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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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