Pascal’s Wager Is Silly

I’ve heard it said that at that last moment before death, why not accept God? What have you got to lose? Is intellectual integrity threatened by a deathbed conversion? I wound answer: no. Supernatural claims are unfounded, and what a person thinks seconds before death does not matter, at least assuming my naturalistic viewpoint. But…

Beware the Post-Modernist!

I disagree on the most fundamental aspects of philosophy with nearly all those who are religious. I do not see virtue in faith, and while I can love and respect my fellow man who does not appreciate skeptical values, I can also tell him that I think he is wrong. There is no arrogance in…

Everyone should stop being so easily offended, except for me of course.

We are at a point in time where many are saying that everyone should stop being so easily offended, yet these people are quite easy to affront. They wave the confederate flag, screaming it’s a symbol of heritage, and that we shouldn’t be offended by it, but say one thing about their Jesus and they…

Thoughts on the Problem of Evil

It amazes me that people who live in a world filled with child abuse can believe in God. How can the omnibenevolent be reconciled with this? Perhaps it is because we live in such a world that some people need faith in order to deal with these awful facts. As for me, the idea of an all powerful being…

An Aphorism

I honestly love being offended. It makes me think. -AD

Are all the religions true? Nope!

If all religions are a different road to the same god, then why do most religions ask you to kill anyone who wishes to take the other road? Believing in all religion is nonsense. You cannot say all the religions are right, when they all say every other religion is wrong. -AD

Cartesian Dualism

The 17th century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes was a dualist rather than a monist. He argued that there are two fundamental principles that compose our world as opposed to just one. In the monist’s view there is only the physical, but in the dualist’s view there is the physical and also the non-physical.…

Sins of Omission

If we count sins of omission, this means there is no such thing as a good person. -AD

Pascal’s Wager

Pascal’s Wager Pascal proposes that there are two decisions to make; to believe in God, or to not believe in God. If you don’t believe then you are risking damnation, but if you do believe, you have a chance of going to heaven. On the surface the best conclusion is quite obvious. Choose to believe,…

Aquinas’ Second Argument

St. Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic priest ordained a saint and held today as one of the developers of modern philosophy, argued that sequential logic proves the existence of God. His argument, sometimes referred to the Cosmological Argument, is an argument based on the principles of causality. If events occur in the natural world, and all…