The Atheism and Wicca Series So Far
by Eric Steinhart Some folks have jumped into this series just recently, and others have had some trouble following due to the server problems in the last two days. The point of this series is to...
View ArticleMy Thoughts On Eric’s Wicca and Atheism Experiment
In early December, after juggling 9 classes and a daily blog all semester, I got sick. Eric Steinhart, a previous guest contributor on the blog, stepped in and has been the primary blogger on the site...
View ArticleCriticizing Wicca: Magic
This is a guest post by Eric Steinhart. [Magic is a pseudo-technology based on the pseudo-science of mysterious energy. It’s purpose is to provide the illusion of control. This post briefly describes...
View ArticleCriticizing Wicca: Magic is Unreliable
This is a guest post by Eric Steinhart. [This is part of a long series looking at atheism and Wicca.] Any procedure for changing an initial situation (the start) into a desired situation (the goal) can...
View ArticleCriticizing Wicca: Magic is Unethical
This is a guest post by Eric Steinhart. [This is part of a series looking at atheism and Wicca.] Many Wiccans practice magic. Skeptics, rationalists, and naturalists may all be tempted to try to use...
View ArticleAtheistic Wicca
[This is Eric Steinhart's next to last post in my long series on atheism and Wicca.] My approach to Wicca has been critical. For philosophers at least, and hopefully for any rational person, criticism...
View ArticleCan Utilitarians Properly Esteem The Intrinsic Value of Truth?
The Obvious Intrinsic and Instrumental Values of Truth It is prejudicial and fallacious to assume that the world is an inherently just place and that all the traits we idealize as virtues will always...
View ArticleGod and Goodness
Robin: Look, I get it, Jaime. As an atheist, you think that God’s wisdom is foolishness, that God’s righteousness is wickedness, and that the bloody death of Jesus on the cross is hateful and ugly...
View Article4 Kinds of Irony and Nietzsche. An Excerpt From My Dissertation
A peek inside my dissertation! I love this stuff about irony that I worked out in this section. Irony is such a generally ill-explicated subject. I wanted to blog about it today but decided I had...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Moral Cause of Feminism
In the last few years I have written a lot both on behalf of social justice and on the need to elevate the discourse surrounding it. I can say unequivocally that the feminist blogosphere and my...
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