Most of us spent at least some the time during our periods of formal education engaging in bull sessions, wrestling with ideas with a group of friends or acquaintances in a self-sustaining battle of ideas in which point and counterpoint were the acceptable weapons. Once outside that milieu, opportunities to test one’s thinking became greatly…
Category: Philosophy
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Religion
Aboutness
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When atheists and secular humanists dismiss Christianity, they are dismissing more than religion. They are dismissing a cogent moral system, along with the system of rights that system bestows upon us all. Lest we forget, our inalienable rights, which form the basis of our constitution, are granted (and not revocable by government) by our Creator.…
Christianity, Philosophy
Value And Inalienable Rights
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Value. n. To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability. What is your value and who determines it? I believe our value is twofold: internal and in the eye of the beholder. For a Christian, it is God who determines our value and he is the beholder and establisher of all that we…
Christianity, Personal, Philosophy
Hard Questions, Difficult Answers
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Some of the best articles I have ever read on world affairs, political philosophy, and the current war on terror have been at the Belmont Club. Today Wretchard’s Oh Say Can You See posting examines the difference between Democratic and Republican approaches to Jefferson’s democratic ideal, using a New York Time article by Michael Ignatieff…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy, Religion
Reminiscing The Past: The Power Of Renewal
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This is an essay I wrote on September 11, 2003. It wasn’t written as an anniversary missive, but the events of 9-11 do form the backdrop to the premise, a canvas on which the power of renewal is painted in vivid colors. If you are having a tough time this week I pray this posting…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Philosophy
History And Christianity
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Is history really important? History says it is (and that is not a circular argument) as does the philosopher George Santayana whose famous quote has become a maxim. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense, Scribner’s, 1905, page 284 George Orwell thought history was…
Christianity, Personal, Philosophy
Reminiscing The Past: Nexus Points
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I have decided to post some of my past writings; those I think are relevant to recent events, exposing them to my current audience. One of the joys, but also the problem with blogs is their immediacy. As a result whatever was said in the past seems to be forgotten, out of sight out of…
Blogging, Christianity, Personal, Philosophy
Acknowledging The Debts We Owe
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We are made up of many things: our genes and the physical and mental characteristics they grace us with, our experiences and the choices we make within them that mold the character and make the man [or woman] we now present to the world. In who we are we exhibit small and large bits and…
Personal, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Tough Day
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I find it hard to believe how much the Terri Shiavo case has affected me and how upset the inexorable grinding of our dysfunctional legal system has made me. A simple reading of the evidence says something is very remiss here and I dont believe what I see is the wishful thinking of a close-minded…
Christianity, Lent, Philosophy
Lent: Day Thirty
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Today has been a strange but good day. I didn’t get everything I wanted to done and I got drawn into a discussion with Jeremy Pierce of Parableman about The Moral Value of Meanings of Words. Our discussion focused down to love and the Greek words used in the New Testament (agapao/agape, philios, sturge –…