Last time: LOVE: One of the “True” Human Prejudices Now, the Conclusion What I try to do is take content rich theological ideas and reimagine them in a secular context without the superstition. One concept is that Jesus is the incarnation. Let’s think about that in the context of the Greek notion of “theos” or … (2) LOVE: Jesus the Beloved (Agapetos) and Secular Theology

“I don’t want clever conversation.  I never want to work that hard.  I just want someone I can talk to.  I want you just the way you are.” (Billy Joel, “Just The Way You Are”) Kevin Iannucci shown above. The actor has starred in a number of films and TV shows. The title of this … LOVE: One of the “True” Human Prejudices

I’d like to do a second post today to address something Republican Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis said on Fox News the other day. Let’s argue this way: Unfortunately for Swinburne, what one person finds highly aesthetically pleasing and/or arousing may for another person be inert (like objectophilia) or repulsive (like a scat fetish).  This is … Dr. Richard Swinburne sneaking in God with the popular Argument From Beauty, and my Poop Defense

“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter” (Plato) Plato doesn’t mean here that a prerequisite for learning philosophy is math, rather Mathema means what is eminently learnable, and so we speak of polymaths.  For, in order for me to encounter the triangle as the figure that it is, I must have the rule before my … Traditional Proofs For The Immortality Of The Soul: RECOLLECTION

Fundamentalist Preacher Under Fire for Suggesting Public Executions for Parents Who Affirm Trans Children. Baptist preacher Jason Graber says “And so there should be no excuse to not put these people (LGQBT) to death—no excuse whatsoever.” See article here

Previously: General Interest Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction To Derrida/Levinas On Ethics / Religion (part 1) General Interest Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction To Derrida/Levinas On Ethics / Religion (part 2) Now, the conclusion, What I tried to do with this introduction was present the theologically charged postmodernism of Derrida and Levinas with the hope we can ignore the … CONCLUSION, General Interest Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction To Derrida/Levinas On Ethics / Religion (part 3/3)

Last time: General Interest Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction To Derrida/Levinas On Ethics / Religion (part 1) Now, In the western philosophical tradition, Greeks such as Aristotle really emphasized an ethics of self-realization and did not emphasize my self-sacrifice to love and serve the needy other. In the preamble last time we talked about a loving, forgiving … General Interest Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction To Derrida/Levinas On Ethics / Religion (part 2)

Jacques Derrida Emmanuel Levinas In my previous project I looked at some of the key philosophical issues around Christian Origins. The conclusion was that a Moral Influence interpretation of the Cross can counter a Penal Substitution one. The two key sections were about Luke-Acts with Ehrman and Goicoeceha. We read: LUKE (Ehrman) ACTS (Goicoechea) So, … General Interest Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction To Derrida/Levinas On Ethics / Religion (part 1)