Excusing the inexcusable
Some moral questions are difficult. Some are shrouded in uncertainty. Some come into focus only with the passage of time. There are some on which reasonable people can disagree. Then there is slavery.
Jonathan MS Pearce
Jordan Peterson speaks—and we're gonna need a bigger shovel
As the old adage goes, if at first you make a fool of yourself... double down. You might remember that recently, Jordan Peterson got himself into embarrassingly hot water when he made a
What the heck do rabbit hutches have to do with size and danger of the universe?
So what the devil do rabbit hutches have to do with philosophical arguments against the existence of God, I hear you ask... Well, let me explain how these little houses built for pet
Does the Prodigal Son parable contradict Christian teaching?
I recently watched a YouTube video by Rabbi Tovia Singer that discussed how the “Prodigal Son” parable fundamentally conflicts with the Christian teaching of “Atonement," which sparked my interest in this well-known
Theodicies: Intellectual arguments don't eliminate toothaches
The problem of evil is the biggest thorn in the side of theism and religious belief, being an often emotive argument as to why there is so much suffering in the world if
Religion as a predator
Analogies are often tenuous, stretched to the point of breaking. But they can also be useful in understanding phenomena and the world around us. Indeed, a stretched analogy is like silly putty. If
Pro-gun lobby: If guns aren't 100% the issue, then they're 0% the issue
The gun debate is raging. Again. And all I need to really say about this scenario is encapsulated by this meme: This torturous loop continues because of the inaction of U.S. lawmakers,
Mass shootings in America: Why does the U.S. continue to do nothing?
Hungerford, England, 1987. 16 people were killed by a lone gunman. The Conservative government introduced the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, making registration mandatory for owning shotguns and banning semi-automatic and pump-action weapons. There
The poisoned church: When pastors use their pulpits to spread disinformation
As we see the world becoming victim to the effects of misinformation and disinformation of authoritarian political agents, it is worth remembering that this is also happening closer to home in our local
How do Christians explain vanishing twin syndrome and ensoulment?
Many theists believe that ensoulment takes place at conception, as the soul is either attached to, or emerges from, the physical matter of the fertilized egg. This theological minefield begs for critical analysis,
A call to attend Netflix's 'Midnight Mass'
Horror, very often, is not its own means to an end but a vehicle to deliver themes and underlying messages. We might look here to George Romero's 1978 seminal classic Dawn
What Jordan Peterson got right, and what he got horribly wrong
Jordan Peterson is one of the world's foremost dividers of opinion. And recently he quit Twitter, much to the sadness of his 2.7 million followers, after a foray into the