Monthly Archives: November 2009
Disease & My Luddite Son
The Luddite Fallacy & Economics The Luddite fallacy is the belief that labor-saving technologies cause unemployment. The fallacy of this belief is that though indeed labor-saving technology does take away someone’s job, it also creates many more jobs to compensate … Continue reading
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Peeing Epiphany
In the Summer of 1975 I was in Europe. I visited Francis Schaeffer’s L’Abri community in Switzerland and had been disappointed by the intellectual Christianity I found there . So I threw out my thumb and hitched slowly from Europe … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Events, Personal
Conze on Doctrine
Edward Conze was a Buddhist scholar (1904-1979) with a fascinating history (see the Wiki link). I have a bit in common with this fellow. He was a Christian in his youth, embraced Marxism and later, leaving both, studied Buddhism. The … Continue reading
Filed under Buddhism, Christianity, Philosophy, Religion
Making Millennialism Work for You
Many Christians believe that 1,000 years of peace will come just before the Final Judgment when God destroys the earth. This doctrine is called “Millennialism”. The foundation of all Christian Millennialism is based on Messianic Prophecies in the Hebrew bible … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Philosophy, Religion, Theology
Eschatology
I made the Christian Eschatology charts below to use as a reference in future posts. Hopefully I have improved upon other on-line charts. Please remember, each model of eschatology has several variants so I couldn’t list them all. This diagram, … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Philosophy, Religion, Theology
Skeptics converted to Theists !
“Peoples’ beliefs are not the issue, its the way we relate to those beliefs” – Derren Brown, Illusionist Superstitious thinking can harm us especially when using them to make important life decisions. Many of my posts emphasize that more important … Continue reading
Filed under Atheism, Christianity, Religion, Science
Theological Roots of Pentecostalism – Book Review
Just as religious folks can be divided into sects by their theologies, so I often wonder what a natural taxonomy of Atheists would look like. I imagine one test for a certain subspecies of Atheists would be to see if … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Religion
Theological Primping & Beliefism
This morning I listened to Christians debating each other about the Calvinism vs Arminian theologies of salvation (yeah, I know, I need to get a life !). I don’t recommend the lectures, but here they are. Below are some of … Continue reading
Filed under Atheism, Christianity, Philosophy, Religion
Personality Spectrums
Many personality traits vary over a spectrum and are not simply on-or-off traits. I thought illustrating multiple spectrum-traits as volume controls such as are found on a sound board would be educational. Here, for example, is my personality based on … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Religion
The Evangelism Cure
I just read an excellent article by Peter Rollins called “Evangelism will change the world“. Where Pete challenges his Christian readers (and others) to be evangelized instead of the normal call to go out and evangelize. Peter is a … Continue reading
Filed under Atheism, Christianity, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Religion
Kabir’s Dead Body
“I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am I! I am this body, a play Of five elements; a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.” – Kabir (1440 – 1518) Kabir was an Indian mystic composer … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Hindu, Islam, Religion
Atonement Theology
Boy, I am naive ! I did not know that Christian Theologians had invented at least eight Atonement Theories. Atonement theories are theological speculation about what was accomplished by Jesus’ death and resurrection. When I was a Christian I apparently … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Religion, Religious Dialogue
Ragtime Jesus & Atheist Faith
Ian, a secular Bible scholar and a treasured commentator on this site, gave me permission to reproduce a comment he posted on another site. I have given his comment a fun title and made a pic to accompany it. His … Continue reading
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Faith Defined
I tire quickly of word arguments and one of the most common between atheists and religious folks is over the word “faith”. Come on folks, it is just a word. Words are created by humans to facilitate communication. Words depend … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy
