Bill Pratt | June 10, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt Objective evil exists. When we observe the world around us, we realize that there are many things about the world that should not be, things that are wrong. When we see a child abused, we immediately know that it is evil; we know it is wrong, that it should not be. [...]
Bill Pratt | May 10, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt Although most philosophers of religion have conceded that the logical problem of evil (i.e., an all-powerful, all-good God cannot logically exist if evil exists) has been effectively answered by theists, there is still a battle over the evidential problem of evil. The problem for theists, as stated in the evidential argument, [...]
Bill Pratt | July 4, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt In Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, Russell quotes the famed philosopher John Stuart Mill writing about his father’s road to atheism. In the previous post, we looked at the transmission of atheism from one generation to the next. Today we look at another insight from Mill’s quote. My [...]
Bill Pratt | October 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Bad things happen to people all the time. They happen to you and to me, in places nearby and in places far away. Sometimes when we see a person or persons suffering, and we don’t like their worldview, their moral beliefs, or lifestyle, we Christians do something that we need to [...]
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 | December 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt On March 24, 2010, Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated agnostic philosopher Michael Tooley about whether God exists. I attended the debate and thought I would share a summary with you. Craig opened with 5 well-known arguments for the existence of God (some of which we’ve presented on TQA in the [...]
Bill Pratt | July 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Since the Fall, we know why people choose evil – we are all born with original sin that saturates our soul. The Fall, however, does not explain why Adam and Eve, or even Satan, used their free will to choose evil, to reject God. This question may never be answered this [...]
Bill Pratt | May 15, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Woody Allen has never been one to shy away from tackling big issues in his movies. In the movie Hannah and Her Sisters there is a classic scene that depicts Woody Allen’s character first talking to a Catholic priest about converting to Catholicism and then announcing to his Jewish parents his [...]
Bill Pratt | May 6, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Michael Patton, over at the Parchment and Pen blog, recently wrote a powerful post about his struggle with depression. I was deeply moved when I read his post, as he described what it has been like for him over the last couple months. In the past, I may have dismissed people’s [...]
