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Use My Promo Code to Attend the Latest eConference on Religious Trauma!

Richard Carrier — Sun, 14 May 2023 23:32:24 +0000

…and you’ll get a discount on tickets to the June 10-11 virtual academic conference on Religious Trauma hosted by the Global Center for Religious Research. It will bring together clinicians, researchers, and survivors from all over the world to discuss the latest research on religious trauma. I’ve attended several GCRR econs like this one and […]

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The Scary Truth about Critical Thinking

Richard Carrier — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:03:21 +0000

The fundamental goal of legitimate critical thinking (as opposed to the fraudulent kind) is to ascertain what is true, about yourself and the world. So the tools that constitute critical thinking must be tools for finding the truth. And that means tools for discovering which beliefs are false. And that means continually admitting to yourself […]

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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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Antinatalism Is Contrafactual & Incoherent

Richard Carrier — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:01:42 +0000

Antinatalism is the view that the human race should let itself go extinct; more particularly, it should do so because that outcome is “better”; and therefore having children is immoral (there is a decent entry on this in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; it even has a Wikipedia page). I’ve been asked about it a […]

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The False Trichotomy of Lord, Liar, or Lunatic

Richard Carrier — Thu, 26 May 2022 00:42:57 +0000

C.S. Lewis may have been the worst philosopher of the twentieth century. Worse even than his contemporary Ayn Rand. And that’s saying something; because she was pretty bad at it. Weirdly, he was an even worse historian. As Bart Ehrman put it, “The problem is that in addition to not being a philosopher or theologian […]

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A Psychology of Men? A Critical Review of Robert Glover’s No More Mr. Nice Guy

Richard Carrier — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:58:40 +0000

Today I will be reviewing a book by, about, and for men. It was written by Robert A. Glover, a real psychotherapist—presumably; his bio attests a PhD in family and marriage therapy and years of clinical practice, although I found no appreciable research publication history (a point that will become relevant). The book, No More […]

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That Jordan Peterson Is a Crank: A Handy Guide

Richard Carrier — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:58:15 +0000

Jordan Peterson has already become a joke in many circles. But enough remain mesmerized by his shtick to warrant a survey of why he’s just another pseudoscientific guru running a con. He is, essentially, the Deepak Chopra of the Nones; and his books, akin to The Secret for incels, angry men, and disaffected conservatives. A […]

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The Real Basis of a Moral World

Richard Carrier — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:52:43 +0000

What worldview is better for the world? That’s a question I debated with Joel McDurmon of American Vision just the other day in Houston. I’ll announce the video when it goes live. But one of the matters that came up centrally in that debate was moral theory. What worldview will “cause people to behave”? As […]

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Plantinga’s ‘Two Dozen or So’ Arguments for God: Moral & Other Arguments

Richard Carrier — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:13:06 +0000

Part 3. I just addressed Plantinga’s ontological and metaphysical arguments (A through I) and his epistemological arguments (J through Q). Here I conclude with his moral and other arguments (R through Z; and finally, his whopper of all arguments, the Argument from Reformed Epistemology): III. Moral Arguments R. Argument from All the Moral Arguments Plantinga […]

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Plantinga’s ‘Two Dozen or So’ Arguments for God: The Epistemological Arguments

Richard Carrier — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 02:46:37 +0000

Part 2. I just addressed Plantinga’s ontological and metaphysical arguments (A through I). Here I cover his epistemological arguments (J through Q). Next I’ll cover his moral and other arguments (R through Z). I’ll link those in when they go up. For now, part two: II. Half a Dozen Epistemological Arguments Plantinga insists evolution by […]

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