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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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I just recently watched the mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven. It wasn’t very complementary to the Mormon church. But it did get me to thinking, mainly about Joseph Smith. I’m not going to take this time to deconstruct the man or speculate his sanity and morality. Instead, I’m going to give him the benefit…
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The Carl Sagan quote, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard. It is almost always given by atheists to the religious with a smug grin as if proves something. However, they never define “extraordinary evidence.” Atheists will often say they can’t accept a miracle because it can be…
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Most Americans when asked if they believe there’s intelligent life somewhere else in the universe will give an enthusiastic yes. They will site that with all the billions of stars in the Milky Way and with the trillion of galaxies in the universe the odds prove there has to be life out there and intelligent…
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Lately I’ve been reading the Bible with a Greek Interlinear. (That’s the wonder of the internet. You have easy access to so many study aids.) And I was reading the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. There were several that struck me reading it as a word for word translation. The first was “Blessed…
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I’ve recently watched the old HBO film Conspiracy. It’s a reenactment of the Wannsee Conference. Having personally experienced several bureaucratic meetings I would have thought this would be one of the most boring movies ever made, but it was riveting. This was the conference where the SS hammered out the “Final Solution to the Jewish…
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I’ve heard many, both believers and nonbelievers ask, “How can a loving God send anyone to hell?” To which I respond, “He has to send people to hell because He is a loving God.” I know that surprises you, and it seems like an oxymoron, but let me explain. First let us consider what hell…
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