Atheist Ethicist

A member of the studio audience has asked me to address the subject of torture. I was wondering what your thoughts about Sam Harris'...

Yesterday I started a brief comparison of Daniel Fincke's naturalistic moral realism to my own. (For Fincke's account of value, se...

I am back from a week off with my wife celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. I have a new project I am anxious to start - that I will ...

It is time to wrap up the secularism project. I started this project after listening to a few attacks on secularism. I defined secularis...

This month, I have been offering a defense of secularism. Specifically, I have been arguing for a form of secularism that strictly prohib...

Imagine living in a society where virtually all county courthouses have a statue of Jesus on the cross somewhere about. In many places, it i...

I have been defending a hard-line form of secularism this month - one that completely condemns the use of religious arguments in defense of ...

Secularism is not about belief in God. Secularism was invented by people who believe in God . They invented secularism to end centuries ...

Secularism is compatible with those religious and non-religious views that are compatible with secularism and incompatible with those that a...

The way some theists talk about the relationship between atheism and value, and atheist can put his bare hand in a bed of hot coals and care...

For the past couple of weeks I have been defending secularism - defined as a the view that religious claims are illegitimate in the discussi...

The task that I adopted for April is the defense of secularism. I have defined secularism as a prohibition on religious arguments in matte...

In my defense of secularism so far - the proposition that religious reasons ought not to be used in making policy decisions - I have used ar...

The HBO Series ROME has a scene in which Julius Caesar makes it clear that he is considering providing the priest with a very large cash co...

My current project is a defense of secularism. The defense I offer is not that of the incoherent ideology that the public square must be f...