Advocatus Atheist

Over the past 10 years, I’ve developed the concept of ignosticism into a formal demonstration that can either prove or disprove the existence of God. In a nutshell, ignosticism asks you to describe “God.” Simple enough, right? It’s not as easy as it sounds. When a person says they have a belief in God, what is it they mean by "God"? One might say God is three in one. Another might say none is greater than God. Both are fine definitions. The problem arises when competing definitions for the same God negate each other. Three is not one. So, what is it we are talking about? How can we talk about a self-negating concept? It’s nonsensical. We can’t speak meaningfully of it. Hence, the ignostic holds religious people tend to presume too much about God. The description part is to test the coherence of the object being described. Many theological descriptions of God are sophisticated but incoherent. So, what is it we are talking abou...

I probably should have known better than to get embroiled in a stupid Facebook argument with conservative Trump supporters. Trying to explain to them how Mike Pence as VP, an elected official of the Republic, represents all American citizens and not just conservative Americans was, predictably, all in vain. It is inconceivable to me that the VP can pull a stunt like this and not get ousted from office. It's a complete overreach of the VP's power, not only because he's using the White House and taxpayer dollars to send a message as Mike Pence the VP (not Mike Pence the citizen), not only is his protest of peaceful protesters a denial of their message and what they're protesting in the first place (if he even is aware of what that is), but his staged Diva walk-out, when we know (for a fact) that he was scheduled to be in a different state that same day anyway and so had no intention of watching the game, is such a slight against American values as to be utterly g...