The Argument from Incorporeality



So, I have been using this counter-apologetic for a while now on Twitter:



1. A being is a thing has the ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human (including consciousness and sentience).



2. All known beings exist in time and space.

3. If the theist claims that god is immaterial (outside time and space).

4. Therefore, god cannot exist.



What do you…

As a sociologist, I can not rely on naturalism or materialism (especially methodological naturalism).



The study of social life would be impossible from any of those positions.



Thus it is important to understand the epistemological and ontological basis of all worldviews, even if they do not lead to truth. It is enough that people believe them to be true (because sociology is not about truth, but about how people make sense of the world.



Having said that:…

Having recently spent quite a bit of time looking closely at the doctrines of a wide range of religions, I have come to the conclusion that most follow the same pattern:



1. An authority figure makes a claim that the individual is in some way flawed or dependent on a supernatural entity;

2. The authority figure make the claim that only they have special access to that supernatural entity;

3. The individual is thus convinced they are incomplete without the authority…

"...if not for the women of this church, it would be poorer. So we acknowledge the role of these women who serve us with enthusiasm.” Different man in many layers

Again I let go of my skepticism about gods and let the power of the ritual of the Catholic Mass surround me.

I meet a skinny man who had been going to this church since 1961. Not this exact building, but the same precinct. The building in which we chat now has been a school chapel, a school house and…

“Once you give up one doctrine, it is easier to give all of them up. I am an agnostic.” Man with beard.



It is almost redundant to say that 25 years is a long time. It has taken a complete break from my routinised everyday life to make me realise this. At the time that I left the Catholic church, there were many worshippers and many services on both Saturday and Sunday. I remember regularly attending the…

As an atheist and a trained sociologist, I fail to see any evidence for innate human rights (what some may call natural rights). While I personally agree that all humans should be extended equal rights  and that this should occur in all places and at all times. Yet, at the moment there is no evidence that such origins of such rights are to be found in either biology or human nature (if there is such a thing).…

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A new video where Mundane matt:

• states that 3rd wave feminists and white knight males perpetuate rape culture, as they say women are weak;
• But he claims that women are stronger than men (emotionally but not physically);
• he claims that 3rd wave feminists and white knight males perpetrate a myth 'cause it gives them an audience; and
• he also claims that "feminists…

Thursday 8/11/12

NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox claims civer-up of child sexual abuse by the Catholic church

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-08/studio-interview-with-senior-nsw-detective-peter/4362100

Friday 9/11/12

The NSW Government has announced a special commission of inquiry into the…

My introduction to antihumanism came though reading Heidgger, Marx and Michel Foucault. But they are not really a great place to start for a…

reBlog from Crates and Ribbons (link…

I am having a long running discussion in another forum about whether Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao were atheists.



I maintain that there were not, in the current sense, because they were simply following Marx's axiom that religions are human products.



That would put the burden of proof on him to prove that there was no gods. Since this is impossible, he should have revised his ideas.



Maybe they should have been something like:



"The belief in god is a human…