I am an Ayn Rand fan. Actually I’m an Ayn Rand writing fan. Ayn Rand, the person, was a little crazy. I say this because I don’t want the reader to think I’m becoming a socialist. I’m not, at least not in the contemporary sense. My objective here is to use a major fallacy, in […]
When contemplating the horrors of history (I’m thinking of the Holocaust), we must not fool ourselves into believing it can’t happen here. However, we cannot stop there. We each must have the humility and intestinal fortitude to acknowledge that if it did happen here, we may be the ones pushing the buttons, pulling the triggers, […]
When evil and justice appear in the same title of a book written by a theologian, the reader will probably immediately think ‘final judgment’. N. T. Wrights Evil and the Justice of God is not about that. It’s more about the means of redemption. To me, means are important. I like theology and moral philosophy. […]
Below is a speech by Stefan Molyneux on ethics. Ethics is still a primitive field. I’m not saying being ethical is primitive, but that ethics is grossly underdeveloped as a discipline in relation to other disciplines, especially hard science. Most people form their opinion regarding morality, whether they realize it or not, on their feelings […]
70 years ago today, the Red Army arrived and evacuated the Auschwitz concentration camp, the most notorious of the Nazis’ death camps. As far as tyrannies that slaughter millions go, the Nazi’s are usually at the forefront of the American psyche, responsible for the death of roughly 6 million Jews, not to mention non-Jew dissenters. […]
I recently read Her Gates Will Never Be Shut by Brad Jersak. I first encountered Brad Jersak in Kevin Miller’s movie, Hellbound?. In the documentary, Miller wrestles with doctrines of hell and eschatological judgment. It is mostly comprised of interviews with various influential figures in Western Christianity such as Mark Driscoll, Greg Boyd, Mike Bickle, […]
For a long time, I held the view that there was middle ground between classical theism and open theism. I no longer believe that to be the case. In case the reader may be interested in this topic, I’ll briefly discuss why. Classical theism includes the view that God is immutable, i. e. cannot be […]
The world is much too full of people who too seldomly check for blind spots. If your beliefs and opinions haven’t changed much in the past 5 years, you almost certainly have a common condition known as philosophical stagnation. If you’re suffering from this philosophical dullness, I recommend high doses of metanioa (rethinking). If you […]
I began reading Caleb Miller’s new book, Saving God, this week. I plan to do a more thorough review of it and post it on Amazon as that was the agreement I made by receiving it for free. For now, here are my initial thoughts… In the introduction, Caleb sets forth the foundational premise of […]
It’s that time of year when the world celebrates the Incarnation (and Nikolaos of Myra). After three decades of attending church regularly, I can’t recall ever hearing, in person, a sermon on the Incarnation, the cornerstone dogma of Christian orthodoxy. I see it on doctrinal statements and hear it mentioned occasionally, but usually to avoid […]
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