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pragmatism

Religion provides the motivation to destroy the world. So let’s get rid of religion!

September 4, 2014 by Randal

Victor Stenger wrote: “Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings.” After I quoted this epigram in “Victor Stenger, religion and violence“, a reader named Just sayin… provided a tongue-in-cheek (as I interpret it) counter-epigram: “Science provides the means to destroy civilization in an afternoon.” Another reader, “The Thinker,” replied by quipping: […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, epigram, pragmatism, religion, secularism

“Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 5)

July 20, 2014 by Randal

This is the fifth installment of my meandering review of John Loftus’ book Why I Became an Atheist. For part four click here. In this section I’m going to move on through chapter 2 which, as I noted, is concerned with various topics relating to faith and reason. * * * Anybody who has read […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, epistemology, John Loftus, pragmatism, review, The Will to Believe, Why I became an Atheist, William James

Pragmatists, Prophets, and Punitive Appendage Amputation

January 1, 2013 by Randal

In my review of William Webb’s Corporal Punishment in the Bible  I argued that Webb does not go far enough in his redemptive-movement hermeneutic. In this followup article I will develop that criticism further. I will begin by providing an illustration that illumines the tension between the pragmatist and the prophet before I turn to focus […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, corporal punishment, ethics, hermeneutics, pragmatism, relativism, William Webb

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