Atheist Ethicist

Continuing the theme on when it is and is not appropriate to condemn moderates, one of the situations in which moderates can be condemned is...

The Episcopalian Church, it seems, is suffering from some dissention in its ranks . Some rank-and-file members cannot accept the fact that s...

A co-worker came to me last week and said that he saw Dennis Miller on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The subject of global warming came up...

From the pages of Brent Rasmussen’s Screwing the Inscrutable , we get the story of an army battalion commander Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich com...

I have a question from the studio audience. Beepbeepitsme asked, “What do you think about morality/ethics as a result of natural selection...

On Monday I wrote a post called " Survival vs. Property " about how the moral permissibility of breaking into a cabin and obtainin...

I will confess that I delayed publishing this blog entry because I am not very comfortable with it. I have been made aware of some cases w...

What society loses when it discards Judeo-Christian faith and belief in God is something far more difficult to replace: the value system mo...

“Why should I, who for purposes of this question hate everyone, wish to fulfill the desires of others?” Craig Ewert asked this question in...

Ethical discussions often use hypothetical (and often entirely unreasonable) cases to illustrate moral points. Sometimes, it is useful to de...

First, kill all of the teachers. This adaptation to Shakespeare is the policy of the resurgent Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan. The...