Bethyada from True Paradigm writes: I have read a few posts on the ‘one less god’ proposition. Stephen F Roberts originally put it, “I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pluralism'
Guest Post: One Less God
May 18th, 2011 92 Comments
Tags: Bethyada · Douglas Wilson · Guest Post · One Less God · Pluralism · Sam Harris · Stephen Roberts
Oprah Winfrey, Religious Pluralism and Woolly Thinking
December 24th, 2010 19 Comments
I once caught 5 minutes of Oprah discussing religion. She made the comment, in a very sage-sounding tone, that she believed all religions are true. The audience immediately interrupted her with resounding applause; camera shots caught audience members nodding in approval, clearly impressed with the wisdom of the claim just made. This commonly heard platitude [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Oprah Winfrey · Pluralism
Contra Mundum: Pluralism and Being Right
November 5th, 2010 7 Comments
Recently I attended a lecture on science and religion at the University of Auckland. As is normal after such talks students stayed and discussed issues raised by the presentation. One student brought up a fairly common chestnut, he objected to the claim made by some Christians that their religion was true and that other religions [...]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · Pluralism
Video of Matthew Flannagan on Apologetics: Answering Objections to the Christian Faith
May 28th, 2009 6 Comments
Matt spoke at the Thinking Matters Auckland Launch on 8 March 2009 on Apologetics: Answering Objections to the Christian Faith. If you missed it or wish to see it again or if you have been thinking about attending a Thinking Matters seminar or booking Matt as a speaker and you are not sure if he [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Faith and Reason · MandM on Video · Pluralism · Problem of Evil · Thinking Matters
Does Pluralism Make Faith Arbitrary?
October 20th, 2008 2 Comments
Recently I have been reading Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. (This is not like me because I don’t typically read popular apologetics books, and it is even more rare that I would lead a blog entry with one.) One thing that interested me is that when Keller [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Faith and Reason · Pluralism · Timothy Keller · William Alston
The Body Snatchers and the Problem of Pluralism
December 14th, 2007 1 Comment
As I was driving around Auckland this morning talkback was rife with people discussing the recent body snatchers case; an estranged father, against the wishes of both the deceased and her next of kin stole his daughters body and buried it in a family plot. Of course I remember the furor over the previous case, [...]
Tags: John Rawls · Philosophy of Religion · Pluralism · Race Relations · Religion in Public Life
