Religion

Philip on April 12th, 2009

Sometimes I have to force myself to be open-minded. Religious people go door-to-door trying to convert others to their religion, and atheists expend lots of effort trying to get believers to see reason. It’s commonplace for one person to try change the mind of another. But what about changing your own mind? I’m an atheist, [...]

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Philip on March 29th, 2009

An oft-heard theme is that religion is necessary so that we can have morality. I’ve even had people say to me, “Since you are an atheist, what keeps you from murdering people since it doesn’t matter anyway?” That line of thought actually implies two things: Morality comes from religion Morality comes only from religion I’m [...]

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