Gloating over the death of God
The first real philosopher I ever read was Bertrand Russell. And I didn’t read him for his philosophy; I read his classic atheist treatise Why I am Not a Christian. I was still in high school, and a...
View ArticleSartwell’s Faith-Based Atheism
Sartwell in (Faith-Based Atheism) provides a better exposition of what I was getting at in my post Gloating over the Death of God. He points out, rightly, that the choice for atheism is not perfectly...
View ArticleCan revelation be induced?
I can’t create my own god any more than I can create my own language. If I posit the existence of a god, I can just as easily posit its non-existence, therefore the authority that I would want it to...
View ArticleSpirit of My Universe
In my continuing quest to find a power greater than myself who can aid me in aleviating my severe akrasia I have had a recent insight into the spiritual domain that might work. Since the greatest...
View ArticleAkrasia Anonymous
“Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.” Rom. 7:20 (NIV) I attended my first AA meeting in 1986. Roughly a third of my days since...
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