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The Best Argument For Christianity

In Defense Of Friendly and Agreeable Interactions With Your Political Opponents

Arguments For God Tier-list

Don't Cheer For Luigi Mangione

The Case For Extremely Severe Penalties For January Sixth Insurrectionists

For They Are Not Robots

The Pathological Incuriosity, Ignorance, and Imperiousness of the New Atheists

How Much Does Morality Require You To Give?

I Talked With The Most Prolific Critic of the Anthropic Argument

Advice For The Romanceless

A New Preexistence Theodicy

The Weirdness Argument Against Cancel Culture

Against The Kalam Cosmological Argument For God

Effective Altruism FAQ

Don't Be a Sucker

Be Outrageous So Long As You Speak The Truth

Things That Matter Are Boring

Neil Degrasse Tyson Is Crazy Wrong About Veganism

Christianity Is Right About Sin

I Was Vegan Before I Learned This

True Or False: Creativity Is A More Powerful Force Than Intelligence

The Woke Aren't Woke

The Good "The Good It Promises And The Harm It Does" Promises And The Harm It Does

Nathan Robinson Is Confidently Wrong About Everything

21 Years, 21 Reflections

Debate Tactics Aren't Really A Thing

The Things You Care About Mostly Don't Matter

What Giving To Givewell Prevents

How I Write So Many Articles

There's No Patriarchy

The Republicans Are No Longer Conservative

There Are Philosophical Arguments

The Unspeakable Horrors Beyond Comprehension That We Inflict On Thanksgiving Turkeys

Must We Hurt Even The Little Animals?

Tens Of Millions Of Missing Babies

For Pushing Large Men Off Bridges

It's Easy To Overestimate Outrageous Things Done By Your Political Opponents

Rebutting Every Objection To Giving To The Shrimp Welfare Project

I Published A Paper On Why It's Good To Have Kids If They Live Good Lives

Betting On Ubiquitous Pain

6 Questions Atheists Can’t Answer

Nate Silver Derangement Syndrome

What Happened?

You All Helped Over Half A Billion Shrimp!

The Best Charity Isn't What You Think

Young Liberals Are Depressed Because Of Ubiquitous Political Pessimism

The Christian Case For Animal Welfare

Joe Rogan As The Median Voter

How I Would Like Democrats To Change

How I Learned That You Should Push Children Into Ponds

Crooked LAMESTREAM Media LIES About Philosophy of Mind

Debate With Ape In The Coat About Anthrpics

Don't Freak Out About The Election

Love Your Neighbor Of Opposite Politics

Ten Reasons To Support Harris

Mary's Room Refutes Physicalism

Precisely Defining The Self-Indication Assumption Shows It Is Right

Abolish The Electoral College

Reflections on the Man From the Future

You Were Not Harmed By Past Wrongdoing

Ways The World Is Getting Better

In Defense of Trump Derangement Syndrome

In Defense of Denying Atrocities

Against Shooting Drills

Aren't There Just Obviously Two Genders?

Is Trump Attempting A Coup Disqualifying?

Extreme Suffering On The Farms

Is Income Redistribution Like Friendship Redistribution?

The Horror About Haitians Eating Dogs Show The Incoherence Of Our Attitudes Towards Animals

Trump Attempted A Coup

From Haecceities To God

Why Are So Many Left-Wing Protests So Offputting?

Highlights From "The Most Plausible Explanation Of Why God Allows Evil"

Progressive Myths Book Review

Descartes's Punchy Writing

What Makes You A Bad Person

Why I'm A Molinist

Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Ignorant. They're Bad At Epistemology.

Why I Believe In Objective Morality

Against TJump's Very Crazy Epistemology

What's Up With Hot?

The Most Plausible Explanation Of Why God Allows Evil

Dark Matter

Prolonged Intense Agony

How I Came To Believe In God

Theists Aren't Stupid!

An Inebriated Tommy Blanchard And Tired Bentham's Bulldog Discuss Dualism

The Worst Cosmological Argument Is An Argument For Atheism

Against Critical Theory

Debating Ian Jobling About Free Will And Consciousness

Do Deductive Arguments For God Establish Certainty?

Linkpost September

Rich Lowry Gets Cancelled For Not Saying A Racial Slur

Two Bad Inferences

Am I Racist Review?

Deep Theism

They're Eating the Pets

The Moral Risk Argument Against Meat Eating

Sanewashing The Left

You Probably Don't Know If You're Bad At Philosophy

Freddie DeBoer's Temporal Copernican Principle Implies Early Humans Had Psychic Powers

The Ones Beyond Deference

Chat With Jeff Maurer About Eating Meat, Immigration, Lab Meat, Trump, and Charles Manson

Alice Crary's Embarrassingly Bad Criticisms Of Effective Altruism

Beware Compelling Arguments

Against Literature

The Phenomenal Object Argument

Bubbie

Come Argue About Anthropics Or God

Don't Pattern Match Ideas

My Master Argument For The Self-Indication Assumption Is Even Better Than I Thought

Evaluate The Version Of An Idea That Most Convinces You

Two More Dogmas Of Feminism

Pro-Lifers Shouldn't Be Single-Issue Voters

Paid Subscriber Chat

Two Dogmas Of Feminism

Chatting with Matthew about Utilitarianism

The PEPFAR+Economic Case For Harris

Debating Richard Hanania About Trump V. Harris

Measure Thinkers By Their Best Ideas

Obvious Things You're Not Supposed To Say

What Does The Atheist Have Left?

