The Selfish Meme Strikes Back: New Atheism’s Failed Crusade
I am in the middle of going back through all of my blog posts over these past ten years and self-publishing various collections from all my work. Last month, I ...
Tag: Dan Barker
“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...
“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...
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...
“godless” by Dan Barker (Part 12): Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
We now come to the last installment of my extended book analysis of Dan Barker’s godless. In this post, we will look at Barker’s argument that Jesus didn’t real...