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God: The Decider

God: The Decider

Popular theologian and preacher John Piper, a Calvinistic Baptist, professes image of God that I call “The Decider.” Here’s Piper, playing defense for his genocidal deity: It’s right for God to slaughter women and...

Echoes on the Road

Echoes on the Road

“What seems to me to be constitutive of the religious is, therefore, the fact of crediting a word, in accordance with a certain code and within the limits of a certain canon.  I would...

Undercover Ethics

Undercover Ethics

Several readers of yesterday’s post–on the topic of lying to expose some truth–raised the practice of undercover investigations as a counter example to my thesis, asking if I would consider undercover work unethical for...

Deceiving for Your Truth

Deceiving for Your Truth

Two recent news stories caught my eye for the same reason: both are about instances of the increasingly popular phenomenon of undercover activists deceiving their targets in order to expose some alleged truth about...

God Isn’t Here

God Isn’t Here

Thunder, wind, and hail woke us up about 3:00 am last night.  At the kind command of my wife, I got out of bed, stumbled downstairs, and got online to check for any tornado...

Spotify Challenge for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fans

Spotify Challenge for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fans

I need your help, friends, with putting together a Spotify playlist of thirty-three tracks from science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, or otherwise otherworldly films, television shows, and video games. Please leave suggestions in the...

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