Tag: christianity
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Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has a powerful essay at Touchstone entitled The Pagan Public Square. He argues, “Today little effort is made by secular liberals (or “progressives,” as many prefer to…
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This scene where an unbelieving atheist psychiatrist encounters the demonic, is from the 2023 movie Nefarious – a powerful story about evil from the Christian worldview. There is much transcendent truth in this movie . . . truth that an unbelieving culture mocks and rejects. As our culture freefalls into…
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Given the state of public education, I suspect many young people have no idea who the Marquis de Sade is. (The word “sadism” derives from his name.) He was the first person in modern times to write openly about abortion and affirm it. As Davidson notes in Pagan America, Sade’s…
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Camus is famous for espousing that “Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted”, echoing the nihilistic worldview of Nietzsche. This is the perspective at the heart of paganism – the belief that nothing is true (it’s all relative) and everything is permitted. In his milemarker book “Pagan America, The Decline of…
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was not a Christian; he lived from 106 BC to 43 BC, long before Christianity emerged. He was a Roman statesman, lawyer, philosopher, and orator who adhered to the religious and philosophical beliefs of ancient, pagan Rome. He is famous for characterizing religion as either “nothing at…
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There is an interesting article here entitled “Engineers For The Gospel.” It’s worth reading in entirety. Engineers tend to make good apologists. They think logically, are practical and deal with certainty. They can self-teach new things. They know what they believe and why they believe it. They know that ideas…
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+ bayes theorem, bible, christianity, engineers, faith, mathematics, Occam’s Razor, philosophy, reason, religion+
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There is a well-written, insightful article here on the sexual chaos spreading like a cancer throughout our culture. The observation that “she was made for it” is a clear reference to the Natural Law (Romans 2:14-15). The Natural Law is an increasingly important element today of apologetics; defying it is…
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Is it possible that evil actually presents a powerful argument for the very existence of God? Can the existence of evil be used, in the words of Anselm, “to shatter the rigid resistance of unbelievers?” Philosopher Gregory Ganssle acknowledges that evil seems to supply evidence against the existence of God,…
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+ Abductive Argument, Anselm, Athenagoras, christianity, Christus Victor, CS Lewis, Dualism, Evidential Problem of Evil, Evil, Existential Problem of Evil, god, Good, Gustav Aulen, Logical Problem of Evil, Materialism, natural law, Naturalism, Skeptical Theism, Theodicy, worldview+
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The book Jesus, The Great Philosopher: Rediscovering the Wisdom Needed for the Good Life by Jonathan Pennington, is a worthwhile read—especially for young people who are struggling with the philosophical meaning of life and are attracted to other philosophies. In that book, Pennington asserts that “Only humans die by suicide”…
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I was asked to reply to this post entitled “My reply to “Five Reasons to Doubt the Resurrection by Matthew Hartke, Debunked”. This is the first and last time I will respond to anyone that does not have the respect and integrity to identify themselves and provide some background information.…
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Christian Apologetics 