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I found your discussion with Neera on coercion and suicide very interesting. By coincidence, it’s what I happen to be reading and thinking about lately. I incline toward Neera’s view on the matter, possibly a stronger version of that view. …

I have not yet had a chance to watch any of these three videos, but I wanted at the outset to record my deep disquiet at the color of the shirt you’re wearing in the second one. Despite your superficial attempts to disavow sympathy for Marxism, I…

In reply to radgeekdotcom. CORRECTION: Argh, I should have written Cyrus of Alexandria above — not “Cyril.” Mea maxima culpa. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. On counterfactual history, setting Christian providentialism by the wayside in favor of the secular considerations that I actually think affect the question… Zoroastrians, for instance, may not be an inconsequential min…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Separating out into a couple of separate threads, one on Special Providence, the other on counter-factual history… You’re right that I ignored Special Providence as a possibility, but even if I’d taken stock of it, it’s…

In reply to radgeekdotcom. You make a fair point, or bunch of them, but granting all of it requires me to weaken my thesis rather than abandon it, and even the weak thesis cuts against Flanigan’s argument. At a bare minimum, she has to acknowledg…