The Castle Church Door

For my fellow "Prots" . . . We are repeatedly lambasted about how twisted to and fro in the wind we must be if we hold to sola Scripture and the right of private judgment. "Come on across the tracks," they tell us, " and hold on to Tradition and achieve cognitive rest about which doctrines are true."But is this the case? Let's look at one concrete example. ...

(Thanks to James Anderson, Ted Hamilton, and Steve Hays for insightful comments on a rough draft of this post. The position argued below should not be taken to be identical with their own views on the matter, and any errors or blunder are to be attributed to me.)The resurrection of the dead is one of those articles of faith known solely by way of special, divine revelation. The ...

A popular atheological strategy (popular to the New Atheists, internet atheists, militant atheists, and others of this general ilk) that I frequently run across is the argument that biblical writers, or especially Jesus, spoke in such un-scientific terms. For instance, it is claimed that Jesus misspoke about the smallest seed, calling a plant a tree, indeed, not knowing anything about modern agriculture is one recent charge I read. ...

Roget's II: The New ThesaurusMain Entry: sabotagePart of Speech: nounDefinition: A deliberate and underhanded effort to defeat or do harm to an endeavor.Synonyms: subversion, underminingSynonym Collection v1.1Main Entry: sabotagePart of Speech: verbSynonyms: block, damage, destroy, disable, disrupt, incapacitate, subvert, undermine, vandalize, wreckUse in contemporary pop culture:"Cause What You See You Might Not GetAnd We Can Bet So Don't You Get Souped YetYou're Scheming On A Thing That's A ...

I've demonstrated below that the charges that it is "religion" to blame for causing all the "violence" and "war" are simply unfounded. I've proven secular causes. Non or irreligious causes. Even atheistic ones. And in the last century, the great wars that have killed untold numbers were fought for secular, irreligious reasons.Moving on . . . Another tact taken by those of the New Atheism, like Hitchens, is ...

"Nothing optional--from homosexuality to adultery--is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate" -- Hitchens, "god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," p. 40"[I]f I was suspected of raping a child, or of torturing a child, or infecting a child with venereal disease, or selling a child into sexual or any other kind of slavery, ...

Dawkins called those associated with "Expelled," liars for Jesus. So I'll assume he thinks my terminology fair."I shall simply say that those who regard [Saddam Hussein's] regime as a 'secular' one are deluding themselves" -- Christopher Hitchens, "god is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything", p. 25)Let's see what the "About Atheism/Agnosticism" web site claims (do I need to point out that I'm invoking a source not sympathetic ...

CNN isn't known as a pro-religious, pro "right" organization.******************************Suicide bombings as military strategyExpert: Attacks motivated by logic, not religionBy Henry SchusterCNNThursday, June 30, 2005 Posted: 1605 GMT (0005 HKT) Editor's Note: Henry Schuster, a senior producer in CNN's Investigative Unit and author of "Hunting Eric Rudolph," has been covering terrorism for more than a decade. Each week in "Tracking Terror," he reports on people and organizations driving international ...

"Some of them [people who rejected religious faith] had blinding moments of unconviction that were every bit as instantanious, though perhaps less epileptic and apocalyptic (and later more rationally and morally justified) than Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus road." - Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, p. 5.

Below are all the links to the massive debate between Calvinism and Arminianism that took place between (mainly) Victor Reppert, Steve Hays, Paul Manata, and Dominic Bnonn Tennant. This post will function as a (almost) one-stop shop for seeing anti-Calvinist arguments, and rebuttals to those arguments. Our opponent, Victor Reppert, has a PhD in philosophy and so makes for an ideal representative of the philosophical arguments Arminians use ...