Are Religious People or Secular People More Ethical?
In this video, a sociologist shows that on issue after issue (eg Racism), secular people take a more ethical stance than strongly religious people. For example, the more religious someone is, the less likely they are to believe climate change science or to do anything about it. Stay through to the end of the video … Are Religious People or Secular People More Ethical?
Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #14 (Last Words)
WHERE WE ARE The Christian apologists Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli presented nine objections against the Swoon Theory in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics (published in 1994). I have carefully analyzed those nine objections and then carefully evaluated them. I concluded that each of those nine objections against the Swoon Theory FAIL. So, Kreeft and Tacelli FAILED to … Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #14 (Last Words)
Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #13 (Other Writers)
WHERE WE ARE The Christian apologists Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli presented nine objections against the Swoon Theory in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics (published in 1994). I have carefully analyzed those nine objections and then carefully evaluated them. I concluded that each of those nine objections against the Swoon Theory FAIL. So, Kreeft and Tacelli FAILED to … Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #13 (Other Writers)
Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #12 (Paul’s Conversion)
WHERE WE ARE The Christian apologists Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli presented nine objections against the Swoon Theory in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics (published in 1994). I have carefully analyzed those nine objection and then carefully evaluated them. I concluded that each of those nine objections against the Swoon Theory FAIL. So, Kreeft and Tacelli FAILED to … Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #12 (Paul’s Conversion)
Lamb of the Free (conclusion)
I come to the end of blogging through the first half of “Lamb of the Free” which looks at OT sacrifices. We saw that while the day of atonement/decontamination was basically a factory reboot of the sanctuary. However, major moral sin couldn’t be addressed through purgation, and so actually contaminated the land itself. Once the … Lamb of the Free (conclusion)
Lamb of the Free (10)
One of the key takeaways from Rillera is that kipper is about the individual doing their part to help decontaminate the holy place from contamination, not an animal substituting for the individual. We read as an analogy to a child taking care of a pet: Blood here is not connected to death as per substitutionary … Lamb of the Free (10)
Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #11 (Deceptive Jesus)
OBJECTION #11 AGAINST THE SWOON THEORY In his book The Son Rises (originally published in 1981, I will use the re-published edition from 2000; hereafter: TSR) the Christian apologist William Craig makes an objection against the Swoon Theory that does not correspond to any of the nine objections raised by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli … Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #11 (Deceptive Jesus)
Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #10 (Jewish Thought)
CRAIG’S OBJECTIONS TO SOME VERSIONS OF THE SWOON THEORY In Reasonable Faith (3rd edition, 2008, hereafter: RF), the Christian apologist William Craig raises an objection against the Swoon Theory that is different than any of the nine objections raised by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics. According to this objection, … Careful Analysis of Objections to the Swoon Theory: Objection #10 (Jewish Thought)
RIP Daniel Dennett
We lost philosopher and major secular activist Daniel Dennett today. RIP
Lamb of the Free (9)
As I’ve been reading along the author’s study of sacrifice in the old testament, both of purification and atonement, what is clear with atoning sacrifices the issue isn’t the salvation of the individual who sinned, but rather sin was a aerial miasma thought to contaminate the holy place and the land which could prevent God … Lamb of the Free (9)