Good Enough For These Idiots

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR BELIEVERS

It has become an essential part of my Christian life to read and meditate on the Bible every morning. Fellowship and encouragement with other believers is also important, but even more we need the encouragement God gives in His Word. * * * Yesterday morning I was feeling particularly burdened by the...

feedle - Fri Jul 25 09:52:13 2008

"We're all here to fart around. Don't let anyone tell you any different!" -Kurt Vonnegut, from A Man Without a Country As I am often wont to do, I've been spending a lot of my free time lately evaluating my religion, my spirituality, and my overall take on such matters. Also, as is common in these...

My Summer Reading, so far

I began the summer by reading Judith Kitchen's examination of William Stafford's poetic works, Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford. There is simply not enough critical writing on Stafford's voluminous body of work. Here it becomes clear that his crisp, yet complicated, approach to...

Kierkegaard's Truth

Kierkegaard is usually considered to be the founding father of existentialism. Considering that most existentialists are atheists, it is kind of ironic to think that the founding father of existentialism was a theist. Not only was he a theist, but he was also an extremely religious Christian--so...

I <3 Existentialism

I recently purchased a course from the Teaching Company over existentialism. I have really enjoyed the Nietzsche lessons that I purchased earlier on in the summer (still haven't finished them...) taught by Professor Robert Solomon, so I was excited to learn that the existentialism course was also...

Enchantée!

Now that I’m back in America and generally readjusted to my surroundings I think it’s time for me to find a voice. In my daily life my voice cusses a lot, commits numerous grammatical errors, and makes lots of nonsense noises. Hope that what I write here isn’t nonsense, but if it is I’d...

Errors from Christopher Hitchens

Errors and Misrepresentations Christopher Hitchens may be extremely knowledgable regarding history and world politics...and may be very quick witted and well read but does that mean the "facts" he presents in his book "God Is Not Great" are true? Mark Roberts debated Christopher Hitchens not to long...

How Evolution Flunked the Science Test, a Critique; Draft

"Why write this, to who?" This is to the Christians more than anyone. There are so many straw man arguments in this work that detract from it's credibility. Using Scientists that have been dead for many years; Outdated publications while ignoring modern ones; Legend: Red Numbers are for dates...

What are the odds of life having arisen by chance?

It's been a long time since I've blogged, not for any particular reason. It may be a long time before I blog again, as I tend to only write when a thought kicks around in my noggin long enough that I feel it's worth sharing and I'm pretty confident of what it is I want to say. (end disclaimer) The...

Cheerful Despair

I often use terms that seem to really bother people: nothingness, chaos, suffering, meaninglessness, despair, etc. Why do these terms, which are so embedded in my philosophy, bother people so much? Well, most people seem to thing that there is something as opposed to nothing: God created everything...

Spirituality

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein I recently made a couple of posts...

Introduction: The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

Below is the introduction to The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by Andre Comte-Sponville. Over the past few years, the revival of religion has taken on spectacular and, in many ways, frightening dimensions. This is clearly the case in Muslim countries, but everything seems to indicate that the...

The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

Up until my freshman year of college, I had never questioned religion or tradition. All I really did was go with the flow: listen to the preacher, listen to the teacher, listen to my father, etc. I was never very religious, though--I didn't care too much for religion and belief. Nevertheless, after...

Obama to the Faith-Based Rescue

Good plan. Go with something that the left criticized with GW in the hopes of winning over more of the right. Kind of sounds like a true politician, doesn't it? Taking a page from President Bush, Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service...

Denialococcus evolureus

The sad thing is that this (also see this) comes from the same people that don't believe in anthropogenic contributions to planetary warming (even in the face of the evidence). See... no matter what, whether it is evidence of bacterial evolution or human contribution to our climate, there are those...

Richard Dawkins's Delusions

Richard Dawkins's Delusions I have been asked by a number of individuals to write an article commenting on Dr Richard Dawkins and his most recent book: The God Delusion. I have long admired his popular scientific works, long envied their clarity and his beautiful use of analogies. Like his American...

Dawkins imposter...

Sadly, I read this on Friendly Atheist this morning: Yet again, some impostor is pretending to be me. I do not Twitter, I had never even heard of Twittering until a thread on RichardDawkins.net alerted me to it, and I most certainly have not signed up for it. I am told there are numerous Facebook...

Today I went to church...

First of all, Happy Father's Day! I hope all you fathers out there had a wonderful day. For Father's day, my father wanted my brother, sister, and I to go to church with him, so I went to church this morning. The other night I was talking to my mother about this whole predicament: I didn't want to...

[props tuesday. 6.10.08]

Today is my first day as an intern at The Other Journal. This being the case I thought it would be fitting to make said journal the focus of this week’s Props Tuesday. TOJ’s tag line is “An Intersection of Theology and Culture.” For those of you who know me at all, or perhaps for those of...