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Science Fiction

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

At one of the recommended links here, Common Sense Science, there is a section on the philosophy of reality that should put to rest the idea that scientists are all unbiased and rational. For example:
In the Western world, the leading physicists advocate one or more of the eight forms of quantum reality, with most holding [...]

Contemplative Spirituality

Friday, January 25th, 2008

In a conversation at the Women In Ministry blog, the topic started on a tangent about Contemplative Spirituality (CS), including the related terms “spiritual formation” and “emerging/emergent church”. We decided to pick it up here so it won’t be a distraction there. Please click on the word “conversation” in the first sentence to see what’s [...]

The Fountain of Truth

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I hold as a “given” that it is impossible for anyone to read without interpreting. Everyone has foundational assertions that all else is built upon, but few people are even aware of them, or at least can conceive of others having a right to different foundational assertions. It can be very mind-bending to step outside [...]

Orwellian Doublespeak: When Domination Is Submission

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I mentioned the Orwell book 1984 in an archived post about the KJVO cult, in the way they twist words to make revisions not revisions and errors not errors. But the same sort of “doublespeak” is occurring in the “gender wars” as well, by the self-named “complementarians” who exalt males over females in all spheres [...]

Spiritual Turnoffs

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Recently I went net surfing to get a sense of why many people reject Christianity. Aside from the common “all religion is stupid” (to put it politely) and cut-and-paste rants, two principle complaints emerge:

Calvinism
Misogyny

It’s just a fact, people. Do a search and you’ll find many rejecting “a God who would make people sinners against their [...]

Bible Dot Arrrgh!

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Who’d have guessed that “you are all one in Christ Jesus” could be considered “extreme”?
After I viewed the evil enslavement vows at bible.org (see “Vows and Wows”) I decided to take a look around to see how far gone they were on this topic. They didn’t disappoint my hunch that it went to the very [...]