Tag: Atheism

  • The Winter of Our Testament

    One of my favorite things about winter is probably its least popular element: the dark cold days where the world just seems frozen in time. You can see abandoned birds’ nests in the trees while the dead unraked leaves poke out through the snow. On a weekend it’s quiet; it’s too cold to really have […]

  • Indiana Jones and the Extraordinary Proof

    The common atheist refrain simply goes: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” It’s a way of pointing out that if you are going to make a grandiose claim (like that God exists) you are going to need an equally grandiose reason (e.g. the Kalam Cosmological Argument) to think so. This is hardly a bad principle; requiring […]

  • Much Ado about Hokum

    “… and then we can talk all you want about this…hokum.”   I was taken aback for a moment, unsure how to respond. I often struggle to find a way to describe my opinions and thoughts to those that I disagree with, be they theists or conspiracy theorists, in a way that communicates why I don’t […]

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