My friend Lance introduced a lot of topics in the comment stream under my article Debunking Myself: What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been so I moved it here to create a fresh thread. He introduced five topics which I…
Category: Philosophy
Morality is Objective, like a Pair of Scales: Another Fatal Flaw in Dr. Craig’s Moral Argument for God
There is a pervasive confusion about the meaning of morality shared by believers and skeptics alike. Theists typically assert that nothing could be “really” right or wrong without an authority – a God – to define it as such. Atheists…
Posted in Christianity, Moral Theory Tagged with: Debate, Losing my religion, Moral Theory, Morality, Shelly Kagan, William Lane Craig
Why most Animals are not Philosophers: Fatal Flaws in Dr. Craig’s Moral Argument for God
A moral agent is defined as any being able to make moral judgments and be subject to them. Moral agents must possess two faculties. They must be self-aware else they could not make judgments with respect to their own actions…
On Integrity as the Highest Value
INTEGRITY: The state of being whole, undivided, perfect in composition; unity, wholeness, completeness. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Integrity is the grand unifying concept of all knowledge and philosophy. It is the way,…
Posted in Philosophy
The Logic of Love: A Natural Theory of Morality
All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. All you need is love (all together now) All you need is love (everybody) All you need is love,…
The Golden Rule and the Foundation of Objective Morality
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. ~ Matthew 7:12 (NIV) The “Moral Argument for God” asserts that there would be no moral truths…
An Atheist Foundation for Objective Morality
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ~ Steven Weinberg The…
Posted in Christianity, Philosophy
The Bible Wheel as a Cosmic Mandala of Archetypal Wholeness
“The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate…
Richard Amiel McGough
I am educated in Mathematics and Physics and am currently a software engineer at 4QTRS in Yakima, Wa.
I created this site on February 11, 2001 to share the Bible Wheel which I discovered in 1995. For over a decade I was completely convinced it was proof of the divine inspiration of Scripture. In late 2009 my wife and I began questioning our beliefs and have since left the faith.Oddly enough, the evidence for the Bible Wheel withstood our skepticism though the Bible itself did not. What it means remains a mystery. The mystery has been resolved. See my post Debunking Myself: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
I created this site on February 11, 2001 to share the Bible Wheel which I discovered in 1995. For over a decade I was completely convinced it was proof of the divine inspiration of Scripture. In late 2009 my wife and I began questioning our beliefs and have since left the faith.
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