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Jaws and the Meaning of Life
Stream: What the Atheist Claim of the Meaninglessness of Life Would Mean (If it were True) Links fixed! There is a scene early on in the killer-shark movie Jaws which…
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Atheists Will Have No Excuse
There is a class of the argument of God's existence that depend entirely on your thoughts. The one that interests us is Joseph de Maistre's "no excuse" argument. It is…
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Atheists Can’t Trust Reason — Or Anything
I saw on Twitter another version of the old you-can't-trust-reason-without-God argument, under the title "On the futility of attempting rational discourse with atheists." It went like this. 1. Anyone who…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
The Theory of Diversity Explained
Thanks to Google we are reminded that Diversity is the dumbest idea in the West, bar none. Even communism, even atheism, makes more sense. Diversity is our weakness. Diversity, based…
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The Coming Metaphysic
Etienne Gilson's The Unity of Philosophical Experience was recommended to me by Fr Rickert (whom regular readers will recognize) and I in turn recommend it to you. The book was…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Differences In Being and What Is In Intellectual Substances
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Back to…
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Ridley Claims Materialists, Atheists, & Secular Humanists Don’t Preach
Matt Ridley has a curious piece in The Times (no, the better one), "Why Muslims are turning away from Islam". (Incidentally, Ridley and I both have chapters in the new…
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The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)
Many atheists are notorious for arguing from desire. (Be ever careful of the So's-Yer-Old-Man Fallacy.) God doesn't exist, they say or imply, because He's a big meanie, because His demands…
