Friedrich Nietzsche, the greatest Atheist

Friedrich Nietzsche is, in my estimation, the greatest atheist philosopher, especially in the realm of ethics, of all time, and the greatest apologist for Satan (in the sense of an opposition to God, Christianity, and all that it stands for) that has ever lived.

An Irenaeun cosmological argument.

The cosmological argument (as well as the contingency argument) is well known, a famous version being that of Thomas Aquinas in his 5 ways.[1] The argument, broadly, relies on the necessity of a first cause, or a necessary being from which all contingent reality receives its existence, and the impossibility of an infinite causal regress (be that causal regress temporal or atemporal) or an infinite regress of contingency. Irenaeus argues, in his Against Heresies, against the Gnostic idea of a higher pleroma above the creator, which I think can be restated, bringing together different arguments in Against Heresies, as a cosmological argument for the existence of God.

Love and Solidarity in the Light of Death and Eternity

Originally published by Macrina Magazine, May 9, 2020

Carrier’s Cheap Apologetics

Richard Carrier is mostly known as a Jesus mythicist, using Beysian probability along with very dubious historical methodology, to construct an argument that the historical Jesus doesn’t exist. This argument has not been taken seriously by almost any one in historical Jesus/Christian origins scholarship or historiography in general, and it shouldn’t be, since the whole methodology is flawed and constructed in order to lead to the conclusion Carrier wants (some reviews can be found here, here, and here).

However, Richard Carrier has (relatively recently) decided to take a swipe at philosophical theology, attempting to attack Edward Feser’s Five Proofs of the Existence of God. I don’t know what I was expecting when I decided to take a read through it, but here are some highlights.