Recent content by Jack Chesterfield

The idea in religion seems to be that I should do or not do something because "God says so." There doesn't seem to be any more sophistication or complexity to it than that. Am I missing something here? Is morality merely a matter of surrendering one's own moral agency and unquestioningly...

Why do we hold religious institutions to such absurdly low standards of morality? Imagine that a daycare center had a pedophile problem, handled it in the same manner as the Catholic Church, and was publicly exposed for doing so. That daycare center would be finished -- and the people who ran...

One of the things that I remember from my twelve years of Catholic schooling was that in order for one to sin, he has to possess full knowledge that what he is doing is an actual sin. This brings me to the Garden of Eden fable. In this famous tale from Genesis, Adam and Eve commit the sin of...