A Defense of Social Labels
Are you a Democrat or Republican? A Christian, or maybe Muslim? An Atheist? What’s your stance on abortion: Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? What’s your ethnicity? Labels for political parties, religions, races, […]
Author Archives: Paul Chiariello
Humanists & Atheists Represent at People’s Climate March
Atheists and Humanists care about social and environmental justice! A surprising statement for far too many Americans. Do atheists even care about anything besides internet shouting matches? Isn’t Separation of […]
Is Humanism a Religion?
Like other difficult questions, there are no clear answers to the old debate of whether or not Humanism is a religion. Here the crux of the problem seems to stem […]
Buddhism & Humanism: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Part 1
Buddhism and Humanism are two geographical sides of the same philosophical coin. They’re twins with the same DNA, separated at birth, and brought up by different parents. The same dish […]
Why is Literature Important? The 3 Social Functions of Fiction
What’s the purpose of literature? Of fiction? Of course it’s enjoyable – it sweeps our emotions this way and that and allows us to ‘experience’ so much beyond our everyday life. […]
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pluto, Lovecraft, & the ‘REAL’ Reason Behind Cosmos
OK… OK… Hear me out on this one: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an alien, or at very least working for an alien race known as the Mi-go who are described […]
3 Reasons Why God is a Nihilist; Or, Showing Sympathy for God
I want to start with a disclaimer and a qualification. First, this post isn’t about bashing God. This post is about understanding humanity. It’s about finding joy as flourishing individuals […]
The 6 Ways Altruism Could Have Evolved: Part 2, Commitment & Sex
In my first post in this three part series I focused on the first 2 of 6 ways – reciprocity and kin selection – that evolution by natural selection without […]
The 6 Ways Altruism Could Have Evolved: Part 1, Kinship & Reciprocity
I’m getting pretty tired of hearing Ayn Rand fanatics, economics undergrads and those who misinterpret the ‘selfish’ gene talk about how egoistic the human race is and how the existence of […]
3 Explanations of the Groundings of Naturalistic, Non-Theistic Ethics
In a previous post about Cultural Relativism I proposed 4 arguments for relativism and then argued that none of them really work. It’s not that I had any arguments for […]
