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Golden Rule

Overcome your Cognitive Bias with the 50/50 Rule

June 28, 2018 by Randal

In the past, I have often lamented the way that people exhibit cognitive biases in their critical engagement with opposing views. I have especially noted how Christian apologists are prone to do this (as in this critique of Andy Bannister and this critique of Paul Copan). But this isn’t just about Christians: non-Christians do it as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cognitive bias, Golden Rule

If atheists are offended by a theodicy, does that give them a right to be rude?

May 30, 2016 by Randal

In my interview “God and the Problem of Suffering: An Interview with Paul Buller” Paul provides a brief summary of his theodicy according to which God allows at least some evil as a means by which moral agents can acquire moral virtue. The article prompted a long comment from The Atheist Missionary (TAM) which concluded […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, debate, discourse, Golden Rule, public square, theodicy

On helping the poor

April 3, 2016 by Randal

I almost retweeted this dig at Joel Osteen. Then I remembered all the things I haven’t sold to feed the poor.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, Golden Rule

Is the Golden Rule now a luxury we can ill afford?

October 4, 2015 by Randal

Some time ago Catholic apologist Matt Fradd posted an exchange we had discussing God’s not Dead in which I offered some serious criticisms of the film. A reader recently posted a comment in response to the article which included the following passage: “I disagree [with Randal] that we should have a ‘sympathetic and a generous portrait […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: "God's not Dead", atheism, dialogue, Golden Rule

Things Christians say to explain away biblical moral atrocities

June 21, 2012 by Randal

First off, what’s a moral atrocity? It is the kind of event perpetrated by moral agents such that, if you read about it in the newspaper, you’d naturally exclaim “That’s a moral atrocity!” And by saying that you’d be meaning (among other things) that the event in question is an egregious moral evil which could not plausibly […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical ethics, Golden Rule, moral evil, morality, Old Testament, problem of evil

Does the Golden Rule apply in geopolitics?

May 5, 2011 by Randal

Do you really think the only way to bring about the peace is to sacrifice your children and kill all your enemies? (Larry Norman, “The Great American Novel“, 1972)  In “American-based terrorism, or, Why I think I’d like to be a Quaker” I pointed out one terrorist that the United States had harbored for years. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: American exceptionalism, assassination, George W Bush, Golden Rule, Noam Chomsky, War in Iraq

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