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December 2012

December 05, 2012

The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Philosophers

I know there are some rumblings in yesterday's thread about sin, judgment, and necessity about...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

I Never Promised You an Ecstasy Garden

Since we've been discussing some Mormon perspectives on conversion and personal revelation, I've got the...

September 07, 2012

A Mormon Perspective on Interrogating Emotions

It's a guest post by Michael Haycock! He blogs aperiodically at Not a Tame Lion,...

September 07, 2012

The Epistemological Weight of Warm Fuzzies

I was reading an On the Square post from a Mormon to Catholic convert and...

April 2012

April 01, 2012

Upon this ROC I will build…

I was considering writing an April Fools day post, but life's too short to not...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Playing the Consistency Game

When I posted earlier on the blogfight unleashed by Jenifer Fulwiler’s post “Five Catholic Teachings...

March 2011

March 20, 2011

God Can’t Prove Much to Puny Mortals

Over in the comment thread of last week's post on standards of proof for miracles,...

February 2011

February 03, 2011

Chesterton Aftermath (Part 1)

Thanks for all the comments and questions that you've left on my Monday post on...

November 2010

November 24, 2010

Thinking Skeptically about Atheist Explanations

The Friendly Atheist runs a regular feature called "Ask Richard" -- an advice column penned...

November 10, 2010

Q&A: What counts as proof? What beliefs are provable?

This post is linked to a series inspired by Michael Egnor's eight questions for atheists...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe: Euclid and Utili-Christians

This post is one in a series on why I do not believe in Christianity....

September 29, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe: A History Mystery

This post is one in a series of reasons I don't believe in Christianity. You...

September 28, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe: Unconvincing Conversions

This is the first in a series of posts about why I don't believe in...

September 27, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe (Series Index)

I've used this blog to pick at some parts of religion that I find...

July 2010

July 13, 2010

God’s Place in a Supernatural Bestiary

Commenter Aristarchus is pretty much in complete disagreement with my weighting of evidence for God...

July 12, 2010

The handy dandy guide to converting me

Thanks to all the theists who spoke up on last week's post and told what...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

Your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins

Thanks all for your comments on last week's post on standards of evidence (extraordinary and...

June 21, 2010

Eye has not seen, ear has not heard

Thanks all for your comments on last week's post on attempts to sanitize the liturgy....