“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 7): Thus Concludes the Matter
We now come to the end of my critique of Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality. In all honesty, it hasn’t been a fun series to write—it wasn’t because Barker’s argum...
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“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 6): Rebellion, Curses, and Evil (Why Dan Barker Misunderstands Them All)
We are moving on to yet another post about Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality. As I said in the previous post, the second half of Barker’s book really just amount...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 5): God, Morality, Ethnic Cleansing?
We now come to the point of Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality, where it essentially devolves into an exercise in over the top condemnations of the Bible and Chri...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 4): Reason, Law, and Rebellion…and why the New Atheists really are just secular ultra-fundamentalist cult
After his elaboration on his belief that morality and culture are a result of evolutionary forces, Dan Barker then addresses the issues of Reason, Law, and Rebe...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 3): Morality Genes, Cultural Memes, and More Assertions From the “Evolution of the Gaps”
In my previous post on Dan Barker’s book Mere Morality, I responded to Barker’s attempt to draw a distinction between “religious values” and “human values,” as ...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 2): Religious Values, Human Values, and Self-Castrating Monks?
In my previous post, I began to walk through Dan Barker’s book Mere Morality and noted, among other things, that he tries to claim that our sense of morality is...
Mere Morality by Dan Barker–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 1): What’s the Passing Grade for Morality?
Recently, the former fundamentalist preacher turned atheist Dan Barker has come out with a book entitled, Mere Morality, in which he essentially makes two argum...
John Walton’s “Lost World of the Torah” (Part 3): Not a Divine Rule Book; Rather Reflecting God’s Character Within the ANE Culture
In John Walton’s most recent book, The Lost World of the Torah, he attempts to correct a number of misconceptions people today, both Christians and non-Christia...
Is Morality Derived From a Transcendent Standard?
Dan Barker, the former fundamentalist minister-turned-atheist, and now president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has recently written his most recent b...
John Walton’s “Lost World of the Torah”–A Book Review (Part 2): Why the Torah Needs to be Seen in Light of the Covenant…and What “Holiness” Really Means
John Walton’s most recent book, The Lost World of the Torah takes the reader through a number of misconceptions we in the modern world tend to have about the To...