Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism, & Secularism

Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism, & Secularism

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): combination of his portrait and death mask (Snark International)

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. I say that it is natural for the heart to love the universal being or itself, according to its allegiance, and it hardens itself against either as it chooses. You have rejected one and kept the other. Is it reason that makes you love yourself? {Pensees - A.J. Krailsheimer translation: Penguin Books, 1966 - #423}

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (Hyper-Linked)

Christian Analyses of Skepticism and Agnosticism
Miracles, the Supernatural, and the Afterlife
Philosophical Arguments For the Existence of God
Scientific and Empirical Arguments For the Existence of God
Postmodernism and Secularism vs. a Christian Worldview
Moral Relativism and its Consequences
The Problem of Evil
Christian Philosophers and Philosophy

Christian Analyses of Skepticism and Agnosticism

The Atheist's Boundless Faith in Deo-Atomism ("The Atom-as-God") (Dave Armstrong and Eric Smallwood) 43K

Philosophy of Science and the Impossibility of Epistemological "Neutrality" and "Objectivity" (Especially Within Materialist or Logical Positivist Presuppositional Frameworks) (edited by Dave Armstrong) 134K

The Defective Father Psychological Theory of Atheism / Christian Emotionalism and Fideism 60K

Was Skeptical Philosopher David Hume an Atheist? 33K

Are all Atheists Utterly "Wicked and Evil"? The Multiple Complex Causes of Atheist Disbelief, Romans 1 and 2, and the Possibility of Atheists' Salvation 20K

Dialogue With an Atheist on the "Problem of Good" and the Nature of Meaningfulness in Atheism (+ Part Two) (The Flip Side of the Problem of Evil Argument Against Christianity) (Dave Armstrong vs. Mike Hardie)

Dialogue With an Atheist on the Epistemology of Disbelief in God and the "Demonization" of Opponents (Including Appendices on Conscience and Disproofs of Worldviews) (Dave Armstrong vs. Sue Strandberg) 187K

Dialogue on the Argument From Non-Belief (ANB) as a Proposed Disproof of God's Existence (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Conifer & Dr. Ted Drange) 174K

Dialogue With an Atheist on the Premises and Axioms of Atheism (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Conifer) 56K

Reply to Bob Hypes' Article: "Religion and How I Lost It" (Dave Armstrong vs. Bob Hypes)

Bob Hypes' Reply to My Critique of His Article: Religion and How I Lost It and My Counter-Reply (Dave Armstrong vs. Bob Hypes) 270K

Reply to "The Problem of Pain and the Egomania of the Psalms" (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski)

Second Reply to Agnostic Ed Babinski on the Supposed Irrationality and Immorality of the Psalms and the Christian Worldview (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski)

How and Why Discussions With Agnostics and Atheists Often (Sadly) Collapse / The Many Logical Fallacies of Ed Babinski and Friends
(Was [and occasionally still touches upon]: Discussion on the Psalms) (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski and Pals) 92K

Round III With Ed Babinski On Profound Christian Ignorance, and Every Subject Under the Sun Except the Topic (The Psalms) (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski)

Postscript to Dialogue With Agnostic Ed Babinski on the Psalms, Etc.: Ed's Attempt to Enlist an Ancient Near East Scholar in Support Backfires (Dr. James Roger Black vs. Ed Babinski; compiled and additional commentary by Dave Armstrong) 46K

Famed Atheist Champion Antony Flew Switches Over to Belief in a Deist God: Studies in Flew's Justification of His Change of Mind and the Predictable Reaction of Atheists 48K

Friendly Discussion on Presuppositions and Basic Differences (Particularly, Hell), With an Agnostic (Ed Babinski)

EXTERNAL LINKS

Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
ORTHODOXY: CHESTERTON ON THE "DELIGHT" OF TRUTH (James V. Schall)
The Everlasting Man (G.K. Chesterton)
Why I Am A Christian (G.K. Chesterton)
Do We Agree? (a debate {1928} between G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc as moderator)
Fr. Copleston vs. Bertrand Russell: The Famous 1948 BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God
Chesterton-Shaw Debate Speaks to the Present Crisis (Ian Boyd)
Pensees (Blaise Pascal)
Summa Contra Gentiles (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
The Journey of the Mind Into God (St. Bonaventure)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
On the Will to Know the Truth: Newman on Why Men of Learning Often Do Not Believe (James V. Schall)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (John Henry Newman)
The Christian Response to Atheism: Dostoevsky (Sr. Joan Gormley)
The Pillars of Unbelief: Kant (Peter Kreeft)
The Pillars of Unbelief: Nietzsche (Peter Kreeft)
The Pillars of Unbelief: Machiavelli (Peter Kreeft)
The Pillars of Unbelief: Karl Marx (Peter Kreeft)
There are no Atheists (James M. Gillis)
From Relativism and Skepticism to Truth and Certainty (Josef Seifert)
Defending the Faith: Christian Apologetics in a Non-Christian World (Symposium with Moreland, Habermas, Oden et al)
Why the Burden of Proof is on the Atheist (Ralph McInerny)
The Psychology of Atheism (Paul C. Vitz Resource Center)
Paul Vitz Research
Imagine There's No Heaven: Contemporary Atheism (Part One) (Bob & Gretchen Passantino)
Religion, Truth, and Value Without God: Contemporary Atheism (Part Two) (Bob & Gretchen Passantino)

