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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

An anti-abortion argument

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• 1. Infants, however undeveloped, are considered persons whose lives are protected by law. • 2. Fetuses differ from infants in four ways...
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Monday, November 29, 2021

Christianity and partisan politics

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  I think you can make pragmatic and tentative choices of party as a Christian, but Christian ought to be, in an important sense, independen...
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Sunday, November 28, 2021

The devil and soft determinism

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  If soft determinism is true, your total past circumstances, not just being poor, guarantees that you steal. It "makes" you steal...
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The Bible and the Death Penalty

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  The Old Testament is loaded with death penalty offenses, though Christ said the only ones who could carry a death sentence against one adu...
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Friday, November 26, 2021

On Karma

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  Looking at the world around me, I have a lot of trouble believing in Karma, at least as it concerns life in this world. The fact is, cold-...
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How free should a free market be?

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How free does the market need to be? Does a regulated market cease to be a free market? If so, we lost our free market long ago. Free mark...
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Friday, November 19, 2021

A (misguided) defense of the election fraud claim

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  Here.  This is a case for the election fraud claims, made by someone getting a degree in apologetics from Trinity Evangelical Theological ...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Facts, opinions, and rights

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The fact-opinion distinction, along with the idea that you have a right to your opinion, is the bane of my existence as a philosophy instruc...
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Sunday, November 14, 2021

Shoving your religion (or lack of it) down someone's throat

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  It is natural, if you think something is both true and important, which Christianity (and atheism) are certainly believed to be by their ...
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Douglas Groothuis on Bertrand Russell

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The world's leading Heinlein scholar.

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  Bill Patterson.    Also a leading figure in Phoenix fandom during the Golden age of same. 
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God the micromanager?

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There are two schools of thought on free will and God. One of them says that God can predestine and strictly control all of our actions, but...

Thinking one's religion (or religious view) is true

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  Any belief system is thought to be true by its adherent, and therefore other views are considered false. That is as true for atheist mater...
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Saturday, November 13, 2021

Socialism for the goose, socialism for the gander.

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 I f you allow enough "socialism" to permit the government to bail a company out to keep it from failing, can't you also allow...
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Does ethics pay?

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  Even though ethics may often pay, the idea of ethics is that you ought to be ethical even if it doesn't pay. The Mafia, after all, has...

Religion, Morality, and Kitty Wells

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A redated post/  Country music, as most of us know, is  the most theology-laden form of popular music. The lyrics of this song, sung by Kit...
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What polytheists and atheist agree on

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 P olytheistic religions have been, for the most part amoral. It was the Jews who, in going monotheist, connected morality to religion. How ...
Friday, November 12, 2021

What difference does religion make to morality

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  . There is one way in which religion on the face of things makes a difference, and that is if there is no God (or no law of Karma), then m...

Do religions agree on morality?

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Do religions agree on more than they disagree with when it comes to morality? Do any religions, for example, say that murder, adultery or be...
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Saturday, November 06, 2021

Is the free market ever really free?

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To what extent is our economy really a free market economy? Is government involved in the economy to a large extent even when it appears as ...
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Victor Reppert
I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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