In, my article “Tooley Plantinga and the Deontological Argument from Evil”, I argued that Tooley’s specifically deontological version of the argument from evil fails. To summarise very briefly, Tooley’s version of the argument assumes that God has moral obligations. However, according to a fairly mainstream theistic position on the relationship between God and morality, the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Hypocrisy'
“Do as I say, not as I do.” Is God a cosmic hypocrite?
October 23rd, 2014 8 Comments
Tags: God and Morality · Hypocrisy · Problem of Evil
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.
Tom Wright on Hypocrisy: Catholic Church Sex Scandals, the Media and Jimmy Savile
March 9th, 2013 7 Comments
N T Wright, theologian and research professor at St Andrews University, tells the British media a few home truths about hypocrisy and faux moral outrage. I listened in disbelief as John Humphrys interviewed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on Radio 4’s Today programme this week. Surely, he said, like a headmaster addressing an errant teenager, if highly placed people knew about […]
Tags: Hypocrisy · Jimmy Savile · N T Wright · Virtue Ethics