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Tag: reason

  • Atheism must be about more than just not believing in god – really?

    Atheism must be about more than just not believing in god – really?

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    Joop Beris
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    Today in my Twitter feed, there appeared an article from Dr. Patrick O’Connor, entitled “Atheism must be about more than just not believing in god“. In the article, Dr. O’Connor argues that atheism should turn away from humanistic values and look instead to non-humanistic philosophy like that of Sartre or Nietzsche or risk losing its…

  • The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind

    The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind

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    Joop Beris
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    Last night, I wrote a post about my discussion with someone who considers all abortion is equal to murder. In that article, I included a tweet from Richard Dawkins, who said that an embryo is at the very least less sentient than any adult mammal. Since mr. Dawkins is a world-renowned biologist, I think his…

  • The difference between atheism and faith

    The difference between atheism and faith

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    I had a discussion today on Google+ (yes, there are people using it) about the existence of hell and why atheists would choose to go there. Apparently the argument “I don’t believe in hell” didn’t go down too well because the response was along the lines of “You don’t believe in hell because you don’t…

  • Reason

    Reason

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    Joop Beris
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    To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. – Thomas Paine