Was Diogenes Woke?

We agree. He was not! 🙂

Jake,

All very well put! Attributing the progress we take for granted to religion and in particular Christianity and Islam is often a Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy. Proximity in time is only one element of causation. David Hume listed a bunch of other elements of causation, but I’ll have to look that up.

You’re right also about the…[Read more]

Reg,

Was Diogenes Woke?

Where does one get that?

Diogenes wouldn’t want the “Free Palestine” crowd pitching tents next to his Grecian Urn home and possibly using it as a public toilet in his absence.

And Diogenes would care whether his lantern put him out of the Net Zero club.

And Diogenes sure wouldn’t want anyone of any identity getting in…[Read more]

Christianity back in the day and Islam in any islamic nation today is the death of individuality and individual rights. The regulation of life is all encompassing and it swallows up all that is decent and desirable in life. Listen to any honest Muslims who have forsaken their cults and you will see i know of what i speak. And everything i have…[Read more]

Simon,

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point. The Western Church, in the medieval period (500 – 1500 AD), dismantled the tribe/clan system of family favouritism, and this led to people becoming more individualist and also promoted the idea of free will (so that people could be judged, presumably). So, Christianity was…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced.

I think she’s right that science has had ideological…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
* (That Christian Apologist Gish Galloping Galoot I once told you about one time even went so far as to claim that the entire Enlightenment experiment and even Atheism were the product of Christianity! That takes some real mental gymnastics!)

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point.  The Western…[Read more]

Yeah Enco, I don’t recall exactly when Americans started loading themselves onto the short busses because I spent my working years with teams of engineers and scientists. I generally thought the average among us had a lick of sense. My grandparents understood that vaccines do save lives and authoritarianism is bad. They knew not to eat so much…[Read more]

Robert,

Yeah, I know, it’s just a false allegory, like most of bible but it gets a point across. Plus, I think any frogs swimming in our little pond will get eaten by a largemouth bass almost immediately. There are a few very large (~10 lbs) channel catfish in there as well. I stocked the pond eight years ago.

Frogs are definitely smarter than m…

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Burst into bull frog? There are a few known cases of it happening.