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Our Most Rational Minds Considering All Hypotheses?

I am not intending this to be smug. I mean this post sincerely. In a recent SlateStarCodex post, Scott Alexander–who is one of the most open-minded, thoughtful bloggers I follow–wrote: I realize this is pretty unsophisticated-sounding, but I’m basing this off of my continuing confusion over the rise of Christianity. Christianity came out of nowhere […]

Tolstoy’s A Confession

For Christmas I got this work (which Jordan Peterson talks about), as I am a huge fan of The Kingdom of God Is Within You. This passage from early in the book really rang true to me: I am amazed at how accurately this describes economists today. Here’s a prominent economist arguing that “Money is […]

Murphy Links

Some things that have been accumulating; I may have already posted some of them but just in case: ==> My post at IER on coal transportation and the impact on climate policy. ==> Contra Krugman ep. 118: I fly solo, taking on Krugman’s interview with Ezra Klein. ==> My interview on the Libertarian Christian podcast.

Murphy Interview on Conversion and Libertarianism & Christianity

I got into some specifics in this interview that I don’t normally discuss. Probably if you’ve religiously (ha ha) read my religious posts over the years, you have heard all of this, but I don’t usually tell the story in one sitting. We then move on to standard issues on the possible tension between libertarianism […]

The Superlative Jesus, Part 2

In last Sunday’s post I quoted this challenge: “Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a […]

The Superlative Jesus, Part 1

Frequent commenter Keshav left this interesting remark on a previous post: Dan, what do you think about this quote by Robert Ingersoll? “Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect […]

Heaven vs. Hell

I think I’ve touched on this before, but perhaps it’s worth revisiting… An understandable stumbling block for people who encounter the Christian worldview is the notion that some external being is threatening to burn you for eternity if you don’t live up to his rules, even though you never agreed to them. What the hell?! […]