Bill Pratt | December 26, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Four times in the past year I have heard the following kind of statement from atheists: “Religious people are dangerous because they think they have answers to ultimate questions.” Twice these comments were uttered by personal friends of mine, and twice I heard them expressed by atheists in debates that I [...]
Bill Pratt | September 23, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 of this series Philosopher Edward Feser demonstrated that reason, not faith, brings us all the way to the conclusion that Jesus is divine. Once we arrive here, where do we go? Feser explains: Suppose you know through purely rational arguments that there is a God, that He raised [...]
Bill Pratt | July 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a recent post, we discussed the fact that whenever a person makes something or someone their highest love in place of God, divisiveness occurs. Tim Keller, in stark fashion, also shows us what the other negative effects of placing our faith in these God substitutes can be. Here is an [...]
Bill Pratt | July 13, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have just completed reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, which has provided me much material for the blog in recent days. In one powerful section of the book, Keller carefully draws out the distinction between one definition of “religion” and the Christian gospel. Today I pick up the [...]
Bill Pratt | July 11, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have just completed reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, which has provided me much material for the blog in recent days. In one powerful section of the book, Keller carefully draws out the distinction between one definition of “religion” and the Christian gospel. First, Keller clarifies what he [...]
Bill Pratt | June 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt There are fewer words that are more loaded with a negative connotation than fundamentalism. Generally when we hear that word, we have been trained by the media to react with either fear or disdain, or both. After all, fundamentalists are supposed to be ignorant and violent. To be a fundamentalist used [...]
Bill Pratt | June 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple months ago I attended a debate between a Christian scholar and an atheist scholar at a local university. At the conclusion of the debate there was a Q and A session and one of the atheist students stood up and asked something like the following to the Christian scholar: [...]
Bill Pratt | June 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The vast majority of us believe in some kind of supernatural realm, but more and more people are uncomfortable saying that one religion possesses more truth about the supernatural than others. We are becoming, in the US, a nation of religious pluralists. A popular mantra of the religious pluralist, according to [...]
Bill Pratt | June 13, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt For some secular, non-religious people, their hope is that religious people will some day be the minority, that mankind will finally grow out of this unfortunate phase of history. Religion may have helped our distant ancestors to explain where we came from, why we are here, why we have moral feelings, [...]
Bill Pratt | March 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many of the people I know who reject God or who have crafted a God that makes no demands on them have a fundamental problem with authority. They don’t want anybody telling them what to do. For a person who wants complete autonomy, who chafes at the thought of anyone having [...]
