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November 2021

November 26, 2021

The Tower of Babel, Immigration, and Google Translate

I have just been inspired to write this piece by an arguably throwaway comment on...

April 2021

April 24, 2021

‘Your Idea of “Fair” Does Not Equal God’s Fairness’

After my post debating fairness with Paul Hoffer, another Catholic commenter, Jim Dailey, stated this rather...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Doubting the Lessons from Doubting Thomas: Responding to Dave Armstrong Again

I started off this debate the other day with a short piece about the unfairness...

March 16, 2021

The Double Standards Involved with Doubting Thomas

Here's the thing - we often hear that God wouldn't put a cross on the...

August 2020

August 04, 2020

Can God Have a Sense of Humour?

In short, no. And I'm of the opinion that this invalidates claims to a meaningful...

February 2020

February 27, 2020

Should Atheists Bring Children into the World? Should Christians Murder Their Babies?

These are the sorts of questions you should be discussing around the dinner table with...

February 21, 2020

On God-Fearing Theists

This video is well worth a watch. I'll leave it here for now and then...

August 2019

August 08, 2019

God’s Divine Foreknowledge, His Culpability and the Problem of Evil

God’s divine foreknowledge has recently raised its interesting head over the last few comment threads...

July 2019

July 09, 2019

Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Creating Imperfectly

Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK),...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

God Hates His Own Designed Creations: Animals

God appears to really hate non-human animals. Which is an odd thing considering he designed and...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

God’s Superfluity in Creating the Universe

“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may...

March 18, 2019

There Are Only Two Gods Available, Really

I was recently having a rather abstract conversation with my good friend and Tippling Philosopher...

January 2019

January 08, 2019

What Is God? What Is Religion?

Here is some of the beginning to my chapter in Jonathan MS Pearce's (ed.) recent...

October 2018

October 14, 2018

This is God talking to you, so pay attention.

INTRODUCTION I wrote this piece a couple years ago in response to a series of...

March 2017

March 12, 2017

God and his Free Will Problem.

I wrote a short piece on God's free will and the issues it can cause...

March 10, 2017

God: Can He Choose His Own Qualities? Can He Commit Suicide?

The idea of libertarian free will is a contentious one, but let's assume, for the...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

One More Time, God Loves Abortion!

God Loves Abortion! Or it is necessary for foetuses to die for a greater good....

January 21, 2017

This Is the Soft Underbelly of Christianity

A friend of mine, who goes by the name of Fellow Feather, often writes adverts for...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

God’s Omnipotence as Incoherent and Unsatisfactory

Justin Schieber, in the desolate wilderness that is life after the Reasonable Doubts podcast, produces some excellent...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

God’s Haphazard Mercy: When perfect traits are less than perfect

When Christians insist that their God is the perfect representation of all traits, why is...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

God Cannot Be Perfect Because Intrinsic Perfect Does Not Make Sense

I am reposting this article as it is good to get previous writing seen by a...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

God Is A Moral Consequentialist!!

Here is an essay that I wrote some time ago, raising points that William Lane...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Is Everyone’s Free Will Exactly Equal?

Anyone who has frequented my blog in the past or who is cognisant of my...

January 14, 2016

God as a Mirror Reflection – God as Verification, not Judgement

I gave a talk last night (my God on Trial talk) which went down a...

January 03, 2016

Free Will and the Leap of Faith

I have been engaged in an ongoing discussion with several friends about the concept of...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Who is the Sinner?

This is a little argument from a friend of mine, Julian. Let me know what...

November 12, 2015

God’s experiential knowledge and not creating anything

Those who adhere to divine foreknowledge adhere to the notion that God has complete knowledge....

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Great first review for my new ebook on classical theism

John Grove, a commenter here on occasion at ATP, and a great supporter of my...

September 14, 2015

Justin Schieber’s Real Atheology

It comes with great sadness to announce that my favourite podcast of all time, Reasonable...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Charleston murderer was easy to stop.

If you were God. A friend recently emailed this: The South Carolina Shooter's Free Will...

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