It’s a tough question… could you forgive someone who did you wrong? A story in today’s news caught my eye: Forgive Iraqi captors, former hostages plead. Three former hostages urge forgiveness for Iraqi captors. Spare Iraqi kidnappers, Loney pleads. James Loney, Harmeet Singh Sooden and Norman Kember, three members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, were […]
Something interesting happened this past week: I received my first hate mail as a result of my blog postings. It seems that my 4 part series on atheism raised a few eyebrows. I received two comments to my postings. As an aside, I have chosen to moderate my comments, but only for the purpose of […]
So… where does this leave the atheist? I see two options available to the atheist. The atheist can either live a life of nihilism, suffering under a burden of meaninglessness, pushing the stone up the hill every day for the rest of existence, believing that all of the effort is for nothing. Alternately, the atheist […]
What is our purpose in life? Richard Taylor, in his book Good and Evil, A New Direction, addresses the question of meaning in life. To address meaningless existence, Taylor recalls the ancient myth of Sisyphus [Richard Taylor, Good and Evil, A New Direction, London, England: Collier-Macmillan Ltd, 1970, pg 256-268.]. Sisyphus, after angering the Gods, […]
We left off with some heady critiques of Christianity. Time to look at some defenses for the Christian position. C.S. Lewis simplifies this metaphysical debate in his book Miracles. To Lewis, the debate regarding the existence of God is really a debate about borders. The naturalist claims that our reality can be explained within the […]
Todd H Dow