Materialism is the spirit of the age, and we must understand its implications. First, though, we should understand the word. It’s important not to blow past the meanings of words, as if we’re all on the same page because we speak the same language. It turns out that too often, we think we speak the same […]
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Can a Materialist Tell the Truth?
Draw a box. Inside the box, write “all the words in this box are false.” Is the statement true, or false? Now with that conundrum in mind, let’s proceed. We expect someone to tell the truth because we generally expect (unless shown otherwise) that the person shares belief in the ethical or moral principle of […]
Read more...Review: Living the Secular Life, by Phil Zuckerman
This book is intended as a guidebook to living without religion. It does that by using anecdotal illustrations for secularist beliefs, and sprinkling in various institutional helps for how one might live as an avowed atheist. Along the way, it unintentionally reveals the utter bankruptcy of the secularist point of view. Zuckerman writes for materialists […]
Read more...Review: Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel Dennett
This book is tedious. It’s tedious if you’re a theist who has considered the point of view that religion is only an evolutionary phenomenon. It’s probably even more tedious if you’re an atheist who has already concluded that religion is a “spell” that needs to be broken. Dennett undertakes to analyze religion from a scientistic […]
Read more...Review: The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is certainly incendiary, and it’s not just because he makes free use of acerbic anti-Christian language. It’s also because he would advocate prior restraint on free speech (chapter 1); considers religious teaching to children to be child abuse (chapter 9); and lays violence at the feet of religion while excusing the bridle-high materialist […]
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