Don’t be an irrational person…think! Develop habits of thinking well, and engaging the world with everything you have: mind and body, body and soul, ideas with action, thinking with gratitude… Continue reading
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Originally posted 2011-10-24 12:39:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men. They are much more wild than the wildest romances of chivalry and much more dull than the dullest religious tract. Moreover, the romances of chivalry were at least about chivalry; the religious tracts are about religion. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-19 19:26:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The Confession of Faith which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by certain princes and cities.
I will speak of thy testimonies before kings, and will not be put to shame. — Psalm 119:46 Continue reading
Originally posted 2012-01-03 07:33:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
This fear is almost as universal as the fear of poverty, and its effects are just as fatal to personal achievement,mainly because this fear destroys initiative, and discourages the use of imagination. The major symptoms of the fear are: Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-18 17:17:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Every now and then I have introduced into my essays an element of truth. Things that really happened have been mentioned, such is meeting President Kruger or being thrown out of a cab. What I have now to relate really happened; yet there was no element in it of practical politics or of personal danger. Continue reading
Originally posted 2012-01-04 07:44:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero (1st Century BC, non-Christian)
There is a lot of nonsense about the importance of truth from skeptics and atheists nowadays. Why should truth be important in the first place? Now, as a Christian, I believe truth matters, because honesty and beauty and virtue matter, but these things stem from a particular understanding of the world and all human affairs. Continue reading
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Originally posted 2012-01-03 19:31:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
By this time, we have all had our laughs over “Monkeyville” and the public execution of the Missing Link, not least the Americans, who are fully alive to the fun of the fair, and most of all, perhaps, those astute Americans who are said to have used the whole scientific and philosophical controversy as a means of advertising the little town of Dayton in Tennessee. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-30 07:26:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Courage is more than bravery. Bravery is fearlessness- the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave, because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger; he doesn’t know enough to be afraid.
Courage, however, is that firmness of spirit, that moral backbone which, while fully appreciating the danger involved, nevertheless goes on with the undertaking. Bravery is physical; courage is mental and moral. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-12-29 07:50:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
An Old Debate
The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro, where Socrates asks Euthyphro: “Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” This seems to apply to righteousness in general though too. Continue reading
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Originally posted 2012-01-05 19:26:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Sometimes we are certain that we are right about something very important, but when pressed about it, the logic and reasoning behind the conviction are dizzying to explain. But defense is important, because it is God’s faith in you, and our minds and hearts need unity to glorify God (Eph:13; Rom 12). The setup of this defense is simple,
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Originally posted 2012-01-06 21:19:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
When we say that we doubt the intellectual improvement produced by Protestantism and Rationalism and the modern world, there generally arises a very confused controversy, which is a sort of tangle of terminology. But, broadly speaking, the difference between us and our critics is this. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-10-17 12:48:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Non-Christian but Useful Stand to Reason