Hiding In Plain Sight: The Horror Of Animal Farming

How To Get Big On Substack

Contra Hanania On Trump

Arguments vs. Vibes

Chill Out About Political Differences

Compartmentalized Conditionalization Considered Confused

The Psychophysical Theists

A New Argument For Thirding

Factory Farming Is Not Just Bad: It’s the Worst Thing Ever

Bentham's Bulldog Stands With Caplan

The Vitalist Critique Of Effective Altruism Is Terrible

On Being Bad At Math

Eneasz Brodski Makes Silly Mistakes In 'Bentham's Bulldog Makes Silly Mistakes in His "Best Argument For God."'

Invincible Philosophical Ignorance And The Mystery Of Philosophers

A New Cosmological Argument

50 Lifetimes To Babylon

Chat With Richard Chappell

On Eugenics

Ethical Vegetarianism Makes No Sense

Come Argue About God

Bentham's Diary

God Best Explains The World

Neither Master Nor Slave, But Utilitarian

The Resurrection Argument For...Judaism???

Contra Walt Bismarck On Whether I Should Become A Gay Prostitute

Chat With Kryptogal About God And Infinity

The Lives In Reality Caucus

Playing Devil's Advocate Is Good Actually

Kamala Harris Is Unlikely To Win

Paid Subscriber Only Chat

It's Always Revenge

The Drowning Child Argument Is Simply Correct

Why Is Prejudice The Sole Unforgiveable Sin?

Cancel Culture Favors Cowards, Morons, and Hypocrites

Why Eating Meat Is Like Torturing Puppies

Discussing Judaism And Christianity With Tovia Singer

Are These People Sick?

Against Against The Infinite

Theism Has A Super High Prior Probability

My Intellectual Autobiography Updated

Low Decoupling And The Trump Shooting

Critical Theory Is Just Word Games

Biden Isn't Going To Drop Out

Times The World Almost Burned

Philosophy Has A Conformism Problem

Advanced Footage Of The Next Trump Biden Debate

In Defense Of The Casual Polymath

Steelmanning Judaism

Take The Giving What We Can Pledge

Beware The Man Of One Expert

Why Don't Christians Make This Argument More?

Explaining My Paper Arguing For The Self-Indication Assumption

God, Repugnance, And Recurrence

Arguments In Philosophy Are Mysterious Like Arguments In Math

What Is An X Is Almost Always A Cheap Gotcha

Paid Subscriber Video Call

Social Justice Rhetoric Is Often A Smokescreen For Being A Jerk

How I—And Many Others—Were Duped

Rebutting All The Objections To Immigration With Alex Nowrasteh

The General Pinker Principle

Arguing About Effective Altruism With Tracing Woodgrains

Addressing My Critics On HBD

Universalism: A Comprehensive Defense

Gender Double Standards

Ask Me Anything + Paid Subscriber Rewards

The Best Argument For God

Men And Women

Thoughts On HBD

How To Make The World Boring And Incurious

Most Victims Of Woke Cancel Mobs Are Woke

When Does Believing False Things Make You Bad?

People Mostly Don't Care About Morality

Disproving The Self-Sampling Assumption Using Horrifying Human Lobster Combos

Be Proud To Be An Effective Altruist

Against The Culture Transplant

Against Elegant Political Models

Ideas From High School Debate So Bad I Couldn't Make Them Up

Reflections On Manifest

Our Intuitions About The Criminal Justice System Are Screwed Up

Wokeness And Climate Change

There's Free Will

84 Controversial Views

Science And Religion

Breaking The Fourth Wall

Islam Is Very Implausible

Concrete Ways To Make Interesting Friends

Educational Polarization Doesn't Work How You Think

Linkpost May

Why Lyman Stone's Criticism of Effective Altruism Is Bad

Bismarck's Bullshit

Speedrunning Anthropics

Beefing With Bismarck

How To See If A Field Is Serious

Young People On Substack

Criticisms Of Effective Altruism Are Obviously Motivated By People Not Liking Individual Effective Altruists

Against Political Shame

The Problem For Right-Wing Elites

The Perfection Problem For Theism

Why Care About Anthropics?

Shut Up About Slave Morality

Depolarizing Phantasmagoria

It's Hard To Think The Bible Is Infallible When You Read It

It's Bad That There Are Incentives To Publish Boring Papers

The Rabbithole Goes Both Ways

Why There's Evil

A Writer's Best Articles Are The Least Clever

The Torture Party

God Exists

The Fine-Tuning Argument Simply Works

Cancel Culture Is A Tax On Being Interesting

Take the Bentham's Bulldog Survey!

