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Bill’s Comments on Theodicy
Bill Keezer was kind enough to send me a link to some of his own ruminations on matters theological. Here’s his take on the problem of evil: God doesn’t violate his own rules of nature.This idea occurred to me about four or five months ago. I took the approach that if there were God, what…
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Put Down the Chicken and Nobody Gets Hurt
Keith Burgess-Jackson is on a tear! (and I mean that in a good way!) One of the interesting things about adopting a moral stance that is out of the mainstream is that it potentially puts you in a state of radical opposition to nearly everyone around you. For someone who takes the strong animal…
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Thought for the Day
Christ commanded His followers to perform what Christians have come to call the Works of Mercy: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the harborless, visiting the sick and prisoner, and burying the dead. Surely a simple program for direct action, and one enjoined on all of us. Not just…
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Independents’ Day
“Neither party is mine, not the jackass or the elephant.” — Chuck D Jonah Goldberg doesn’t like Independents and he doesn’t like all the fawning over them by the press. As an Independent I suppose I should take umbrage at this, but he does make some good points. Some “swing voters” certainly make up their…
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The Contradictions of Neo-conservatism
Francis Fukuyama writes: Of all of the different views that have now come to be associated with neo-conservatives, the strangest one to me was the confidence that the US could transform Iraq into a Western-style democracy and go on from there to democratise the broader Middle East. It struck me as strange precisely…
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Round-Up
Some items of note from around the web: Here’s a heart-warming article from today’s Philadelphia Inquirer (registration req’d) about a network of volunteers who rescue stray dogs from high-kill shelters in rural areas and find homes for them in the urban northeast. (Sadly, according to the article, there were still over 8,000 stray dogs…
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Charitable Clicking
You may be familiar with The Hunger Site where with a simple mouse click you can “donate” food to someone in need (i.e. you indirectly donate – sponsors donate the food based on the number of unique visits the site receives). Also see The Birth Site, a similar site dedicated to providing support and resources…
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This Present Darkness
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature- that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance- and to found…
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Stupid Internet Quiz Tricks
Which Christian Theologian Are You? “We reject the false doctrine that the church could have permission to hand over the form of its message and of its order to whatever it itself might wish or to the vicissitudes of the prevailing ideological and political convictions of the day.” You are Karl Barth! You like your…
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Thought for the Day
“The basic right not to be treated as a thing is the minimal condition for membership in the moral community. This is the one right we all agree is inalienable; you can get greater protection, but if you are going to be a member of the moral community–if you are not going to be a…
