Hello people! Having meandered around the top bit of the Midwest, I made it to Chicago, Windy City (for its politics, not its wind, though there is literal wind here too) and a little bit of Indiana that is just outside of Chicago. But enough about me: Irreligious - Epistemology and god: Rationalists are...
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When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire…Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable...
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When I was about fifteen, I wrote an essay entitled “The gods are unjust” about Oedipus Rex, the ancient play by Sophocles – it is one of the great Greek Tragedies, replete with chorus and tragic hero. It was my first tragedy. Oedipus was condemned by Apollo’s prophecy, related by an oracle, to kill...
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The Dartmouth Apologia – Christianity and the Modern World - Peter Blair very reasonably explains how current atheists in the public sphere owe Christianity their basic assumptions about morality but refuse to admit it. Slate’s Since you Asked – My advice to you is… just wait – Cary Tennis, advice columnist extraordinaire, writes a...
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and pausing there she looked out to meet the stroke of the Lighthouse, the long steady stroke, the last of the three, which was her stroke, for watching them in this mood always at this hour one could not help attaching oneself to one thin especially of the things one saw; and this thing,...
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Recently, I have been reflecting on the concept of magic – on the face of it, a profoundly un-Christian and un-philosophical subject, but one which I have found to be very instructive.
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“But that which God foreknows, it needs must be, So says the best opinion of the clerks. Witness some cleric perfect for his works, That in the schools there’s a great altercation In this regard, and much high disputation… Whether the fact of God’s great foreknowing Makes it right needful that I do a...
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