In his bestselling book, the God Delusion, Richard Dawkin’s responds to the question: “If there is no God, Why be good?” Posed like that, the question sounds positively ignoble. When a religious person puts it to me in this way (and many of them do), my immediate temptation is to issue the following challenge: ‘Do you really mean […]
Entries from January 21st, 2021
Dawkin’s dilemma: How not to answer the question “Why Be Moral?”
January 21st, 2021 Comments Off on Dawkin’s dilemma: How not to answer the question “Why Be Moral?”
Tags: God and Morality · Henry Sidgwick · Richard Dawkins · The God Delusion · Thomas Reid · Why be Moral?
Abortion Hard Cases and Self Defence: Presentation
January 14th, 2021 Comments Off on Abortion Hard Cases and Self Defence: Presentation
This is the paper I presented to the Bioethics section of the Evangelical Theological Society, annual meeting. In November last year. Abstract:Op ponents of abortion often agonise over two difficult cases. (a) Cases where the pregnancy originates in rape and (b) cases the pregnancy or threatens the life of the mother. This paper will explore […]
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The question “Why Be Moral?” and the book of Proverbs.
January 12th, 2021 1 Comment
I gave a brief talk at Orewa Community Church on 10 January 2020. The talk was part of a short series OCC are doing on the book of proverbs. It is available here.
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
