Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My Australian friend “Nodrog,” has been thinking about God’s role in a civilized world and, especially in America. Here’s what he has to say. The predicament of the US at the moment seems to be the best argument for a belief in God yet presented. I’ve gone right up to
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There’s nothing like trying to find a good synagogue to teach you that, when religion seeks meaning in pop culture not God, it no longer serves mankind. Would any of you argue with me if I opened this post by saying that traditional religion is under attack in the West?
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Modern astrophysics is a faith just as surely as traditional religion is — but the astrophysicists are too arrogant to admit to that fact. Regular readers know that a troll came through here this past weekend castigating religious believers as idiots and wrapping himself in the scientifically pure flag of
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We’re told atheism is a rational response to the Bible’s factual failures. That’s a cover story. Atheism is really about an illusory freedom from Big Rules. I’ve been thinking a lot about aggressive atheism. Or put another way, I’ve been wondering why atheists are so determined to erase God from
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Talking to my child and reading about a friends’ child, left me wondering whether it’s enough to believe in God without God also believing in you. For many decades, I’ve counted among my friends a married couple made up of two of the nicest, most decent people in the world.
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If Bill Clinton and Al Gore couldn’t do it, then no one can. A Leftist Facebook friend posted an article from The Hill with a lede saying that Donald Trump “floats rolling back food safety regulations.” The implication, obviously, is that in Trump’s America, we’re all going to die from
Continue readingMy very strong sense is that the shutdown will reveal how much of our federal government is inessential. I’m not the only one who feels this way. And no wonder, because the shutdown reveals waste everywhere. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Monopolies are invariably poorly managed and unchecked bureaucracies invariably
Continue readingThere’s a guy where I exercise who’s nice, but I’ve never really warmed up to him. He’s not part of the ownership or the management team, so it’s never really mattered to me what I think of him. Last week, though, I discovered that my subconscious might have been sending
Continue readingWhen I was young, I was an atheist, in that I didn’t believe in anything at all. As I’ve grown older, however, I find that I cannot sustain a belief in nothing. Interestingly, my belief that there is some intelligent or design force out there that is infinitely greater than
Continue readingMy (perhaps simplistic) sense of post-Pagan monotheism, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, is that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. He is bigger than mere humans can comprehend and He works in ways too mysterious for human comprehension. To the extent things are incomprehensible — whether evil, or deviations from the
Continue readingToday at lunch, Don Quixote and I ended up talking about predestination and free will. Along the way we touched upon whether prayers are necessary (if God is omniscient, doesn’t he already know what we want?) and funerals (definitely for the living, although one doesn’t want to disrespect the dead).
Continue readingIt’s always interesting to hear my husband, a militant atheist, and me, a respectful agnostic/atheist, talk about the Bible to the kids. Today, my husband tackled the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. He told the kids that the whole point of the story is to remind religious people that
Continue readingThe Reluctant Scribe is my Dear Friend, and I am his. I may not be blessed with faith, but I am blessed with friends. All of which means that I can only hope that the Abou Ben Adhem approach to God works for me.
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Continue readingLongtime readers know that one of my favorite book series is C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. In the Narnia series, my favorite book has come to be The Last Battle — which is the Biblical end of the world, Narnia style. Within that book, my favorite scenes take place after the
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