In the wake of recent, more interesting news, the child-sex trial of cult leader Tony Alamo — whose followers used to circulate his full-color newsletters under windshield wipers all around Austin and elsewhere — has been playing out largely under the radar. What stuns me about all of this is not just the ghastly spectacle …
Category Archive: ethics/morality
May 22 2009
“Stop bashing my religion”
Fairly often, we get e-mails complaining about how we are only out to bash Christianity and will we please just stop. Usually, the author will have a glowing impression of their religion and its impact on the world and we are just misinformed. We do beat up on Christianity. I know I do. I think …
Apr 07 2009
Science fiction story
I’m sure this is not terribly original, but here’s my story. One day, spaceships appear in the sky. Appearing on every television screen, radio, and pool of water, the ships broadcast the following message to everyone: “Greetings, citizens of Earth! We are a race of life forms so vastly superior to you that our ways …
Jan 26 2009
Superior Christian morality!
Ted Haggard’s back in the news. This time, it’s been revealed that his megachurch New Life knew full well of Haggard’s homosexual proclivities, and that, in addition to the gay drug-dealing male prostitute situation, they paid a 20-year-old church volunteer a bunch of hush money to keep him from telling anyone about his own assignations …
Nov 01 2008
More on Prop 8 and Hitler
Lest anyone think my mention of Nazi Germany in my California Prop 8 post was over the top, I have officially been outdone by this alleged spokesperson said in his breathless support of Prop 8: The link to the video is here. These people are desperate.
Oct 28 2008
Ray is preaching my stuff!
I just checked the latest post from Ray Comfort and submitted the following response. I’m doubtful that he’ll post it and I’m very doubtful that we’ll ever have any sort of dialog…but, darn it, I just can’t stop trying. I guess I’m a bit more masochistic than I thought. For those that don’t want to …
Oct 25 2008
Inequality via threats
In my August 10th Atheist Experience co-host gig (episode #565), I talked about the alleged “threat” of equality and why there was such a shrill opposition to it. California is a hot spot right now in that battle and there has been an interesting development there. Some context: In May, the California Supreme Court ruled …
Aug 31 2008
Today’s Show – Moral Judgment
Today’s show discusses moral judgment, particularly with respect to the work of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. Though by no means the final word on the subject, both made significant contributions to our understanding of moral development. Piaget’s model for moral development included only two stages. He observed that children younger than 10 or 11 …
Jul 08 2008
“Wanted”: In which I take a dumb summer action flick entirely too seriously
I saw “Wanted” over the weekend, and it was more or less what I was expecting: dumb action movie, neato “Matrix”-like special effects, pretentious effort to hammer home some kind of deep pop-philosophical message. Unfortunately, since this is a relatively new movie, I’m frustrated by my desire to talk about the things that bugged me …
Jul 05 2008
*puke*
From the odious Billy Graham: Jesse Helms, my friend and long-time senator from my home state of North Carolina, was a man of consistent conviction to conservative ideals and courage to faithfully serve God and country based on principle, not popularity or politics. In the tradition of Presidents Jefferson, Adams and Monroe — who also …
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