atheists.org/blog

The ethics of argument tell us that we should criticize the idea and not the person.  I've decided to compromise by criticizing only part of the person.  I'm sure the writers at atheists.org/blog are decent parents, they would make for okay neighbors and they're good at their jobs (unless thats writing this blog).  The problem is they can't seem to make a philosophical argument to save their lives.  This is all fine and dandy except that they're telling the internet world how dumb others are.

They do use a lot of three syllable words but when I say they cant make an argument I mean just that.  Lets go back to the basics.  An argument is some claim/s (for fun lets call these premises) that support the truth of another claim (lets call this the conclusion).  A conclusion without premises is an assertion.  The problem is that their blogging is mostly assertions.  Claiming religion is harmful is just an assertion unless you give reasons to think this.

Some of the stuff is even just plain incoherent.  Justin Vacula lists off the conditions for knowledge and then describes them as "an appraisal of reason, argument, and evidence that coheres with reality."  Is Justin calling himself as an evidentialist and correspondence theorist?  Uh oh Justin.  You're gonna have some difficulty dealing with veritic luck and the regress problem.  Luckily Justin is an atheist so he doesn't have to make sense of how beliefs correspond to metaphysical entities (like God).

Now Ive been there, it hurts when you're picked last for youth group kick ball.  They really need to just get rid of the whole team captain thing and count off one, two, one, two.  But they haven't.  I think the writers at atheist.org/blog need to buck up, work on their soccer kick and sharpen that 30 yard dash rather than making empty rants about the religion of their play ground bullies.

Well what grade should we give atheist.com/blog.  If this were a philosophy class I don't think they would get a passing grade.  Im gonna go easy and give them a C.  Stay tuned for for blogging on blogs.

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