Children are by their nature philosophers. The philosophic spirit has to be actively stamped out of them by culture and authority figures. Socrates understood that.

I think a willingness to believe, because a prophet says so, that some should be cast into flames forever already reveals a shocking moral failing & that the churches have swindled multitudes into adopting this vice under the guise of humble receptiveness to divine revelation.

William Rowe's classic introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is a fantastic text that serves as an accessible gateway into the wonderful world of analytic philosophy of religion: ihcs.ac.ir/file/download/…

As our discourse around serious issues continues to get worse, it's time to revisit a classic dialogue between Joshua Rasmussen and Graham Oppy, which (in my view) is one of the best discussions on the so many topics related to the philosophy of religion: youtube.com/watch?v=YhqFdI…

Excellent women philosophers: Liz Jackson, Marilyn McCord Adams, Frances Howard-Snyder, Anne Jeffrey, Lara Buchak, Susan Sterrett, Diane Proudfoot, Charity Anderson, Brigitte Fallenburg, Valia Allori, Alyssa Ney, Natalja Deng, Emily Qureshi-Hunt, Susan Wolf, and many more

"this is what universalism *requires* to be true" what a spectacular failure to understand universalist arguments

Most universalist arguments draw from God's nature, not ours. But since we're talking about what we deserve: Nobody who has ever lived deserves or could possibly deserve to be tortured for eternity. That doesn't get you all the way to universalism, but it does rule out the

If I have one qualm about Paul’s encomium on love, it’s with the idea that love “believes all things”. That’s trust, not love (hence the NIV: “always trusts”), & it’s important to distinguish between love & trust. Love wants to know its object as it is, not as it wants it to be.

In what universe have evangelicals “stayed out of the culture wars” lol

Scott Barber Starting with the Moral Majority of the 1980s, much of the church has been warmongering in the culture wars.

Is there a single—I mean seriously even one—substantive argument against lab grown meat? In the last week of discourse about sweet beautiful Jeff Nippard’s tweet I have not seen a single good-faith point produced in response

I will never stop defending both theism and atheism. It doesn't matter if I become agnostic, remain atheist or convert to some flavour of theism. Both positions are intellectually rigorous and deserving of respect.

frank_morrish Read any peer reviewed literature on the matter, like this book: Kenny Pearce (theist) and Graham Oppy (atheist) wrote this together.

Apologia for Christianity is idiotic. Your love, rather, should be so great that it draws others to themselves seek out what makes such a man have such great love. "You are the light of the world," and men are drawn to light, not justifications of the light.

Ghost of the Australian Realists It was a post on believing in love, and how one can know love by its fruits. It was reviewing chapter 1 of Works of Love. I will definitely need to read this book randomnumbers.substack.com/p/love-is-like…

Reminds me of one of Emerson Green 🪬’s five part series and especially the episode ”Is theism unfalsifiable?” It actually helped me simplify my epistemic thinking/understanding and engagement on theism and atheism. open.spotify.com/episode/2c2b1O…

Dear philosophy people: I'm working on a short piece I've had in mind for a while now and would like to get your thoughts. Whether you're an atheist, and agnostic, or a theist: Do you think it's correct to say that atheism is a religion?

I’ve found that the atheists and skeptics that put “critical thinker” in their bios aren’t critical thinkers at all. My atheist friends that are critical thinkers don’t have to bring it up. They just are, and it shows in how they engage.

I really enjoyed this Majesty of Reason debate on god's existence. One thing that strikes me is that when the "theist" responds to the hiddenness argument, he has to go with universalism to diffuse it. While that helps, most theists don't want to do that! youtu.be/sXDmNJUhXOc?si…

As DBH points out, it's not the own infernalists think it is when they accuse universalists of sentimentalism, as if the sadistic model of punishment adopted by Aquinas or Calvin is somehow something we shouldn't find morally repulsive.