“If there is no God, Murder Isn’t Wrong” So says the religious conservative radio talk show host and author Dennis Prager in a PragerU video viewed by 4.5 million people. I rebutted Prager in a studio debate hosted by Dave Rubin for his Rubin Report show, in which I made the case that rejecting “Divine…

Our relationship to pleasure has been tormented since the serpent appeared in Eden, right after the repeated affirmation of the goodness of creation. How are we to look at trees that are good for food, a delight to the eyes, and desired to make one wise? Such trees lie in the midst of paradise, always…

“God saw that it was good.” As reported by Saint Augustine, the Manichees latched onto the peculiarity of this refrain in the opening chapter of Genesis to criticize the received Christian doctrine of creation. Read in a certain light, it seems to suggest that either God didn’t know what he was going to make before…