Is Religion True, Reasonable, or Good? A Debate
Theist vs. Atheist: What Should You Believe? A seven-part debate series between two columnists, John C. Wright and Stephen R.C. Hicks, in which they argue opposite positions on key issues in religion.
Philosophy and Religion
“Why Philosophy Begins With Thales”: Why Thales’s intellectual revolution marks the Greek transition from a religiously based worldview to a philosophical one. Homer’s epic literary work, The Iliad, provides a contrast to Thales’s surviving aphorisms.
Faith
Three lecture clips:
Kierkegaard, Luther, and Tertullian
The story of Abraham
Kierkegaard’s lesson: Abraham as model of faith.
Response to question, Does faith make you weak? (Two-minute video clip from Philosophy for Real Life)
Arguments For and Against the Existence of a God
The Argument from Design
The Argument from Evil
Original Sin and Human Nature
Augustine on why babies are evil: St. Augustine’s explanation of Original Sin, with some problems and questions.
Self-esteem in Walt Whitman and C. S. Lewis.
Freud and original sin: includes a comparison of Lewis’s and Freud’s views on human nature.
On Religious Intolerance
St. Thomas Aquinas on whether sinners should be killed or heretics tolerated.
“How to Tame Religious Terrorists.”
“No Reformation for Islam, Please”
On the Conflict of Science and Religion
“Galileo and the Modern Compromise”: Galileo’s influential argument for why religion, properly understood, does not conflict with science — and why, therefore, religious leaders should end their persecution of independent thinkers.
St. Augustine against anatomy and science.