Theist vs. Atheist: What Should You Believe? is a seven-part series of articles by two authors, John C. Wright and Stephen R. C. Hicks, in which they debate seven key issues in religion. On the Proofs of God’s Existence Stephen R. C. Hicks As we enter the third round of our debate series, our first […]
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Theist vs. Atheist: What Should You Believe? is a seven-part series of articles by two authors, John C. Wright and Stephen R. C. Hicks, in which they debate seven key issues in religion. Are Reason and Faith Compatible? Stephen R. C. Hicks I appreciate Mr. Wright’s opening essay and am in agreement with substantial portions
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Theist vs. Atheist: What Should You Believe? is a seven-part series of articles by two authors, John C. Wright and Stephen R. C. Hicks, in which they debate seven key issues in religion. Is Religion Worth Arguing About? By Stephen R. C. Hicks My answer is: Absolutely, yes, religion is worth arguing about. We
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During a fun (and long) question-and-answer session after a lecture at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania — some of us were still going strong after three hours — I was asked my view on the origins of the Enlightenment. The first questioner noted that Jordan Peterson had spoken at Lafayette the year before and had argued
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As political winds blow, those whose principles are merely tactics change tack. But it’s especially galling when it’s professional legal and religious experts who reveal themselves so.
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Łyszczyński was a Polish nobleman and philosopher who had been working on an atheist treatise. A bishop who witnessed his torture and killing described them this way …
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At Britain’s Church and State site, my article “Religion and the Verdict of History” has been republished. One theme about sub-species of religious belief: “It’s the difference — to take one very particular example — between those who believe, as Benjamin Franklin did, that ‘Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to
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In Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard defends faith by going on the offensive against reason: “Faith requires the crucifixion of reason.” For more on the context of Kierkegaard’s irrationalism and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 98 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this
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