Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
(A fitting poster for this post…) It’s often the case that people are quick to respond to content or people they happen to disagree with with a ‘sit down and shut up’ mentality in which they believe that certain ideas just shouldn’t be discussed. Is this an appropriate attitude to have? In a pluralistic society, […]
This post is from a guest contributer who wishes to remain anonymous. This Tebow thing is really getting out of hand. I thought it might have ended when his winning streak ended and the Broncos lost to the Patriots, but in this weekend’s wild card game, it happened again. Tebow threw about a 10 yard […]
In a short essay titled Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, philosopher Edmund Gettier raised some concerns about, as you may have guessed, justified true belief and knowledge. For this post, I’d like to explore how Gettier’s essay relates to belief in God. If God happened to exist, can Christians rightly claim the ‘high ground’ and say […]
In a recent post, I discussed the problem of divine hiddenness (why God remains hidden despite very good reasons God would have to reveal himself). I showed why various standard arguments apologists give– mainly ‘free will defenses’– to provide reasons for why God would remain hidden fail. I’ll give a quick summary of my previous post […]
Atheists (and theists) wonder why — since it is the case that theists profess God wants everyone to believe he exists – God simply doesn’t unequivocally reveal himself so that persons can ‘enter into a relationship’ with God, no longer doubt, stop fighting one another because of religious differences, and go to Heaven. An all-powerful, […]
