For a significant fraction of the population, the words “God” and “Christian” signify several specific and related beliefs: that God exists, and is the Supreme Being who Created the Universe (SBwCU); that God is all knowing, all loving, and all powerful; that Jesus Christ is the divine Son of God, sent to Earth to redeem […]

If “the world is everything that is the case“, as Wittgenstein said, then the truth consists of an accurate representation of the world. But it’s a big, complex world out there, and we’re just puny humans, after all. Often, the truth can only be approximated. That is the point of view of […]

Atheism is often seen as extreme, ultimately requiring a kind of “faith” similar to that which Christianity requires. “After all,” the argument goes, “you can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, any more than I can prove that He does. So your atheism requires just as much faith as my Christianity.”
Yeah, but … no.
I […]

Let’s start with a simple fact: currently over 50% of the world’s population professes a belief in one of the 3 great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. The monotheists are almost all either Christians (33%) or Muslims (22%). Adherents to Judaism make up less than one-half of one percent of the world’s population. Why […]