I am happy with this result to my participation in The Euthyphro Dilemma online thingy, and why shouldn’t I be? Well, then again, much depends on the meaning of “tensions”: You claimed that there are moral standards independent of God’s will. This claim sits uneasily with the widely held belief that any being that counts as God must have the ability to obligate through its commands: in other words, that it is necessarily morally wrong to disobey a command given by God.
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Weird Coin
Atheists are supposed to be the arrogant ones because we presume to publicly challenge or deny theistic claims, but you aren’t likely to find (m)any atheists claiming that morality only exists in a secular, atheistic context.
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Jim Wallace: Ethics & Morality Didn't Exist Before Christianity
These dramatic unfoldings are ripped from the headlines: A mountain goat — an actual goat, not a member of the musical act — has killed a hiker on the Olympic peninsula. I saw an Olympic marmot when I went there once, but it didn’t kill anyone
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Considering Tetrapods
Paul Harvey My blog contributors John Fea, Gerardo Marti, and Michael Utzinger joined me last weekend at a really wonderful event, the 20th anniversary conference and celebration of the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University .
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Christianity and Scholarship in the Public Square, the Guild, and the Church
Atheism is becoming the new religion, evangelicals warned. Evangelicals heard the call today to be guardians of the truth in the face of widespread indifference to religion and the “denial” of Scripture within parts of the church
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American Atheists | Atheism Is Becoming The New Religion …
Well, both my channels are in danger of being deleted, so I decided to create a channel just for the Riffing Religion videos, so they’ll still be up even if the Wes964 channel gets taken down. Please subscribe. 
Also, I made a brand new Riffing Religion video (another riff on some Harun Yahyah creationist claptrap about “science” in the Quran), which I should be putting up shortly
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Riffing Religion – New Channel, Highlights, and Outtakes
Sort of in the same vein, I’m depressed and ashamed I didn’t make Jen’s graphic about blogger- atheists on this thread, sob. and damn, she’s so cute, isn’t she? Anyway, here’s my question: how do you balance your interest in …
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Atheism, Science and "Alternative" Therapy | Corrente
Although there can be no denying the long-standing hostility of traditional religious institutions towards evolution (not to mention science generally), we should not ignore the fact that not all religious figures and institutions have …
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Darwin & Religious Contemporaries – About.com: Agnosticism/Atheism
You’ve got the history of philosophy: Ancient, medieval, modern. Then you’ve got the Godfather Trilogy: Part I, Part II, Part III. Explore the startling parallels, and their relevance to the dispute between atheism and theism
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Classical theism, atheism, and the Godfather trilogy (What's Wrong …
Atheism and religion are often portrayed and treated as polar opposites; although there is a strong correlation between being an atheist and being irreligious, there is no necessary and inherent connection between the two. …
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Can Atheists Be Religious? Are there Religious Atheists?