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  • Current Event
    2 years ago
    by wetwilly87
    +18 +1

    It’s Hard to Watch Good People Struggle With Religion

    Everyone has their own definition of what it means to be a real Christian. Usually, people think of real Christians as the ones who agree with them, though this doesn’t solve anything. When I wrote Dragged Into the Light, a book about Christians who believe the world is full of monsters, including and especially Reptilians in the halls of power, it was better shorthand to call them a cult than it was to call them a sect.

  • Analysis
    2 years ago
    by wetwilly87
    +12 +1

    Why is there Something Rather than Nothing?

    The cosmological argument is a formidable argument for the existence of God. It’s not a single argument but a family of arguments with a similar theme. While there are several different versions of the argument, it’s unfortunately one of the most misunderstood.

  • Current Event
    3 years ago
    by zyery
    +18 +1

    AI Reinventing God

    Religion is going through a silent crisis, likely a transformative one. The word “religion” has been derived from the latin verb “re-ligare”, which means to “re-connect” or “re-bind”. The term originally implied reconnecting or rebinding with “God”.

  • Expression
    4 years ago
    by cone
    +14 +1

    A God Problem

    If you look up “God” in a dictionary, the first entry you will find will be something along the lines of “a being believed to be the infinitely perfect, wise and powerful creator and ruler of the universe.” Certainly, if applied to non-Western contexts, the definition would be puzzling, but in a Western context this is how philosophers have traditionally understood “God.” In fact, this conception of God is sometimes known as the “God of the Philosophers.”

  • Analysis
    8 years ago
    by imokruok
    +32 +1

    The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God

    Why ethical objections to interfering with nature are too late.