SEBRING, April 29, 209 – We have two major military actions in the Midde East, the threat of a nuclear test from North Korea, a deadly strain of flu, and an economy swirling down the drain, to name a few of our problems. Newsweek is worried about hatred being rebranded. Take a black president and [...]
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Newsweek Resurrects The Straw Man
Posted in Faith and Reason, Politics, tagged focus on nation's problems, Newsweek article msses the mark, war and economy overshadow the tiny stain on which Newsweek reports on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Psalm 46:1-2a
Posted in Faith and Reason, Uncategorized, tagged get encouragement, get Psalm 46 on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear… .
No Pleasure in Tranquil Peace
Posted in Faith and Reason, Politics, tagged get a Christian worldview, get civic pride, get spiritual, learn about the loss of liberty on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hear these words, my fellow citizens, echoes from the past: “This people could not take pleasure in tranquil peace or be satisfied by liberty with weapons untouched. That was the cause of passions quickly roused, of crime despicable urged by want; it was an honor great and to be sought by [violence] to have more [...]
Scrapping with Skepticism
Posted in Faith and Reason, tagged ancient man, Bible writers, faith, fiction, God, God of Abraham, ignorant writers, James Randi, Koran writers, physical science, reason, Sam Harris, sceptic, scepticism, scriptures, scritpure, Skeptic, skepticism on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is good to be skeptical. I see skepticism as a form of moderation whereby one avoids the pitfalls of gullibility and obstinacy or inflexibility. Care is taken in the discovery of facts and truth without a bias one way or another. It is a difficult characteristic to cultivate. Still, it surprises me to read [...]
American Patriot
Posted in Faith and Reason, tagged celebration, civil disobedience, civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., free at last, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, peaceful resistance, racial equality, reason on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Why people still have a problem with his celebration is beyond ken but probably right smack in the middle of ignorance and bigotry. Dr. King took the ideals of Western philosophy and used them to demonstrate the wisdom of love and tolerance and racial equality and the folly [...]
How to Increase Debt and Create Servitude
Posted in Faith and Reason, Politics, tagged debt, deception, financial servitude, overspending, private debt, public debt, servitude, usury on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The leaders of our country want to spark the economy in the short term. They want to avoid a recession, now that they have overspent hundreds of billions on military actions, cut revenue with tax breaks that did not generate the kind of economic boom they expected, and helped to drive the price of oil [...]
“The Christ Conspiracy”
Posted in Faith and Reason, tagged Acharya S, atheism, Christ, evidence for Jesus, historicity of Jesus, Jesus, messiah, myth, mythic influences, the christ conspiracy on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently stumbled upon a blog penned by Acharya S called “The Truth Be Known.” Acharya S is a pseudonym for a person identified as D. M. Murdock, one reportedly educated in the Classics and in Archeology. She postulates that Jesus did not exist but is a conflation of divers mythic personages from cultures outside [...]
Skeptical About Skeptic
Posted in Faith and Reason, tagged Apologetics, Avital Pilpel, Creation, Creationism, Evolution, Evolutionary Theory, God, Intelligent Design, Skeptic, skepticism, sub-optimality on January 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
While at the Barnes and Noble two-story store in downtown Orlando recently, my eye caught sight of an issue of Skeptic, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2007. I picked it up and began to read it. I was drawn in particular to an article on Intelligent Design on page 18 called “Cosmos and Coincidence” by Avital [...]
