Mere Secularism?

I’ll be a mere ‘secularist’ when, In The Name Of And Justified By Religion people STOP:

• burning men and women to death as witches
• beating gay people to death
• pushing for legislation that would see gay people put to death
• eschewing proper healthcare in favor of prayer and faith-healing
• beating their children to death
• flying planes into building
• blowing themselves and others up
• working to deny women or gay people rights
• working to have the state violate women’s bodily autonomy
• pushing their religious agenda into public schools or trying to take public funds to fund religious activities
• justifying their wars

Or pushing for other types of violations of bodily autonomy or empowered and informed consent in the absence of prior aggression (and given due process of law).

Not a moment before then.

Philosophy Off The Rails

The self-proclaimed 'college professor' over at their BLOG Philosophy Out of the Box (Why Atheism is Illogical. Part One: Atheism is a Belief and a Truth Claim) has decided that, rather than lose the debate, they will just delete last response and block me, so I am reproducing them here for posterity (the first two as thumbnails, the last embedded as an image along with the referenced post that was also deleted by them).







And a fourth post they delete on another page that is referenced in the third post above:



The ????? is ἄθεος -- apparently his blog cannot handle Unicode.

I welcome feedback on my arguments.


When asked about the arguments presented by 'college professor', Massimo Pigliucci (Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York, @mpigliucci) responded:

@levelsixtysix Hmm, primary facie, it seems like bullshit to me...

— Massimo Pigliucci (@mpigliucci) May 13, 2013