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Folk wisdom and the tyranny of the experts
[updated below] I’ve been thinking about birth a great deal lately. This is likely because birth in my family is just around the corner. Our second is due in July. In any case, all this birth-thinking...
View ArticleProof of God, continued
If God cannot prove His omnipotence (or infinity) to human beings because they are neither omnipotent or omniscient or infinite, couldn’t God simply make all human beings into omniscient, omnipotent,...
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The Party of Theocracy
As of last week, we all know that Christine O’Donnell doesn’t much care for separation of church and state. As far as surprising campaign knows goes, that’s near the very bottom of the list, somewhere...
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Intellectual Property, Abstract v. Natural Right, Part IV
The fourth post in a series. In post I, we outlined a 10,000 – okay, 100,000 – foot view of the legal history of intellectual property in law. In post II, we covered some of Hegel’s writings from...
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Some Underwhelming Reflections on “3/11”
Sunday was the one-year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that killed 20,000 people, and I feel I kind of owe it to myself and others to share my thoughts. I haven’t really gleaned any...
View ArticleCan We Have Post-Modern Faith?
A new study out of the University of Chicago shows, in its words, a “modest” decline of belief in God globally, with dramatic variations among individual countries. I don’t want to argue about the...
View ArticleAvengers, Culture, Wackadoodle, and Weekend Open Thread
It just means that my head and my heart tell me it’s 1945. They tell me that when I switch on the radio, it should take a minute to warm up and music should come out, not noise and foul language. They...
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Many of You Are Going to Hell
Most of you, most likely. So implies warnings attributed to Christ. So suggests the beliefs of saints Gregory, Anselm, Augustine, Jerome, and many others. So implies Patheos writer Fr. Dwight...
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The “Feminized” Jesus
Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin, now with the Family Research Council, wants to be like the Jesus who was a “man’s man,” who had “big, bulging biceps” and “smelled bad.” Nothing is...
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In Which I Lead Astray
I wouldn’t call writing a careless enterprise. Every writer has obligations–some particular, some general: to be honest, to be truthful, to communicate in good faith. In this sense, every writer...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins on the Emptiness of Theology
Again accused of ignorance of theology. But what is there in “theology” to be ignorant ABOUT? Tell me 1 theological fact & I’ll learn it. — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) December 24, 2013 I...
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