The Problem Is That Religion

The Problem Of Vindicating An Omnipotent And Omniscient God In The Face Of Evil Is Insurmountable. Those Who Claim To Have Surmounted It, By Recourse To Notions Of Free Will And Other Incoherencies, Have Merely Heaped Bad Philosophy Onto Bad Ethics.

Our World Is Fast Succumbing To The Activities Of Men And Women Who Would Stake The Future Of Our Species On Beliefs That Should Not Survive An Elementary School Education.

You Are Using Your Own Moral Intuitions To Authenticate The Wisdom Of The Bible - And Then, In The Next Moment, You Assert That We Human Beings Cannot Possibly Rely Upon Our Own Intuitions To Rightly Guide Us In The World.

In My Own Case, The Most Inflammatory Statements I Have Ever Made Are Ones That I Have Written And Remain Willing To Defend.

Most Of Us Are Wiser Than We May Appear To Be. … On One Level, Wisdom Is Nothing More Profound Than An Ability To Follow One’s Own Advice.