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Uhg, Guiness. That makes baby Jesus cry. Blue Moon, on the other hand, is actually baby-Jesus approved.

I do enjoy a good climbing tree.

To quote the brilliant Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason to get up in the morning?

I'd recommend it - his devotional writings are terrific. Very calming to read, since it's written in prayer-mode. Not that different from how Augustine's 'Confessions' sounded.

They obviously threw off the intolerant, close-minded, warring shackles of religion - I can only hope I see the light.

Good thing these guys are so tolerant and non-warlike in their dealings with people with whom they disagree.

Oddly enough, it seems that divine simplicity, when followed to its logical conclusion and in a Calvinist framework, leads to Hinduism: 'A major problem with Scholasticism is the innate desire that all men have to participate directly and ontologically in their God. We all want that real...

This is an interesting thread, which seems to be a pretty rare thing on this forum. At any rate, I actually (oddly enough) find myself more in agreement with the non-theists here than the theists. But I've come to see the normal Christian thoughts on morality/ethics as severely lacking. IMO...

I had to put down a pet. Probably the most painful thing I've ever done - but it was necessary, as the quality of life was basically zero. You're in my prayers.

'Jesus said that my bread is to do the will of my father. I'm all the time being asked by people "How do you feel closer to God?" And I kinda wanna say...I don't know. When I read the lives of most of the great saints I get the sense that they didn't necessarily feel close to God. When I read...

It wasn't, but it sounded like it was. Sorry. I'm sick as a freakin dog right now. As an argument for morality, it's a pretty tight one, I think. What's brilliant is his attack on very small, subtle things (in this case, things as small as grammar) that turn out to later have huge influences...

I'm well aware that there is no such thing as a bulletproof idea. I happen to think my view is solid - I also happen to know that it's not an impregnable fortress that I defend from any and all comers. I do think it's the more solid of the lot (yes, I have read that article, and many others). If...

I think this is where you're making a mistake. God doesn't 'know' just because He is omniscient or has foreknowledge or is in 'some ever-present immutable now' - otherwise you couldn't get around determinism of some kind. Rather He knows existentially on the basis of having ever been the end as...

'The Abolition of Man,' is one of the better-argued cases Lewis makes for morality -at least the first two parts. The Appendix is basically just a 'lots of people have thought this way for a long time so they must be right'. His social criticisms and predictions are absolutely spot on though.

The parallel drawn here is simply to show that being observed doesn't infringe on the free-ness of any given act - I'm not sure how the comparison isn't valid. I don't think your criticism of his idea is sound. I don't understand this. You'll have to explain it. I'm willing to take it at...

I've spent a good amount of time studying Bonhoeffer - IMO, you aren't going to get into his thought without reading 'Creation, Fall, Temptaion,' and his christology lectures, 'Christ the Center.' Those books are where his foundational presuppositions are worked out and pretty much provide the...

This is why I'm not a fan of the classical theistic account of 'foreknowledge'. It either leads to determinism (or some silly account of compatablism) or open theism. Molinism does a decent job of fixing things, but it still seems to not take account of God's eternality, as articulated by C.S...

‎’As the Christian sees things, God does not stand idly by, cooly observing the suffering of His creatures. He enters into and shares our suffering. He endures the anguish of seeing his son, the second person of the Trinity, consigned to the bitterly cruel and shameful death of the...

Ah, one of the few astronomical sights I've yet to see. One of the great things about being an amateur astronomer is that you get to sit in on the heavens declaring the glory of God.