-defended way for pro-abortionists to show that abortion is ethically justified—and that the abolitionist position is unreasonable. But what if their argument trades on hidden ethical concessions that, in any other situation, we’d think were psychopathic?
Is celebrating Thanksgiving irrational?
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2012 under polemics • no comments • read it ⇒Are most Americans helping themselves to a double-sized portion of cognitive dissonance along with their Turkey and cranberry sauce?
Rome: “Catholics adore the one God, Allah”
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2011 under polemics and proofs • 5 comments • read it ⇒A quick little argument showing how, on Rome’s own terms, Catholics believe that God’s secret identity is Allah.
Does God hate the sin but love the sinner?
Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2011 under polemics • 2 comments • read it ⇒A response to Stuart’s assertion that God’s wrath and hatred is exclusively reserved for sins, rather than sinners.