Atheist Ethicist

Note: This is another short story; a technique that I sometimes find useful in illustrating a point. However, unlike my previous stories, I ...

"Do you think the Bush administration was right or wrong in wiretapping [conversations between U.S. citizens living in the United State...

I think that some battles should be kept out of the courts. In California, advocates of "intelligent design" are pushing a new w...

In the war on terror we have drawn a distinction between two types of Islam. There is the Islam of peace that is tolerant of the views of ...

"There is no objective right or wrong. Morality is just a matter of opinion." This is an obnoxious moral position generally used...

Over at " Unscrewing the Inscrutible ", Brent Rasmussen made the claim in his posting “ Gametes, Gods, and Monsters ” that: 3. M...

In yesterday’s blog entry, “ School Vouchers ”, I discussed three arguments in the school voucher debate. There are a couple of other issu...

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that one of Florida's school voucher systems is unconstitutional. The liberal press cheers this dec...

A few of my blog entries begin as responses to somebody's comment. I sometimes find myself going into a fair amount of detail on some fe...

It appears that President Bush agreed to Senator McCain's amendment prohibiting "cruel and degrading" treatment of prisoners b...

When I read that the Bush Administration does not intend to seek any more money to rebuild Iraq , my first impulse was to say that this was ...

I have spent the bulk of the past week discussing the Bill of Rights as a set of moral principles and the implications that this has for Bu...

In my recent post on " The Ten Amendments ", one commenter, Oz, raised two considerations that deserve more air time. My origina...

I spent the day with my spousal unit, so I did not have time to think deep thoughts or to write deep wrotes. I do, however, have some shal...