Over at Evangelical Realism, I’m taking a break from Justin Martyr due to a time crunch at my day job. To fill in the hole, I’ve reposted one of my earlier encounters with presuppositional apologetics, which didn’t turn out at all the way the apologist had hoped. It’s the first two of a series of …
Monthly Archive: September 2012
Sep 14 2012
God’s love
Just have time for a quick one today. So I saw this bumper sticker that said “God’s love never fails,” as though that were some kind of supernatural, awe-inspiring power. But really there’s nothing to it. The reason God’s love never “fails” is because nothing that happens ever counts as a failure on His part. …
Sep 13 2012
Family values?
Years ago I used to be very interested in Mormonism, though that was when I was an evangelical Christian and my main interest was in converting them. But I learned quite a lot about them and even attended a Mormon church for a while (incognito, as it were). One thing I learned was that, according …
Sep 11 2012
Luke 4 (the longer text)
And the devil, taking Jesus up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, “All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give …
Sep 10 2012
Bridges and barricades
Atheists are a pretty diverse group, and maybe absolute unity lies somewhere between unrealistic and undesirable. We have enough in common, though, that it makes sense for us to form a united coalition, and that means being willing to build bridges instead of barricades. In that light, consider the following hypothetical post and comments: POST: …
Sep 09 2012
Bad lip syncing
No, it’s not Bad Lip Reading, it’s this week’s dose of Justin Martyr over at Evangelical Realism.
Sep 08 2012
Atheism+: A legitimate concern
One thing that’s mystified me regarding the Atheism+ movement is why anyone would be against it. I’ve seen and heard about various forms of opposition and/or abuse aimed at trying to kill it off and silence those who speak up about it, but so far I haven’t seen anyone offer a thoughtful and reasonable argument …
Sep 06 2012
Tolerance and justice
In a comment on yesterday’s post, Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort writes: I hate the “intolerance of intolerance is intolerance” meme that’s spread around the religious world. “You can’t be critical of my discrimination because it’s part of my religion and therefore you’re discriminating against my religion and that makes you the bigot, not …
Sep 05 2012
Bishops call religious liberty a threat to religious liberty
Washington state’s four Catholic bishops have released a statement warning that if non-Christians are allowed to engage in non-Christian forms of marriage, religious liberty will suffer. The bishops’ statement, issued Tuesday by the Washington State Catholic Conference, came as Washington-based Expedia became the latest major employer to come out in support of same-sex marriage. In …
Sep 04 2012
The cockroach babies
It’s been a long time since I’ve visited the crew over at William Dembski’s abandoned blog Uncommon Descent, but this post by scordova caught my eye. He’s wrestling with the problem of malicious “designs” in nature, and gets right to the heart of the matter. Can the Intelligent Designer of life create malicious designs? If …
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