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What Does Atheism Become?
| January 20, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, Blog, eugenics, evolution, Holocaust, human rights, morality, Papers, philosophy, politics, scientism, Secular Humanism, theology |
About five years ago I published a collection of essays that is no longer available for purchase. The collection is titled after the essay below. It is not, as far as I know, something I’ve published elsewhere. I was thinking of it recently and decided it should be dusted off. It seems as relevant today as when I first wrote it.
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That Which Atheism Becomes
Some might say that I just like to argue. The truth is that I believe that ideas have consequences and some consequences are more severe than others. Arguing, or more precisely, debating, these ideas helps everyone on all sides of a position understand a position better. In theory, if you could of got Bin Laden to sit down to have a nice debate you could of aroused for him some of the critical consequences of his beliefs and demanded that before he acted on them he had a much firmer basis. According to many Muslims, such a basis does not exist. I will leave that issue to them to sort out. But Bin Laden does have this going for him: he takes a belief to its rational conclusion. There are many dangerous beliefs out there that people consider harmless simply because they aren’t taken to their rational conclusion.
Apologetics is the Answer to Abortion and Euthanasia and other Life Issues
| January 7, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, apologetics, atheism, Bible Reliability, Blog, Christianity and Culture, Creationism, eugenics, evolution, family, General, Global Warming, Holocaust, homosexuality, human rights, Jesus, Malthusians, morality, politics, pro-life, scientism, Secular Humanism, speaking engagements, theology |
Apologetics ministries tend to focus on issues such as God’s existence or the fact of the resurrection or the Bible’s reliability. These are all very important. Indeed, they bear directly on the issues at hand- for if there is no God, it obviously follows that we cannot be made by him in his image. Further, Jesus suffering, death, and resurrection on behalf of a fallen human race is an emphatic testament to how much God himself values each human life. Dispense with these, and there are ripples down the line.
There, however, is where I wish to make the point: there are ripples down the line.
Somewhere I read once that in the 1700s they went after God. In the 1800s, they went after Jesus. In the 1900s, they went after Man. The sequence is logical, rational, and predictable. One would like to think that they can dispense with God without there being practical effect, but the 1900s have shown otherwise.
A Christian checks out Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
| June 7, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, book reviews, Christianity and Culture, End Times, General, homosexuality, human rights, Obama, original sin, politics |
Having only read excerpts of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals, I was pleased to have the opportunity to sit down and read it for myself in its entirety. Knowing how influential Alinksy was for the young Obama (and many others who now occupy seats of power) I am more worried than I was before now that I’ve actually read this book. Go to the library and pick up the book. You need to read it.
The subtitle of the book is “A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” It is not an inappropriate subtitle. Alinsky is all about pragmatism and realism. Alinsky is dismissive of ethical questions related to the question “Does the end justify the means?” He says:
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe’s “conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action”; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind. The choice must always be for the latter. Action is for mass salvation and not for the individual’s personal salvation. He who sacrifices mass good for his personal conscience has a peculiar conception of “personal salvation”; he doesn’t care enough for people to be “corrupted” for them. (pg 25, chapter titled: Of Means and Ends)
Is Calling a Person a Socialist just Name Calling? Is it Christian to ‘Spread the Wealth’?
| October 30, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, General |
There is, in fact, both secular and religious reasons to be concerned about people who wish to use the State to be ‘brother’s keeper.’ Personally, reading Obama’s statement that he is ‘his brother’s keeper’ in this context put chills down my spine. He aims to be the epitome of ‘Big Brother.’ We need not go to the book 1984 to see the dangers when ‘Big Brother’ to see what abuses can arise. Using the government to ‘help’ people means that a select few within the government will have to decide who needs help and what kind of ‘help’ is necessary.
NBC Heroes, Original Sin, and the Image of God
| October 6, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
Heroes is continuing to try to string along the religious viewer by employing Christian verbiage such as ‘image of God’ and ‘God’s will.’ Tonight we had something that passes as a good juxtaposition between the Christian worldview and the secular worldview though ironically the roles were reversed… Nathan Petrelli has ‘got religion’ and is now seeking transcendental meaning for his life. So far, so good. A Nathan Petrelli in the future attempts to reason with his brother, Peter, that we’ve all got good in us since we’re made in the image of God- as such, we can center extraordinary power in a superpowerful army of good intentioned individuals with ‘Heroes’ powers. (As I understand the conversation). Peter, who hasn’t said a peep about religion or God doesn’t trust people and believes his brother is wrong.
Blood on our Hands
| January 21, 2007 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
The conversation in the US of late is whether or not we should pull out of Iraq or some other scenario. It may seem that this is an issue segregated from religion and Christianity but I refuse to believe that one’s ideas- religious or otherwise- have no bearing on real life… indeed, if they did,…
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