Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
The responses to my letter to the editor of the Times Leader regarding the problem of evil and the Japanese earthquake continue to roll in…and the responders continue to miss my point and strawman. This letter writer has questions, so I have answers.
Author Kenny Luck and I will be at Borders in Dickson City, PA on April 15th at 6PM to 8PM. Kenny Luck and I will be singing books and I will be giving a speech/presentation regarding the nativity controversy and separation of church and state. Since 2008, Northeastern Pennsylvania has been the crossroads for presidential […]
My recent Letter to the Editor regarding the problem of evil and the Japanese earthquake is getting many responses from Christians who are making my case look very good. Here’s a response that was published today. Someone writes, I’m writing in response to a letter to the editor titled “Natural disasters require our help, not our prayers” (March […]
Rebecca Goldstein presents Spinoza as an autonomous philosopher who had a very high degree of courage, concern for looking for the truth, and rationality. The history of Jewish persecution, Goldstein suggests, deeply influenced Spinoza and led him to question his identity and shape his ideas. Goldstein writes, “Spinoza opted for secularism at a time when the […]
In a recent letter to the editor to a local newspaper, I noted that theistic belief is irrational because natural evil serves as a defeater to Christian belief. The recent devastation in Japan should be “evidence enough” that there is no all-powerful and all-loving god who created the universe with the welfare of humans in mind. […]