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Response to 04SCTLS "I am not a militant athiest and can accept the notion of an act of creation bringing about the universe but that does not mean there is a personal ethical moral (man made) God who dangles immortality as a reward for behaviour, looks after you and cares and judges you. Makes...

Faith, Reason, and Certainity that God Exists I know I'm coming into this discussion in the middle of things, but I thought I'd add my thoughts on the matter. I would argue that faith and reason are partially overlapping. There are some things which properly belong only to reason (e.g...

Cal shouldn't have to tell you he's talking about Judeo-Christian religion given the historical and cultural context of U.S. history which has long been dominated by Judeo-Christian belief. The United States faces physically external threats (i.e. terrorism) and internal threats (i.e poor...

I enjoy reading the articles over at the website "Chiesa" - they are usually quite insightful and give a marvelous perspective of the world as seen from Rome (well, the Vatican to be exact). The site has just now posted a story about a document being floated out of Egypt regarding religous...

It's important to recognize the difference between the Christan notion of "brother and sister" and the Islamic faith. I think a lot of people hold the mistaken notion that we're all "the children of God" by nature and thus we are all really "brothers and sisters" to each other. This, however, is...

But this is where your logic leads. Either the universe expands into a void (which is nothing, not an infinite something) or it is contained/closed. In either case we have a finite material realm that needs something outside itself for existence. Do you not see the circular logic you come...

The purpose of "gun rights" is to be able to defend and protect our nation and our neighbors. The gun is a symbol of indpendence, but I think the Left and Right get it wrong. The Left wants gun bans, which is not consitutional while the Right argues that the individual has a right to bear arms...

Actually, that's what you want me to believe. Your conception of the universe is an expansion of stuff into a void (i.e. nothing). In your conception, the universe exists in nothing. My view does not state that God exists IN nothing because "in" assumes a spatial category. God cannot by...

The charlatans' response to the Tucson tragedy - George Will It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson's occur, there were a moratorium on sociology. But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political opportunism, are impossible because of a timeless human craving...

Existence is certainly at issue here: you postulate a world which cannot logically exist since your view of the world gives it no real foundation in anything. The fact that we exist is the only evidence necessary given the logically deductive need for a cause or creative force of this existence...

Did Christianity "treat the great religions of the world like a buffet line, picking and choosing which parts are agreeable to [it]" you mean? No. Remember that I also said that: I am not opposed to a religious tradition meeting a culture where it is at and incorporating certain elements of...

Thank you. But I want to be clear here the point that Pope Benedict was making about faith in the article I included: faith comes as a response to what is received from without, not invented from within. Therefore according to this "interesting concept" folks like Luther, Smith, and Buddha are...

"Losing science will not give us philosophy. But if we lose philosophy itself, we must be prepared to lose science, reason, and liberty; in short, we are bound to lose Western culture itself together with its feeling for the eminent dignity of man." -Etienne Gilson

Lemme jump back in on a few things here.. Israel is in a kill-or-be-killed situation in which its very survival is dependent upon everyone pitching in to keep it from being destroyed. There is no real way for them to avoid having homosexuals and women trained to fight to the death. It is a...

As I noted "authentic religious beliefs" are those which are not "'made up' by an individual on a whim." This would no longer be a real religion but rather a religion of pure subjectivism where beliefs have no grounding and no objectivity outside the mind of the one who invents them. This has...

What we have here are some contradictions. In response to my statement that by your definition space is a void, you say: And then later you say: Indeed, it is mighty presumptuous. But it is your view I was describing. My words were in critique of your philosophy, sir. Sadly to define...

Well I certainly never said they were unreasonable, I just said that reason alone cannot prove the existence of a heaven for the good and a hell for the bad. Reason can simply say: there is an afterlife (see below for more on this). It cannot prove "two" afterlife's. But perhaps you could say...

I am often surprised at how poorly reporting is done about two kinds of stories: sports and religion. Often times this is because the former is written by people who know a lot about sports but nothing about writing while the latter is written by people who know a lot about writing but nothing...

Well said, indeed.

Agreed. I certainly would not. Thanks for the info!