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[ Author Bio ]
Are the Gods Apolitical? (1999)
To the extent that loyalty to religious traditions, and appeal to religious authority, are analogous to an appeal to alien political traditions--to that extent a discountenancing of such appeals will be, by parity of reasoning, appropriate within a liberal democracy. Citizens should be free to pursue their religious commitments, so long as those are not incompatible with secular order; but religious reasons as such, not otherwise warrantable, have no place in our political discourse. That is not because they are not "political reasons", but precisely because they are--or are too close to being so. They retain, in spite of their historical divergence from politics, a structurally identical role for appeals to authority, tradition, legal precedent, group solidarity, and the like.
Despair, Optimism, and Rebellion (2005)
In this contribution to an American Philosophical Association symposium on "God, Death, and the Meaning of Life," Evan Fales considers three responses to loss of faith in the Christian God: despair, optimism, and rebellion. Western culture is permeated by belief in an afterlife on religious grounds, shaping these responses in particularly anxious ways. Fales considers both how atheists can respond to the question of the meaning of life, and, in what is surely a surprising direction for some, whether Christianity even has the resources to provide meaning through doctrines as problematic as requiring another to pay for your own sins.
Do Mystics See God? (2002)
If religious experiences are to justify religious belief, such experiences must be cross-checked to be genuinely from God. Most religious experiences cannot be cross-checked. The ones that can be cross-checked are not verified to be genuinely from God.
Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature by Larry Arnhart
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