The Case for Agnostic Christianity
Thousands of people disengage from Christianity every year. Some have a crisis of faith and lose belief in God, the Resurrection, heaven or the existence of miracles. Others leave over…
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Does Secularism Lead to Racism? A Review of “Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race and Civilization, 1850–1914” by Nathan G. Alexander
Towards the end of his recent book on atheism and racism, Nathan G. Alexander argues that our understanding of the American black civil rights movement is obscured by the towering…
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Dostoevsky’s Campaign Against Rationalism and Progress
Fyodor Dostoevsky was defeated by history. A man who viciously attacked and satirized the ideologies of rationalism and communism and defended traditional religious and family structures, Dostoevsky died just decades…
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Despite the Heartbeat Bills, America Is Becoming Less Religious
Europeans who keep a moderately close eye on American politics and culture may assume they are observing a strongly religious nation. Certainly, polls proclaiming the unsuitability of an atheist to…
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Ancient Stoicism, Human Rights and The Dignity of the Individual
In August 2018, I published an article in Quillette, in which I defended Roman Stoicism from its Christian critics. The article examined the ethical possibilities of Christianity as compared with…
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Immigration Will Not Spark a British Religious Revival
There was recent surprise in some quarters, when London was revealed as the least tolerant place in the UK in terms of LGBT acceptance and premarital sex. But a brief…
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Is Ireland Ready to Abandon Catholicism
And is repealing abortion really the best approach? Earlier this week, fellow contributor at Areo, Barry Purcell, wrote “Is Ireland Ready for Abortion?” in which he concluded: “No longer can the…
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Is Ireland Ready for Abortion?
Ireland has always been seen, along with Poland, The Philippines and Central and South America, as the heartland of Catholic belief. Despite Ireland’s official status as a democratic republic, however,…
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The Gospel of Jon Snow: Christ Allegory in ‘Game of Thrones’
— Spoilers for Game of Thrones up to Season 7, Episode 3 — When a writer is trying to convey that a character is some kind of hero or redeemer, that…
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The Cultural Relativism of the Christian Majority
A faith which still celebrates its lonely, martyred forebears two thousand years later is fertile soil for persecution complexes, and they have indeed developed. But a persecution complex is a little…
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The Atheist Atrocities Fallacy — Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot
Religious apologists, particularly those of the Christian variety, are big fans of what I have dubbed, the atheist atrocities fallacy. Christians commonly employ this fallacy to shield their egos from the harsh reality…
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Scientology, The Simpsons, Cults, Christianity, and Islam
In the Simpson’s episode entitled “The Joy of Sect,” Homer Simpson is eventually persuaded to join a UFO cult called the “Movementarians.”[1] The episode is a satirical exposition of cults and…
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