Archives of Kyle Cupp
Proposition: Everybody worships something. You sometimes hear theists stating this in response to atheists. Whether or not the statement is true may depend on what is meant by worship. Is there a meaningful definition...
The poor mantis being devoured is thinking to himself, “Could be worse. She could be reading me passages from Twilight.” (Image via)
Proposition: There are knowable absolute moral truths that exist independently of the mind. If true, can they be known absolutely? If not, how does one know they are absolute? If false, is moral relativism...
Conor Friedersdorf summarizes a recent report on the consequences of U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan. While one occasionally hears about nameless dead innocents, the full terror caused by these drones...
Howard Gardner has it that traditional morality, which he defines as the “goods” and “bads” outlined in the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule, provide little if any guidance in contemporary situations. We all...
Not so long ago, I met a young couple who had unexpectedly lost their newborn baby shortly after birth. Upon my first seeing them, their heads were bowed and their eyes were downcast. Both...
Decades after the sexual revolution, many religious conservatives remain fiercely committed to preaching, if not always living, an absolute and absolutist understanding of human sexuality. Mainstream biologists, psychologists and sociologists, building on the science...
I’ve been told that I know shit about theology by one who, being a priest impressively learned in the subject, would know. Nevertheless, I would like to begin weekly posts offering propositions from that...
From Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity: It must not be forgotten that there is a concrete bond between freedom and existence; to will man free is to will there to be being,...
