An acquaintance of mine sent me a copy of this article at Gaynz.com by Craig Young. Craig and I have a kind of knack at studying the very same topics at the same time. He wrote a PhD thesis criticising conservative Christian views on abortion around the same time I started writing my PhD thesis […]
Entries Tagged as 'Capital Punishment'
Abortion and Capital Punishment and Craig Young
October 25th, 2007 8 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Bad Reasoning · Capital Punishment · Craig Young · Feticide · Jim Peron · NAMBLA
Texan Justice and Liberal fiction
August 19th, 2007 Comments Off on Texan Justice and Liberal fiction
Texas is about to perform it’s 400th execution since capital punishment was reinstated in 1982. Stuff has an interesting article on this entitled “Religion, Culture Behind, Texas Execution Tally” The article suggests that outsiders find it puzzling that evangelical Christians support capital punishment. This surprise, I suggest, reflects the theological and historical ignorance of these […]
Tags: Capital Punishment · Ethics
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
Saddam Dead
December 30th, 2006 Comments Off on Saddam Dead
At 4pm Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad, was executed. Saddam deserved to die. I do not think anybody believes he was innocent of serious crimes. This dictator murdered and tortured thousands of innocent people including women and children. I have had the misfortune of reading some of the accounts of Saddam’s atrocities from firsthand […]
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Saddam to be Executed Soon
December 27th, 2006 Comments Off on Saddam to be Executed Soon
Saddam will be executed 25 Jan 2007. While I will not celebrate his execution I am pleased that it is happening.
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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.
