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Why does the Catholic Church continue to protect its abusers?

February 26, 2013 by Randal

The 2006 documentary “Deliver Us from Evil” tells the horrifying story of convicted pedophile (and, in my non-professional assessment, clinical psychopath)  Oliver O’Grady. Father O’Grady was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church who was shuttled around various dioceses in California for decades, groping and raping children along the way. His victims are in the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Catholic Church, Deliver us from Evil, Oliver O'Grady, psychopathy, rape, Roger Mahony

On William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide (Part 2)

February 9, 2013 by Randal

In my first installment in this series I argued that conservative Christian apologists like William Lane Craig and Paul Copan are at their weakest when they argue that God commanded putative moral atrocities like genocide. And I noted that the interlocutor for my critical discussion would be William Lane Craig’s defense of the Canaanite genocide in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, ethics, genocide, moral atrocity, moral perception, Old Testament, rape, William Lane Craig

How societies improve: the simple example of Morocco

January 23, 2013 by Randal

In “Why do conservative Christians think everything is getting worse?” I argued that the widespread conservative belief that society is, on the whole, becoming less just and compassionate is not borne out by the facts. This doesn’t entail that things are getting better overall, though in many cases they are. Nor does it entail that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: fatalism, moral progress, Morocco, rape, sanctification

Is rape worse than sacrifice?

August 18, 2012 by Randal

Like other people, Christians react with horror at the idea of a divinely commanded rape. “God would never command rape!” they insist. So you might expect that they would be equally incredulous to the prospect of God commanding the killing and mutilation of a child as a sacrifice. But no. On this point many believe […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, genocide, rape, sacrifice

Rape, moral perception, and biblicism

August 14, 2012 by Randal

Jerry Shepherd offered an extended rebuttal to my article “Christian moral schizophrenia and psychopathy.” Reading through his comments I recognized that a single question could help us focus the issue of debate significantly and so I focused on the moral status of acts of rape:  “It seems quite clear that on your view it is […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblicism, Jerry Shepherd, moral epistemology, rape

Does God ‘rape the will’ to save people from hell?

June 6, 2011 by Randal

“Irresistible force used by God on his free creatures would be a violation of both the charity of God and the dignity of humans. God is love. True love never forces itself on anyone. Forced love is rape, and God is not a divine rapist!” (Norman Geisler, “God knows all Things,” Predestination and Free Will, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: foreknowledge, free will, God, hell, Norman Geisler, predestination, providence, rape

An update in the wake of Atlanta (plus a bit on rape and child killing)

November 23, 2010 by Randal

Well I’m back (as if anybody cares). Wait a minute. I care, so I’ll keep talking to myself if nobody else. It was a good time at the annual ETS conference (with a day at SBL thrown in). Let me say the weather was fine. It has been seven or eight years since I was in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, ETS, genocide, herem, Matthew Flannagan, murder, Paul Copan, rape, Richard Hess, SBL

On being skeptical of the skeptics

November 7, 2010 by Randal

In “Surely you can’t be serious” I wrote that “The evil of the cannibal seeking to eat Jim is, to put it bluntly, a metaphysically necessary truth.” Brenda responded: “Well, that is a claim. One you have not proved must be true. I don’t see how you can ‘prove’ that cannibalism is necessarily wrong the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, moral objectivism, morality, rape, Rwanda, synthetic a priori

Rape as objectively evil

October 31, 2010 by Randal

In my last post I stated that rape is objectively evil and any worldview that cannot count for this fact suffers accordingly. Alexander responded with a refreshing dose of dramatic bravado: “Not so, Randal Rauser! According to Randy Thornhill, rape is actually an evolution of a ‘genetically advantageous behavioral adaptation’ and, in that context, not inherently evil.” This […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, genocide, morality, rape, Romeo Dallaire, Rwanda, Sam Harris

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