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April 2014

April 13, 2014

A Lens on Killing and Forgiveness

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and, over at The New York...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

World Vision, Bad Science, and Living Death Sentences

Here's the round-up of the posts I've done this week at The American Conservative, starting with...

October 2013

October 01, 2013

Warfare “as obscene as cancer”

During the debate over the proper response to Syria's use of chemical weapons, I kept...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

A Dicey Way Out of Dilemmas

In response to yesterday's post on breaking promises, KristeninDallas made an alternate suggestion: I'm not...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

The Self-Inflicted Wound of the Torturer

In C.S. Lewis's Of Other Worlds, most of the selections in the book are critical essays,...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

What should we be hurt by?

Poking around the internet, I ran across two interesting articles that seemed to be linked...

November 2012

November 12, 2012

The Day After Veterans Day

Veterans Day occurred yesterday in the U.S. It's a federal holiday for the recognition of...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

What Freedom from Moral Sensibilities Feels Like

Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Dutton underwent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to...

October 25, 2012

Why Won’t Candidates Run on This Life Issue?

This week, as part of Election Month at Patheos, the prompt for bloggers is: What...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

If you can’t take the heat, turn into a tardigrade!

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" is a quote that is...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

Offering Loving Resistance [Sequence Index]

In July 2012, Patheos sent me a copy of Logan Mehl-Laituri's memoir Reborn on the...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Brave Enough to Kill

The Pentagon is considering awarding Distinguished Warfare Medals to drone pilots and Glen Greenwald is...

July 16, 2012

What Can You Do in the War?

Given the way our discussion of pacifism has meandered over to a debate about martyrdom,...

July 06, 2012

Can Lethal Resistance be Loving?

I quite enjoyed reading Logan Mehl-Laituri's Reborn on the 4th of July for the Patheos...

April 2012

April 29, 2012

Beware of [YA Dystopias] Bearing Gifts?

This post contains vague spoilers for the Hunger Games trilogy. I'm speaking in generalities about...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Moral Intuitions Quiz: Lobotomized Meat

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I'm one of...

November 2011

November 17, 2011

Isn’t that Sweeney there beside you?

I'm in transit today. It's the weekend of the Harvard-Yale football game, and I'm headed...

November 16, 2011

Not Even if it’s the Right Thing to Do

So after kicking around the idea of sin-eating -- trying to take on the burden...

November 15, 2011

Assenting to Sin

If someone has made up their mind to do something evil, is there any benefit...

November 14, 2011

Harry Potter Spoilers and Ethical Quandaries in this Post

I'd like to expand the discussion on taking on the burden of someone else's sin...

November 09, 2011

June 2011

June 19, 2011

Update on Church Vandalism Fundraising

Hermant Mehta of Friendly Atheist has ended his atheist fundraiser to help two churches that...

May 2011

May 02, 2011

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he...

May 01, 2011

William Lane Craig and I (briefly) Agree!

P.Z. Myers has a post up lambasting Christian apologist William Lane Craig for his defense...

April 2011

April 21, 2011

Only Bad Catholics Go to Hell?

That's one possible consequence of the doctrine of invincible ignorance we were discussing yesterday. If...

March 2011

March 30, 2011

Play it Again: God’s Genocides

This is a new feature for the site, where I'm going to try to pull...

March 23, 2011

How Should I Call Out Nasty Atheists?

In a post earlier today, I disagreed with the conclusions of Jen Fulwiler's critique of...

November 2010

November 16, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes (Part 2)

This post is a LONG overdue response to Peter Somerville, who had some questions about...

October 2010

October 09, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes

This post is one in a series on sin and immortality. You can read the...

October 04, 2010

Sin and Immorality (Index Post)

Previously on this blog I've written about morality, but in a highly abstracted, mathematically-inclined way....