Do you still think there are absolute morals? QS may persuade you otherwise as he tackles the arguments for god based on the existence of morality. As a side benefit he also does a wonderful job of explaining the is/ought problem. Grab a coffee as this vid weights in at 17 minutes, but I assure […]
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Progressive Proselytizing: Equality and Education
We live in a society that now ostensibly accepts equality and egalitarianism as a normative moral basis for our society. Not just the founding principles of classical liberalism with equal rights to speech, association, religion, and the like, but a…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Memories of being harangued, condescended to and lectured linger long after their encounter. Media and political examples […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ethics and Religion
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Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Defending the Burqa
The Netherlands is the next country in the domino chain, following France and Belgium, in which it is likely they will ban the burqa in all public places. There are many arguments against such a ban that fall very much in line with typical liberal val…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On Objective Morality
Most moral theories are predicated, at their root, by various assumptions or axioms which in turn cannot be derived independently. That is, there does not seem to be some cosmically significant, absolute grounding for morality that simply and unques…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Language and Religion Part II: On Religious Morality
In the second installment of Language and Religion, we look at the question of absolute morality and some of the confusions that result from issues of semantics and language. Previously we looked at deism, in part I, and will look at agnosticism in pa…
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Atheists are Differently Religious – and No, Atheism is not the/a Religion
A main focus of this blog is to consider and compare different political and ethical philosophies so as to promote better understanding of one’s own worldview and those of others. I frequently focus on progressivism/liberalism and libertarian conservativism, arguing that these incompletely overlapping moral/political philosophies each have their own internal logic and validity, but that […]
LeDaro: GOP loves strippers and adult entertainment
The guardians of religion and Christ are also great fans of striptease and adult entertainment. Tampa, Florida is well prepared for the GOP’s August 2012 convention. Repugs commandment #11 is to support strippers and adult industry in general; howe…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Israel/Palestine Overview
The Israel/Palestine issue is a particularly difficult topic to talk and write about simply because it is such a poignant, polarizing and established issue. Within a few sentences, western commentators on the issue quickly get lumped as either “pro-Isr…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Absolute Morals? – Absolutely not.
I’m always a bit flabbergasted when people start making pronouncements about moral issues and backing up their claims with biblical proof. You may as well be saying that your beliefs are decisively supported by the ham sandwich you had for lunch. Qualia Soup dissects the inanity and lack of intellectual rigour of theists who claim […]
Dead Wild Roses: More Christain “Morality”
It’s funny how when the bible says some really ugly repugnant things the ability to interpret what it ‘actually’ means becomes so darn important. One would think the word of god was above the musing of mere mortals….
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Morality: Not in the Bible
Qualia Soup continues his series on Morality with a look at the bible and why it is not the place to go when looking for morality. At fourteen minuets it is long by youtube standards, but well worth watching.
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Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Religion’s Changing Domain of Knowledge
Religion has long claimed ultimate Truth in two differing domains of knowledge: what is, and what ought to be; descriptive and normative; knowledge about the nature of the universe and knowledge of the morality of the universe. But these claims to know…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: My Central Tension in Moral Philosophy
It would be nice to be able to say that my moral leanings followed a consistent system of moral belief and didn’t leave central questions such as the source of morality unanswered. Were that the case, it might superficially lend credence to the weight …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Austerity Leads to Suicide Rate Increase
Friday’s Vancouver Sun had a short item that you might have missed, “Suicides up, road deaths down due to recession.” It’s in the bottom corner of page B5: Suicides rates rose sharply in Europe in 2007 to 2009 as the financial crisis drove unemployment up and squeezed incomes, with the worst hit countries like Greece […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Thoughts on a Filibuster
Can I get a “WOW”? Just look at all those women! I couldn’t stop grinning as woman after woman after woman rose and spoke. What happened to all the arrogant white dudes? Oh, they’re posturing and questioning. I guess someone noticed as the past few questions have been lobbed by female CPC MPs. Aside from […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Greece at a Crossroads
Now that the Greek government has survived a confidence vote in Parliament, the stage is set in Greece for further confrontations ahead of next week’s decision on the new “austerity” plan demanded by the “troika” – the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the European Union (EU). While the origins of […]
Continue readingConservatives make a grave mistake by associating liberalism with moral relativism
I understand that most conservatives, with their strong sense of national pride and social responsibility, tend to group most of us liberals into the, “they believe in what is expedient but not in what is right” category.
In other words, they sometim…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Canucks Riots: Turn your neighbours in?
Yesterday, I wrote about the narrative of division that’s going around in the traditional media and social media following the Vancouver Riots. Jasmin wrote about the standard leap-to-blame-the-anarchists reaction that also came up. But now I’m getting kind of creeped out by the digital witch hunt that’s taking place, with a huge amount of websites […]
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