Archive for the ‘ Religion ’ Category
An interesting thought that has always struck me about framing the world in terms of good and evil is that “black and white” moral perspectives constrain the moralizer into viewing all individuals (and their decisions!) as essentially partisan. The most obvious problem with this ideology manifests itself when a moral or ethical issue is composed [ READ MORE ]
There exists an interesting contradiction that I’ve recently seen emerging in the world of religious debate. If I were to formulate the core evangelical position as a proposition, it would look something like this: A god who would let us prove his existence would be an idol, but individuals ought to believe in God because [ READ MORE ]
There is a certain sort of ideology which views belief as a fully conscious choice. That is to say, there are those who believe that a person could potentially wake up one morning and make the fully conscious choice to believe that elephants can fly (should it suit their fancy to believe such a thing). Belief, in this [ READ MORE ]
As anyone who has studied the scripture knows, divine commands found in the Bible are often easily confused with human traditions that have simply been recorded in the Bible as well. Someone of simple-mind, however, would make no effort to puzzle out the difference between the two, and so would make the assumption that everything [ READ MORE ]
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