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So President Obama has finally come out in favor of equal civil rights for gays. About damn time, and kudos to him for having the courage to do so ahead of the election instead of waiting until it was “safe” to take a stand. He should have done so years ago, but still, credit where [...]
Archive for the ‘Morality’ Category
Better late than never
May 10th, 2012 
Deacon Duncan 
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Human Rights, Liberty, Morality, Politics, Religion, Secularism, Society 
9 Comments »Making good men evil
April 18th, 2012 Deacon Duncan There’s an interesting thread happening in the comments for my post about God as an abusive husband. One commenter raised a few eyebrows by using strong rhetoric regarding William Lane Craig and his own prospective future vis à vis torment, and others reacted. It was a bit strong for my tastes as well, but I’m [...]
God’s evil addiction
April 4th, 2012 Deacon Duncan There’s an old joke about a woman who keeps hitting herself in the head with a hammer. When they asked, “Why are you doing that?” she replied, “Because it feels so good when I stop!” Yesterday we looked at Mighty Timbo’s story about how God allegedly healed his wife years after a serious car accident [...]
My years in the pro-life movement
March 12th, 2012 Deacon Duncan So Doonesbury is taking on the medical rape bill this week, and there’s all the associated uproar you’d expect. Maybe now would be a good time for me to reminisce about my experiences as a pro-life advocate. This was back during my evangelical Christian days, of course. As a conservative evangelical, I was automatically pro-life, [...]
The biology of morality
March 9th, 2012 Deacon Duncan A recent study suggests that morality may owe more to biochemistry than to authority or social convention. Diverse lines of evidence point to a basic human aversion to physically harming others. First, we demonstrate that unwillingness to endorse harm in a moral dilemma is predicted by individual differences in aversive reactivity, as indexed by peripheral [...]
God loves cheaters
February 28th, 2012 Deacon Duncan You know that old saying, “Cheaters never prosper”? According to a report from Science, that may be just clever propaganda designed to conceal the wealth-producing secrets of the rich. The team’s findings suggest that privilege promotes dishonesty. For example, upper-class subjects were more likely to cheat. After five apparently random rolls of a computerized die [...]
13 words
February 8th, 2012 Deacon Duncan In Ecclesiastes 6:11, we read, “For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?” I’ve spent a number of years of my life studying the Bible, and I’ve come to the conclusion that this verse pretty much sums up the whole thing. You look at most religions, and [...]
Gospel Disproof #34: Progressive sanctification
January 30th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Today’s Gospel Disproof comes (again) from our friend Eric, who writes: Salvation is ALL of grace and none of human merit so there is no grounds for boasting and certainly one is given no reason to think that the unsaved are “ even worse than you”. Eric is partly correct. No matter what you may [...]
Dialogs with Eric
January 23rd, 2012 Deacon Duncan Last week I had a Gospel Disproof on the topic of “salvation by faith,” and a believer by the name of Eric has been kind enough to offer me a Christian response to the points I’ve raised. Since one of the points he raises repeatedly is that I haven’t said enough about certain topics, I [...]
Harmless?
December 28th, 2011 Deacon Duncan “No, gay sex is not harmless. They’ve done scientific studies that show it causes microscopic tears in the lining of the rectum.” “Microscopic?” “Yeah.” “In other words, you can’t even see it?” “Um, well no, I guess not.” “So what’s the big deal? That’s hardly a reason to deny two people the right to marry [...]
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