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I just recently binged watched the Amazon series Fallout. It was an enjoyable show, but don’t analyze it too deeply. It does have some major plot holes, but the characters were good, and the story never dragged. What really caught my attention was something said in the fifth episode. In it, Lucy, the main protagonist…
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Why did God allow Hitler to come to power? And why did He allow the Holocaust to happen? These are two questions often asked by both believers and sceptics alike. And these are fair questions even if they are unanswerable since as scripture says, “the ways of God are above the ways of man.” I…
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The other day I was watching Tiggernometry and in this episode Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster were discussing Antisemitism with Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. During the course of the discussion, they made the observation that Jews seem to dominate many areas of intellectual life. That would include the number of Nobel Prize winners, academics,…
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You have to wonder, why is there so much antisemitism in the world? Some claim it’s a holdover from the Christian Middle Ages, but hatred of the Jews predates the Christian era. The book of Acts in the New Testament speaks of Emperor Claudius kicking the Jews out of the city of Rome. Pagan Rome…
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This is a post I should have written days earlier to commemorate the Doolittle Raid that occurred on April 18, 1942. You would think this was forever burned in the American memory, but I was surprised to find so many not knowing the story, even in the Baby Boom generation. The Doolittle Raid was America’s…
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I’ve finished reading the book How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur, the creator of the television show The Good Place. It could be titled Secular Ethics Philosophy for Dummies. It is an easy read and I’ve read about a third of it. But as the alternate title I gave suggest, it doesn’t touch the…
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In all honesty I have to admit that I’m not Pro-Life, I’m Anti-Abortion. I think it’s important that we stop hiding behind euphemisms that we think will be more acceptable to the public. I think those who say they’re Pro-Choice should admit they are not Pro-Choice. Many of them don’t believe a law-abiding citizen should…
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This is my second post on thoughts of abortion. The Pro-Life movement owes a debt of gratitude, surprisingly enough, to the philosopher Peter Singer. You might recognize him as the ethicist (and I use that term loosely) who gave the case for infanticide. My saying this will cause a lot of castigation from most of…
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This is the first of a series of three thoughts on abortion. A modern-day philosopher named Judith Javis Thompson has the reputation of giving scenarios of ethical dilemmas. She’s the one credited with the infamous trolly scenario. Here’s another one for you to consider. It’s known as the violinist scenario. You wake up in the…
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I have not been to Jerusalem, but I do hope to visit there some day. However, in a recent Bible class the teacher showed a photo he took from the top of the Mount of Olives with the Kidron Valley between it and the Temple Mound. He was showing this to explain how Jesus wept…
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A question Christians often hear from non-Christians is, “Why do I have to go through Jesus to reach God?” More often than not this question come for a universalist who sees all religions as being the same. But anyone who has taken even a cursory look at different religions know this is not the case.…
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I’ve been finding myself watching more and more classic shows. Be it television or movies. The main reason for doing so is because of the extremely poor quality of writing that is coming out of Hollywood these days. Anyways I found myself rewatching Rope the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie. The way he filmed it was…
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