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Enjoying torturing people is not like enjoying asparagus. It is not an arbitrary choice that is just as good as trying to help people. If you really think it is, you need help—or an armed guard. I'm pretty sure that all the atheists whom I personally know agree with that. Morality does not require G...

If you believe in exclusively Mormon concepts like sealing to children then you are presumably gung-ho for remaining in the Mormon church and don't need to worry about alternatives because you are down with all of it. If Mormonism is seriously wrong about important things, then staying in the LDS ch...

If the Enlightenment was a great revolt against intellectual authority, then I think we’re only now starting to see the kind of use that intellectual authority did have. We are approaching an Endarkenment, perhaps. Wackos of the world, unite: you have nothing to lose but your inhibitions. Much as I ...

Except all religions believe additional things tagged on to believing God loves you. This is not an exclusively Mormon thing at all. You have to believe in Jesus and Catholic Priesthood, or Jesus and sola scriptura...or...plenty of other silly things. It‘s true that most religions believe their own...

Latter-day Saints believe God loves us, and wants us to know about Her/Him. If Biblical Christians are deceived, then there still might be some other ways to find out about God. If Latter-day Saints are deceived, then there is no way to find anything out about God. A majority of human beings believ...

If you believe that God would ever give authoritative guidance to an earthly religious institution as such, then you're going to believe that God inspires your own institution, not some other one. If you believe in popes, you generally believe in the Pope.

Nothing offered in support of the Book of Mormon is overwhelming as evidence. Even if one can't be sure exactly how the trick would have worked, convincing eight relatives and friends to lend their names to a statement about seeing something is totally the kind of thing that a decent con artist coul...

If this wacko was a Berkeley hemp artist, I feel let down by hemp art. I guess I had a little bit invested in the idea that art, and for that matter hemp, might pull against violence and magical thinking.

If Christian apologists jump too quickly from an ultimate being to their specific deity, then I think this criticism can be applied to a lot of assertive atheists, too. They make the same jump, just in the opposite direction. Oh - them. That weird straw-man sect of atheist people. Try me, on the ot...

If you google "Hebrew gospels" you learn some interesting things. Some early Christian writers mention a "gospel of the Hebrews", and even quote a few passages from it. Although purportedly used by early Jewish Christians, this gospel text was not in Hebrew, but Greek. There may have been as many as...