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God’s Funeral

When philosophy meets cheap religion

Is the Concept of God Miraculous?

Is the Concept of God Miraculous?

And could that idea have come only from God?
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Benjamin Cain
Feb 6
Why God Can’t Help Us with Moral Choices

Why God Can’t Help Us with Moral Choices

The fallacies of the theistic argument from morality
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Benjamin Cain
Feb 3
Did God Design Consciousness to Work in Nature?

Did God Design Consciousness to Work in Nature?

Chance, intelligent design, and the limits of reason
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Benjamin Cain
Jan 31
Must God Exist Because Most People are Religious?

Must God Exist Because Most People are Religious?

The many fallacies of the common consent argument
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Benjamin Cain
Jan 26
How Monotheists Objectify Nature by Glorifying God

How Monotheists Objectify Nature by Glorifying God

The telltale continuum between prehistoric pantheism and civilized monotheism
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Benjamin Cain
Jan 23
Pragmatism and the New Atheist’s Irrelevant Victory

Pragmatism and the New Atheist’s Irrelevant Victory

Religions’ social utility, and where religions still go wrong
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Benjamin Cain
Jan 17
The Downsides of American and Chinese Atheism

The Downsides of American and Chinese Atheism

Liberalism, collectivism, and the dream of an existentially honourable society
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Jan 16
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Why Would a Loving God have Created the Dinosaurs?

Why Would a Loving God have Created the Dinosaurs?

Pitting maudlin theology against the cosmic horror of deep time
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Jan 10
How Flying in Airplanes Makes Nonsense of Religion

How Flying in Airplanes Makes Nonsense of Religion

And how religion’s commonness casts doubt on our hubristic secular self-images
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Benjamin Cain
Jan 5
How All Theological Statements Might be Subliminal

How All Theological Statements Might be Subliminal

Making sense of religion’s social power despite the apparent emptiness of religious language
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Benjamin Cain
Jan 2
Is the Catholic’s God a Politician?

Is the Catholic’s God a Politician?

Catholic centrism and the ideals of Jewish monotheism
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Benjamin Cain
Dec 30, 2022
How Modernity Alienates Us from Nature and from Ourselves

How Modernity Alienates Us from Nature and from Ourselves

Individualism and the downside of secular progress
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Benjamin Cain
Dec 26, 2022
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