Thomas Paine on the Immorality of the (Alleged) Virgin Birth
The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene. It gives an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost, under the impious pretense (Luke, chap. I., ver. 35), that “the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, … Thomas Paine on the Immorality of the (Alleged) Virgin Birth
Good and bad ways of influencing the beliefs of others
Ordination of Women Priests
I find it fascinating to follow in-house disagreements among Christians, such as the disagreement about whether women can be ordained as priests. At First Things, David Mills blogs about a video entitled, “Ordain a Lady.” This led me to do a search on the topic, “Why won’t the Catholic church ordain women?” That led me … Ordination of Women Priests
Ontology 101 part 2
The following three criteria can be used to generate a set of categories of kinds of entities: C1. Is this entity a natural entity? C2. Is this entity able to affect nature? C3. Is this entity a person? I modified the second criterion slightly, to avoid dragging in a fourth criterion: (C2*) Is this entity … Ontology 101 part 2
Ex-Apologist on Craig’s “Holy Spirit Epistemology”
This isn’t brand new; I just saw it mentioned on EA’s post listing his favorite posts of 2012 and I don’t remember seeing this before. EA criticizes Michael Martin’s objections to Craig’s Holy Spirit epistemology and then offers his own objection. LINK