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A Golden Example of Antichoicers Lying to Your Face

Richard Carrier — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:38:28 +0000

Just this week a student in one of my online classes answered a test question with a real-world example of trying to manipulate people using numbers and graphs, which they had to debunk. The example they chose (from the course text, Levitin’s Field Guide to Lies) is solid gold; and they directed me to an […]

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How A Personal Fear of Death Might Also Be Driving the Anti-Abortion Delusion

Richard Carrier — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:49:51 +0000

I had a thought recently about abortion ideology that I wanted to explore. I used to think the only prime driver of anti-abortionism is literally just Christian patriarchy (predominately in the West at least; elsewhere it might be Islamic patriarchy). In other words, this is really just a desire to enforce sexist gender norms, lest […]

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Justin Brierley and the Folly of Christianity

Richard Carrier — Sun, 22 May 2022 23:45:19 +0000

This is the final entry in my series on Justin Brierley’s book Unbelievable? Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I’m Still a Christian. You can read my general summary of this book; where also at the bottom is a TOC linking to all the follow-ups, in which I delve more deeply into specific subjects […]

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How I’d Answer the 2020 PhilPapers Survey

Richard Carrier — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 01:27:06 +0000

After reviewing the new 2020 PhilPapers Survey, I can say none of my views have changed; while philosophy as a field has slowly crept more toward my views than not (see my previous article, The New 2020 PhilPapers Survey, which also covers my thoughts on some of the strange or interesting things this new survey […]

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The Bible Actually Permits Abortion and Condemns Homosexuality

Richard Carrier — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 04:30:35 +0000

There are two common modern myths about the Bible, one conservative, the other liberal. The liberal myth is that the Bible never condemns homosexuality. In fact it clearly does, both in the Old Testament and the New. The conservative myth is that the Bible condemns abortion as murder. In fact it clearly does not—it classifies […]

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