In Defense Of Luxury Beliefs

Noem and Factory Farming

It Matters If Abortion Is Murder

10 Ways God Can Be Simple

There Aren't Naive Views

Ron Desantis's New Lab Meat Ban: Evil and Stupid

Am I An Utter Philistine On Account of My "Neo Utilitarianism?"

Palestine Protestors Won't Explain What They Want But Will Explain Why They Won't Explain What They Want

Why Won't The Far-Left Argue?

Steelmanning Christianity

Shooting The Messenger

The Neoneoplatonic Argument For God

Linkpost April

The Badness Rate of Apparent Bads Is ~.5

Losing Faith In Contrarianism

The Mathematical And Moral Case For You Becoming A Paid Subscriber

Contra Truth Teller on the Anthropic Argument For Theism

Handwaving Morality

Taboo Morality

Moral Progress Has Always Pissed Us Off

If You're Going To Eat Animals, Eat Beef and Dairy

Inspired By The OJ Trial

Popular Dumb Red Pill Contrarians

Gambling With Goff

I Flew To Tennessee To Debate Bryan Caplan About God. Here's What Happened.

Opening Statement Caplan Debate

How Social Media Destroyed My Generation's Mental Health

God and Man at Vanderbilt

There's a Multiverse

Reviving The Argument From Biological Design

Contra Huemer On The Ontological Argument For Moral Realism

Contra Caplan Concerning Fine-Tuning

Children Are Nihilists

Why Criticisms of Effective Altruism Suck

Chomsky, Yudkowsky, Yarvin

On Leif Wenar's Absurdly Unconvincing Critique Of Effective Altruism

Weintraub Disproves The Main Halfer Argument

Ω

Taking the Phil Papers Survey

Prime Platonism: Why I Only Believe Prime Numbers Are Real

The Closed Eyes Argument For Thirding

The Beauty of SIA

Against Biting The Bullet On Adam and Eve

How To And How Not To Debunk Contrarian Theories

Several New Arguments For The Self-Indication Assumption

81-Days of Failure

Tara Vander Dussen Loves to Lie About Factory Farms

No, The Camp David Proposal Didn't Cantonize The West Bank.

Reflections on my Conversation With James Fodor

Meat Is Murder

The Self-Indication Assumption's Narrative

Why The Insects Scream

Linkpost March

In Which I Rant About Albert Camus

I Was Wrong About Christianity

The View of Race Held by Many Progressive Academics is Broken

Elga Proved 1/3

The Self Indication Assumption Works As Well As Effective Contraception

Contra Yglesias on Pharmaceutical Profits

Why Christianity Doesn't Make Sense

No, Cannibalism Is Obviously Not Being Normalized

Why Not Make Electrons in Love?

From The Failure Of The Failure Of Contraception To The Failure Of The Failure of SSA (And Other Alternatives To Sia)

An Even Deeper Calvinism

No More Birthdays

Debating Bitchspot Blog Part 2: My Rebuttal to His Rebuttal to Me

Debate With Bitchspot Blog About Theism Part 1: My Opening Statement

Beware Directional Drift

SIA and Ethics

Defending Olum Against Bostrom and Ćirković

Contra Circovic on SIA

Two Fallacies That Aren't

Boring Radicals

Against The Idea That The Media Should Fawningly Report On Those Who Set Themselves On Fire

Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Ignorant. They're Bad At Epistemology.

Investigating Christianity Part 3: Group Visions, Naturalistic Explanations, and Theistic Explanations?

Investigating Christianity Part 2: Verifying The Minimal Facts

Investigating Christianity Part 1: Liar, Lunatic, Lord, Legend

Against My Case For Hedonism About Well-being

I Can Talk Backwards

Theists Should Obviously Be Effective Altruists and Vegans

For an Unrestricted Self-Indication Assumption

How to Think Like a Philosopher

From the Falsity of Skepticism to Theism

Undiscontinuing This Substack

The Anthropic Argument For Theism

Harmonious and Disharmonious Strength

The Argument From Weird Metaphysics Against Theism

God, Michael Huemer, and String Theory

Answers to Job

Comparing Theism and Naturalism

A Version of the Contingency Argument I Don't Hate

A Theistic Theory of Everything

Two Pieces of Not Quite Poetry

From Infinite Ethics to God

How To—and How Not To—Solve the Problem of Evil

The Evil God Challenge

Essence, Energies, and Excellence

Why I Disagree With Gavin Ortlund About Hell

Why I Don't Buy The Moral Argument

The Parable of the AI Genie

The Argument From Nomological Harmony is Ridiculously Convincing

The Evidence For And Against Theism

Two Dozen Or So Thoughts About Theism

A Crisis of Faithlessness

Three Niche Philosophical Objections To Christianity

Are The Ancients Wise?

Twitter Is Digital Cocaine

Contra Huemer on Whether You Need Souls to Explain Fine Tuning

Reflections on the Richard Yetter Chappell vs. Dustin Crummett Debate

A New Argument For God: The Argument From Modal Limits