When I was a child, I never concluded that my parents did not exist because pain was part of my life. Now, the unbeliever might say that I could verify their existence through the lens of the five senses whereas with God I cannot. This leads me to ask which came first, the denial of God’s existence after a painful experience or a “simple” deduction of empirical evidence before? I ask this because it is largely unnoticed that we are always met with the emotional content of a conversation long before any formal logic is ever applied, as if to say this could precede any emotional basis from without. For instance, nobody travels to their local Barnes & Noble, finds one book advocating theism, another in support of atheism, reads through the argumentation of each and reaches a conclusion independent of any experience that muddies the waters through which a conclusion is apprehended. Read the rest of this entry »
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In a world where so much advice is given on how to develop an intimate relationship , I thought I would explore this avenue by way of a via negativa of sorts. Instead of shedding a little bit of light on the subject, I thought I would shed a little darkness. After all, isn’t it important to make use of the light when we can first acknowledge that we are actually in the darkness? The following treatise should then be sufficient provision in order to destroy a cherished relationship based upon centuries of these finely tuned inadequacies: Read the rest of this entry »
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There was once an atheist, a theologian and a buffoon who were carrying on a conversation about God. The theologian waxed eloquently a fundamentally flawless concept of God with high and lofty vocabulary reserved for the intellectually elite of his kind. The buffoon looked onward in gaping wonder at the profoundness of his espousal of God. Never had he heard such a symphony of diction and a lexis of language. The atheist, however, spoke the same language, was acquainted with the esoteric vocabulary which he utilized so effortlessly and challenged his statements as meaningless. Read the rest of this entry »
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I once was part of a church that taught that the sinful nature could be totally eradicated; that is, gone, wiped out completely. I find this strangely amusing in light of the fact that pastors often chuckle behind closed doors on the difficulty of their congregations. The jokes tell us something different. In fact, pastors in most denominations lament over the high stress nature of their jobs in which they must satisfy everyone, not to mention the damage that is done to their own wives and children. Read the rest of this entry »
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