Month: April 2017

One Christian Worldview? Part 4: Evangelical Denominations

Catholics constituted 20.8% of the adult population in the USA (in 2014, see the Religious Landscape Study), and Christians who belong to Evangelical Protestant denominations constituted 25.4% of the adult population in the USA (in 2014).  So, if we combine Catholics and Evangelicals, they constituted 46.2% of the adult population in the USA (in 2014). One Christian Worldview? Part 4: Evangelical Denominations

The Homeopathic Christ Problem

(A mostly silly puzzle about Holy Communion) The Christian sacrament of Communion can be viewed according to two main competing theoretical perspectives. The first can be called the “symbolic presence” account, according to which the bread and wine are nothing more than symbolic representations of the body and blood of Jesus. On this view, to The Homeopathic Christ Problem

Did Jesus Die on the Cross? Part 2: Finishing Off Geisler’s Case

It is springtime! The sky is blue, and the sun is shining again here in the great and green Northwest. Every year Easter brings life back into me.  I feel born again, inspired and energized to once again attack the beast (i.e. Christianity/religion/superstition).  I might be tilting at a windmill, but I’m delighted to be back Did Jesus Die on the Cross? Part 2: Finishing Off Geisler’s Case

Ain’t No Flies on Elvis

Elvis Presley was born on January 8th in 1935.  If he was alive today, he would be 82 years old.  Elvis died on August 16th in 1977, but many have claimed to have seen Elvis alive since that time.  Such sightings are still being reported: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/578658/elvis-presley-birthday-not-dead-died-alive http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/683314/ELVIS-NOT-DEAD-Graceland-groundsman-filmed-THIS-MONTH-is-King-aged-81 And there is even an Elvis Sighting Society, Ain’t No Flies on Elvis