Author Archives: Bob Felton

Albert the Pious went off today on yet another attack on pragmatism, the philosophical underpinning of science and engineering that makes what once seemed like miracles a commonplace. But perhaps the most important thing for Christians to recognize is that … Continue reading →

Even if there are nuggets of history buried here and there, the gospels do not qualify as history because: (a) they are totally unsupported by contemporary documentation; (b) they were created by unidentified authors decades after the depicted events; (c) … Continue reading →

Lance Wallnau: Our Prayer Changed The Path Of Hurricane Irma Starting last Thursday, right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau streamed a nightly series of videos on Periscope in which he commanded Hurricane Irma to change its projected path away from Florida by … Continue reading →

The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille [William Jennings Bryan]; if it fails, they will devour it. It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of … Continue reading →

The branch of philosophy concerned with what we know, and how we know that we know it, is called epistemology — and the grotesque failure of the Republican Party into madness is at last causing some public discussion of it. … Continue reading →