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What is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).

Like a serpent in a garden, John Fensel has posed an old question in new garb: “Do Moral Obligations really follow from God’s Existence?“ In 1504 words, his answer is “No.” Attempting to answer questions including, “What is obligation?” and “What is moral?”, he neglects the big question: “What is God?” The shorter Westminster Catechism replies, [...]
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Thoughts on O’Donovan’s “The Desire of the Nations”

Around 2 a.m. a month ago, in a smoke-filled hookah bar in Orlando, Florida, I found myself engaged in a conversation about religion and politics with a man who spent his career at the intersection between the two (I count his brief stint as a bar-tender as religious/political work in addition to his more overtly [...]
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Life in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on Logical Fallacies

John and I have been publicly corresponding for five months on a wide variety of issues. Recently, he has waded into economics way over his head, asserting paradoxically that (1) it it the government’s duty to provide a highly regulated sort of currency called food stamps to avoid an imaginary crisis of malnutrition in the [...]
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an error in Charles A Crane’s ‘Christianity and Mormonism’

I am currently reading Charles A Crane’s Christianity and Mormonism, in which Charles A Crane makes his case against Mormonism. On the level I think he is right — that the LDS church makes some highly unlikely historical claims, especially with regard to the Book of Mormon. But I must take exception to something he [...]
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On Francis Schaeffer’s ‘the God who is there’

I saw today that I’d not yet read Schaeffer’s God who is there, so I read it. Related Posts:Christian Reconstructionism Series, Part 2: Francis SchaefferTypos of ‘A Christian Theory of Knowledge’ by Cornelius Van TilChristian Reconstructionism Series, Part 1: Cornelius Van TilLife in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on [...]
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On ‘A Christian Theory of Knowledge’, by Cornelius Van Til

I and a secular friend have been going back and forth on the nature of truth in a debate which, oddly enough, started over schooling. Beneath the issues that conservatives and liberals think they’re battling over, there lies a deeper source of contention: the presuppositions or conceptual frameworks through which conservatives and liberals view the [...]
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the religious status of foreigners in isaiah 19

‘You cross land and sea to make one proselyte . . .’, Jesus said to the scribe and Pharisees. You have heard it said that Judaism is an ethnic religion which does not proselytize, while Christianity is a proselytizing religion which does not recognize ethnicity. The truth is more complicated. And you don’t have to [...]
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Church and State — Two Forces at Odds

I found an interesting article today by Walter Block, a self-proclaimed atheist and a first-rate libertarian scholar, entitled Religion and Libertarianism. In it, Walter Block describes how the harmful influence of Ayn Rand hurt libertarianism by making it almost synonymous with atheism in the minds of her cultish servants followers. Ayn Rand once said that [...]
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the yahwist project

I was watching a documentary on female genital mutilation (FGM) during a class on children’s rights issues worldwide, when I noticed something. Throughout the film, there were two principal forces fighting the cruel practice, and both were unabashedly religious in their approach. The one force was a Muslim doctor whose approach involved breaking down the [...]
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thoughts on jared loughner

Jared Loughner believes that the US government does a great number of evil things, and specifically that our currency system of fiat money is a gigantic rip-off which enriches government and its friends at the expense of everyone else.  I agree.  A few days ago, Jared Loughner shot a Congresswoman and a number of other [...]
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