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