In this three-part series I will look at some different ways of adjudicating conflicts between apparent divine commands and moral beliefs starting with Immanuel Kant. In “Commonsense Atheism and the Canaanite Massacre” I addressed a question put to me by Luke from Commonsense Atheism, “If Matt did think these events happened literally as described in the […]
Entries from October 13th, 2010
God, Morality and Abhorrent Commands: Part I Kant
October 13th, 2010 185 Comments
Tags: Canaanites · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Kant · Luke Muehlhauser · Old Testament Ethics · Philip Quinn · Religious History · Robert Adams
Podcasts on Christian Physicalism and The Probability of Christianity
October 10th, 2010 9 Comments
Matt and I have been listening to podcasts in the evening lately. These two, featuring two of our friends, who are both philosophers and bloggers, are really worth a listen. Glenn on Physicalism Glenn Peoples, of Say Hello to my Little Friend: The Beretta Blog and Podcast, recently spoke at the University of Oxford at the annual conference […]
Tags: Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot · Fine-Tuning · Glenn Peoples · John Haldane · Luke Muehlhauser · Lydia McGrew · Physicalism · Probability of the Resurrection · Unbelievable?
And the Winners of the Best Biblical Blog Post are…
October 8th, 2010 10 Comments
The winner of the best blog post from a biblical blogger has been announced and it is a clean-sweep for the kiwis (even the nominees were all kiwis!): First Place: Contra Mundum: The Flat-Earth Myth – by Matthew Flannagan Nominated by (in order of nominations received): Madeleine Flannagan Phil Middlemiss Ropata Second Place: John Milbank’s Atavistic […]
Tags: Blogging Contests · Eisenbrauns
What Atheists Could Learn from Legal Interpretation 101
October 7th, 2010 117 Comments
At the beginning of each semester my lecturers would remind students of the fire policy, “if the alarm sounds leave the lecture theatre immediately through the nearest exit and reassemble outside the Davis law library.” Now if during class one day my lecturer had said to me, “Madeleine, do not leave class today until you […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Hermeneutics · John Loftus · Michael Martin · Old Testament Ethics · Rape · Stephen Carr
September Biblioblog Rankings
October 4th, 2010 21 Comments
The September Biblioblog rankings are out: Rank Blogger Blog Name Alexa 1 Jim West Zwinglius Redivivus 67215 2 John Loftus Debunking Christianity 124171 3 Joel L. Watts Church of Jesus Christ, The 128485 4 Matthew and Madeleine MandM 149517 5 Scott Bailey Scotteriology 173966 6 James McGrath Exploring Our Matrix 202192 7 Todd Bolen Bible […]
Tags: Biblioblog · Blog Rankings
Contra Mundum: Abraham and Isaac and the Killing of Innocents
October 3rd, 2010 124 Comments
Since 9/11 a choir of commentators have claimed that the willingness to murder innocent people in the name of God stems from the progenator of the Abrahamic faiths. Abraham, the father of Christianity, Judaism and Islam is commended for attempting to kill his own son. The account of this episode is arguable the most infamous […]
Tags: Abraham · Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · Isaac · John Hare · Killing Innocents
Auckland Bloggers Drinks – Thursday 7 October
October 2nd, 2010 2 Comments
On the first Thursday of every month bloggers gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). The B3, as it was coined by regulars, is open to anyone who happens to be in Auckland who writes for, comments on or reads blogs so come along! What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 7 October from 6.30pm Where: […]
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Events · Galbraiths
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
