I am so sick of listening to everyone’s two cents of the causes of violence in our families, in our communities, sick of it because they are complicating the simple and putting band aids on broken legs. Responsibility for ones actions – that is what is missing in this ‘whats the cause of violence’ blather. […]
Entries from August 7th, 2007
Violence is NOT a Disease.
August 7th, 2007 Comments Off on Violence is NOT a Disease.
Tags: Domestic Violence · Personal Responsibility · Public Policy
Paul Litterick on Religion and Public Life: A second Look
August 7th, 2007 Comments Off on Paul Litterick on Religion and Public Life: A second Look
In a previous post I criticised an argument made by Paul Litterick for the conclusion that theological arguments should not affect public policy. Paul has responded saying that this post consisted of a “lengthy misrepresentation of [his] views” Now I do not wish to caricature anyone’s views. I would rather refute Paul’s actual arguments than […]
Correspondence from Dr Bill Cooke
August 6th, 2007 1 Comment
I received the following last night: Dear Matthew Thank you telling your readers you apologised for not seeking my side of the story with regard to the Visiting Associate Professor imbroglio. I appreciate your honesty there. However, I was dismayed to read a new litany of innuendo about this. I am depressed that you should […]
Tags: Bill Cooke · Rationalists
Religion and Public Life: A Response to Russell Brown and Paul Litterick
August 3rd, 2007 11 Comments
Paul Litterick was recently interviewed by Russell Brown on Public Address. The topic predictably is his criticism of conservative Christian groups whom Russell appears to have no time for. Here I will make to criticisms of this broadcast, first one of Russell Brown and the second of Litterick. Turning first to Russell Brown; Brown mentioned […]
Tags: Christopher Eberle · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Paul Litterick · Philip Quinn · Rationalists · Religion in Public Life
Abortion and Capital Punishment: No Contradiction
August 2nd, 2007 1 Comment
This blog post has been published in Think: A Journal of the Royal Institute for Philosophy 6 (2008) 87-92, which is a journal of Cambridge University. One argument I frequently hear is that opposition to feticide, the killing of a human fetus, is inconsistent with support for capital punishment. Some times this argument is pushed even further. […]
Tags: Abortion · Alvin Plantinga · Beverly Harrison · Capital Punishment · Ethics · Feticide
Caricature at no god zone
August 1st, 2007 Comments Off on Caricature at no god zone
As a person who studies theology and philosophy I have, over the years, read some brilliant skeptics; John Mackie and Paul Draper come to mind. I also have become reasonably informed about the debate over theism in the literature. Consquently, I have a good idea when the issues are being caricatured. Unfortunately rebuttal of a […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Hell Pizza · Libertarianism · William Alston
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
