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The Temperature of Hell

June 22nd, 2009 · 8 Comments

This is the second of two posts, much delayed, on the subject of Hell. The first may be found here:    ♦ The Death of Hell     On an earlier post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed this question: I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man [...]

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Truth & Consequences

April 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

In the trial of Jesus, ancient texts have recorded this exchange: Pilate replied, “You are a king then?” “You say that I am a king, and you are right,” Jesus said. “I was born for that purpose. And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth recognize that what I [...]

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Gnostic Fascism

March 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Courtesy of the always-excellent blog What’s Wrong With The World, we read this gem about the philosophy and worldview of our current educational system: It seems to me that the regulative idea that we — we…liberals, we heirs of the Enlightenment, we Socratists — most frequently use to criticize the conduct of various conversational partners [...]

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Absolute Fools

August 16th, 2008 · 12 Comments

A recent post on the worldview of contemporary postmodern liberalism was kindly linked by Gerard Vanderleun over at American Digest. In his link post, a commenter left the following missive: The essay would have value if there were absolutes. Never have been, never shall be. Our standards of behavior are devised by us, and used [...]

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The Problem of Miracles

September 22nd, 2007 · 10 Comments

A commenter in a previous post on the subject of faith and reason made the following observation: The most Christian apologetics can accomplish is to show faith in Divine revelation to be a reasonable proposition. I would say the challenges presented by various content in the Holy Scriptures are significant. As you pointed out, “…we [...]

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Reason & Revelation

July 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments

We’ve been mud-wrestling about scientific materialism vs. faith recently — especially with that peculiar disdain and condescension secular scientists often exude toward those foolish enough to believe in a divine Creator. One commenter named Mark, of the latter persuasion, started off reasonably enough but in short order fell off the cliff, ranting about my weaving [...]

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A Fascinating Futility

July 18th, 2007 · 18 Comments

I love this article, from the Seattle PI, in July 1940, on some “unusual” behavior on the just-completed Tacoma Narrows bridge — the same bridge which collapsed spectacularly 4 months later. I especially love this part: Although the bridge is said to be utterly safe from an engineering standpoint, vertical movements along the center suspension [...]

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On Faith II: The Transaction

January 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

In my prior post on the subject of faith, I addressed some of the tensions between faith and reason, pointed out the tightly-constricted world of those who embrace the material while a priori excluding the transcendent, and attempted to make the point that faith of any kind — be it as simple as starting your car [...]

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