Miracles, the Supernatural, and the Afterlife

[See the Philosophy and Christianity page]

Philosophical Arguments For the Existence of God

[See the Philosophy and Christianity and Scientific Materialism, Intelligent Design, & the Cosmological Argument pages]

Scientific and Empirical Arguments For the Existence of God

[see the many papers and links on the Scientific Materialism, Intelligent Design, & the Cosmological Argument and Philosophy and Christianity pages]

The Compatibility of Science and Christianity

[see the many papers and links on the Scientific Materialism, Intelligent Design, & the Cosmological Argument page]

Postmodernism and Secularism vs. a Christian Worldview

Refutation of Atheists' Alleged Biblical "Contradictions" Concerning Salvation and Supposed Annihilationism and Universalism (Dave Armstrong vs. Dr. Ted Drange) 138K

Examination of Atheist Bible Scholarship and Exegesis 41K

Dialogue: Definitions of Christian and Christianity (Dave Armstrong vs. Sogn Mill-Scout) 30K

"Chronological Snobbery": History of Ideas, Socratic Philosophy, Christian Worldview, Scientists and God (Dave Armstrong and John Kress) 132K

Preliminary Replies to Atheists' Questions About Christianity (Particularly the Trinity and Salvation) (Dave Armstrong vs. Dr. Ted Drange) 41K

God as Cosmic Santa Claus and the Bible as Fairy-Tale: Reply to Common Atheist Critiques Concerning the Christian Epistemology of Belief in the Bible and God 20K

Dialogue With a Skeptic of Christianity (Dave Armstrong vs. Charlie Kluepfel)

Dialogue With an Agnostic Concerning Several Common Objections to Christianity in General and Catholicism in Particular (Dave Armstrong vs. Matt Fahrner)

Dialogue With an Agnostic on the "Logic of God," Science, Axioms, and Biases (Dave Armstrong vs. Dr. Jan Schreurs)

A Catholic's "Open Mind" / Epistemology 65K

Romanticism, Wagner, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, and Me (essentially my conversion story from secularized nature mystic and occult devotee to Christianity, with reflections on the relationship of Romanticism to Christianity) 25K

Presuppositions and Patterns of Thought Common to Both Protestantism and Secularism(A Sociological and Philosophical Analysis of the Success and Popularity of Evangelical Protestantism, by an Anonymous Observer)78K

Dialogue With an Atheist on the Relationship of Christianity and Metaphysics to the Scientific Method (+ Part Two) (Dave Armstrong vs. Sue Strandberg) 256K

Dialogue on the Argument From Non-Belief (ANB) as a Proposed Disproof of God's Existence (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Conifer & Dr. Ted Drange) 174K

Secular Humanism and Christian Humanism: Seeking After Common Ground (Dave Armstrong and Sue Strandberg) 55K

Reply to "The Problem of Pain and the Egomania of the Psalms" (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski)

Second Reply to Agnostic Ed Babinski on the Supposed Irrationality and Immorality of the Psalms and the Christian Worldview (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski)

Round III With Ed Babinski On Profound Christian Ignorance, and Every Subject Under the Sun Except the Topic (The Psalms) (Dave Armstrong vs. Ed Babinski)

Silent Night (a "progressive" theological and agnostic re-interpretation and critical commentary)

EXTERNAL LINKS

Christian Intellectuals in the Postmodern Turn (Scott H. Moore)
Christianity and the Humanist Tradition (Christopher Dawson)
Civilization in Crisis (Secularism) (Christopher Dawson)
The European Revolution (17th-18th centuries) (Christopher Dawson)
True and False Humanism (James Hitchcock)
The Road to Modernity (James Hitchcock)
How the World Lost Its Story (Robert W. Jenson)
The Relentless Cult of Novelty and How it Wrecked the Century (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Comparing Christianity and the New Paganism (Peter Kreeft)
A Defense of Culture Wars: A Call For Counterrevolution (Peter Kreeft)
Malcolm Muggeridge's Scourging of Liberalism (Russell Kirk)
Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Christians and Postmoderns (J. Bottum)
The Fruits of Secularism (Paul A. Duffner)
Catholic Encyclopedia: SECULARISM
The Discourse at the Areopagus & the Universality of Truth (Albert Vanhoye)
Christian Faith and Postmodernity
The Crossroads Project: Christianity in a Postmodern Culture
John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism (George Weigel)
At the End of Pragmatism (Glenn Tinder)