In his book "Is the Atheist My Neighbor?" @RandalRauser provides a helpful analysis of the texts which many (most?) believers think support an idea which Rauser calls the "Rebellion Thesis."

🧵 "Rebellion Thesis: While atheists profess to believe that God does not exist, this disbelief is the result of an active and culpable suppression of an innate disposition to believe in God which is borne of a hatred of God and a desire to sin with impunity."

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Some recent tweets / posts have mine have been partially or totally about the relationship between atheism (defined metaphysically) and the universe (specifically, whether it has a beginning or cause). A quick 🧵:

#atheism #bigbang #theism

1/ I'm neither an expert on the topic nor is this something I'm actively thinking about, but to the extent one is interested to at least understand my position, here are some representative things I've said or written over the last 25 years (or so).

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Many attempts to apply Euthyphro-inspired dilemmas as some sort of decisive refutation of theistic morality fail because they commit the informal fallacy of the false dilemma. Whether posed as a formal argument or an informal question, many of these attempts

1/ contain an explicit or implicit disjunctive premise which limits the options to exactly two. But those attempts are vulnerable to a decisive objection of their own: they over-simplify things and in the process commit the fallacy of the false dilemma.

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I had to chance to start reading atheist philosopher Joel Mark's defense of "amoralism." He thinks morality (but not ethics) should be eliminated altogether. The story of Marks' "deconversion" from moralism to amoralism has been like red meat to theists

1/ who engage in "moral apologetics," i.e., people such as WLC who argue that objective moral values and duties depend on God. Now that I've had a chance to read Marks's summary of his argument, as presented in chapter 1 of "Hard Atheism and the Ethics of Desire,"

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(THREAD) Thought experiment on Christian communication about the afterlife, as an applied example of a problem in the new-ish field of "risk communication."

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https://twitter.com/SecularOutpost/status/1595913927564857344

This thread is going to assume the truth of what Peter Sandman describes in chapter 2 of his book here: psandman.com/media/Respondi…

You may want to have that PDF file open as you read along.

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