… give or take
// A very common argument of many religious people is that a secular, humanist or materialist worldview leads inevitably to moral relativism. Since, on this way of thinking (they argue), there is nothing inherently special or unique about human beings—we are just bags of water and proteins who happen to have evolved some tendency toward [...]
// A very common argument of many religious people is that a secular, humanist or materialist worldview leads inevitably to moral relativism. I will deal with the fact that secular reason can, in fact, produce moral absolutes in another post. For now, I will take the religious’ assertion and turn it on its ear: religion, in [...]
// Image from a new infrared telescope. Beat that, “Lord of the Israelites.” More in Wired magazine.
// The fundamental source of modern religious freedom is, ironically enough, secularism. From history we know that social and political ideas of religious pluralism or the idea that the state should not interfere in religious practice arose in Europe because of the crippling effect of religious wars, as well as secular rulers’ desire to consolidate [...]
// Many religious people like to claim that a development for the appreciation of human rights, civil rights, and the like originated from religion. They point to this passage in the Bible, or that page of the Quran, or the leadership of various religious figures from Bartolome de las Casas to Martin Luther King Jr, [...]
