Co-authored by Matthew and Madeleine Flannagan The late Philosopher Richard Rorty once described religion as a “conversation stopper”, something that polarises discussion and ends or prevents fruitful dialogue. Rorty was an advocate of, “the happy, Jeffersonian compromise that the Enlightenment reached with the religious. This compromise consists in privatizing religion — keeping it out of [...]
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Contra Mundum: Separating Church and State
September 2nd, 2011 87 Comments
Tags: Contra Mundum · First Amendment · Investigate Magazine · Separation of Church and State · Separationism · Steven Smith · Thomas Jefferson · Wall of Separation
Contra Mundum: Religion and Violence
June 1st, 2011 40 Comments
On 1 May 2011 the world received the news that Osama Bin Laden was dead; gunned down in Pakistan by an elite team of US Navy Seals. Even before his death Bin Laden had become a legendary persona. Not only was he a terrorist leader responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents but he [...]
Tags: 9/11 · Alister McGrath · Christian History · Christopher Eberle · Contra Mundum · David Lindberg · Glenn Peoples · Historical Atrocities · Investigate Magazine · Jim Peron · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Osama Bin Laden · Regine Pernoud · Religion in Public Life · Religious History · Richard Wurmbrand · Ronald Numbers · Sam Harris · Terence Cuneo
Friday Fallacy: Affirming the Consequent
May 13th, 2011 1 Comment
In my last Friday Fallacy post, I looked at the fallacy of denying the antecedent. There I discussed conditional statements, statements of the form “if P then Q”. Examples would be statements such as “if it is raining then the grass will be wet” or “if the US had not shot Bin Laden then he would still [...]
Tags: Affirming the Consequent · Bin Laden · Fallacy Friday
Contra Mundum: Stoning Adulterers
May 2nd, 2011 90 Comments
Back in 2005 there was a minor furore when Labour MP Ashraf Choudhary stated he agreed with the Koran’s teaching that people who engaged in homosexual conduct or who committed adultery should be stoned to death. In the media spiral that followed, some commentators pointed out that it was not just Islam that held this [...]
Tags: Adultery · Ashraf Choudhary · Capital Punishment · Contra Mundum · Gordon Wenham · Investigate Magazine · J J Finkelstein · John Goldingay · Old Testament Ethics · Raymond Westbrook · Walter Kaiser
Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Petitio Principii (Begging the Question)
April 28th, 2011 No Comments
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • iTunes • One-Click The Mp3 of Petitio Principii (Begging the Question) is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 [...]
Tags: Apologetics 315 · Fallacy Friday Podcast · MP3 · Podcast
Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
April 22nd, 2011 No Comments
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • iTunes • One-Click The Mp3 of False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, [...]
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Friday Fallacy: Equivocation
April 16th, 2011 14 Comments
In my post on Assessing Arguments I noted that a valid argument is one where it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false. I gave the following example: Premise: All men are under 10 feet tall; Premise: John is a man; Conclusion: John is under 10 feet tall. This argument [...]
Tags: Equivocation Fallacy · Fallacy Friday · Luke Muehlhauser · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · Wes Morriston · William Wainwright
Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Division and Composition
April 13th, 2011 No Comments
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • iTunes • One-Click The Mp3 of Division and Composition is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 series use [...]
Tags: Apologetics 315 · Fallacy Friday Podcast · MP3 · Podcast
