Bill Pratt | January 21, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt An interesting article published on CNN’s site the other day claims that many people are angry at God, even atheists and agnostics. The article, entitled, “Anger at God common, even among atheists,” raises a lot of interesting questions. Who gets angry at God and for what reasons? According to the article, [...]
Bill Pratt | January 19, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Lately I’ve been seeing more advertising for the North Carolina State Lottery. I guess lottery revenues aren’t where they need to be to fund state initiatives. When the NC legislature legalized the lottery, the taxpayers were assured that all lottery revenue would go to the education budget, but as soon as [...]
Bill Pratt | January 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many skeptics of Christianity proudly point out that they are “free thinkers.” This expression used to confuse me, as I consider myself a free thinker, but clearly I could not be one in the same way the skeptic means it. After talking to several skeptics, I discovered that “free thinker” is [...]
Bill Pratt | January 12, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the previous post, I explained atheist Dan Barker’s argument in a debate he had with Christian Matt Slick. If you don’t remember what I said, please go back and quickly remind yourself, as this post won’t make sense otherwise. Below I pick up where I left off. What I don’t [...]
Bill Pratt | January 10, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt This week I’ve been listening to a debate between Matt Slick (Christian) and Dan Barker (atheist) on whether humans can be good without God. Barker’s argument during the debate struck me as illogical, and here’s why. Barker explained that moral values are merely natural inclinations that are built into human beings [...]
Bill Pratt | January 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some naturalists are betting on it, because ultimately physical laws, in their worldview, have to explain everything. For the naturalist, there is nothing but physical reality which is governed by physical laws. That being the case, everything, including the human mind, must be reduced to the purely physical and mechanistic. Philosophers [...]
Bill Pratt | January 5, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The conventional wisdom these days is that what you do in your home is your business. If you have children, and you let them watch inappropriate TV shows or movies, then who am I to judge? After all, what you allow your kids to consume doesn’t affect me. Sometimes you’ll hear [...]
Darrell | January 3, 2011
Post Author: Darrell In my last post, I conducted a poll as to whether or not the Nicene Creed is relevant and authoritative in Christianity today. Thus far, the results are as follows: 48% believe it to be both relevant and authoritative, 21% believe it to be relevant, but not authoritative, and a relatively small [...]
