Tag Archives: Ethics

Books in Review: The Truth of the Soul of the Modern World

Dual Book Review The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart     One of the New Atheists’ more childish conceits is that of secularism’s moral superiority over all that has come …

September 20, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Religions, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

To Be a Non-Person

Can you identify the context of this passage? To have a persona [to be a person] was to have a face before the law—which is to say, to be recognized as one possessing rights and privileges before a court, or as being able to give testimony upon the strength of one’s own word, or simply …

September 13, 2011 – 8:47 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged | Comments (4)

And a little child shall lead them?

On a New Jersey school district’s summer reading list for middle and high school: one book depicting lesbian statutory rape, and another depicting a drug-fueled homosexual orgy. How did that happen? Call it the record-setting worst excuse ever for a bad policy! Chuck Earling, superintendent of Monroe Township Schools in Williamstown, N.J., told Fox News …

September 6, 2011 – 7:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Riots in England: Spiritual Collapse and a Prediction Tragically Fulfilled

Thirty-two years ago Josh McDowell addressed students at Campus Crusade for Christ’s Institute for Biblical Studies with a sobering message. Obviously humans have been inflicting violence on one another for as long as we’ve been around, but Josh had a prediction to add to that shared knowledge: that the nature of that violence was about …

August 15, 2011 – 12:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

“Cerebration » Blog Archive » Crises in Somalia and Kenya”

“The United Nations estimates it will take $1.4 billion to save the lives of some 12 million people across the horn of Africa in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. The emergency is expected to persist for at least three to four months, possibly peaking in August and September.” [From Cerebration » Blog Archive » Crises …

August 15, 2011 – 9:12 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics | Tagged | Comments Off

Jerry Coyne: Either Culpable Ignorance, Or Else … ?

Update again, 10/20/11: I bid a hearty welcome to visitors from Dr. Coyne’s website. (I appreciate the link, Dr. Coyne.) He seems to have a policy of not allowing my comments to remain on his site, except for those that he can twist to suit his own purposes, as I have indicated in my earlier …

August 4, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (134)

But Corrective Punishment Makes Perfect Sense, Right?

I was listening to Reasonable Doubts on the way to work this morning. Reasonable Doubts is a strictly atheistic blog with an associated weekly podcast it, and this episode was to have Tom Clark, of the Center for Naturalism, as a special guest. Tom and I have our strong disagreements, yet I would regard him …

July 13, 2009 – 11:52 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (107)

Tom Clark, Empiricism, and Ethics, Part Two

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Tom Clark and Naturalism

I’m certainly more than overdue to respond to Tom Clark here, and now finally there is opportunity to do so. It has been so long since the last post on this topic, and this answer will run so long, that I’m publishing it as a new blog post. First, I want to state my agreement …

April 17, 2009 – 4:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (41)

An Open Letter to the Atheist Ethicist

An open letter to Alonze Fyfe, “The Atheist Ethicist.” CC: Any atheistic, agnostic, or skeptical reader with an interest in ethics Greetings, Alonzo, You have remained strangely silent on the matter of reading opposing views, after I have asked you several times (starting here; also here and here) whether that is something you have made …

April 10, 2009 – 5:57 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged | Comments (207)