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. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Theology'
Abortion and Capital Punishment: No Contradiction
August 2nd, 2007 1 Comment
Tags: Abortion · Alvin Plantinga · Beverly Harrison · Capital Punishment · Ethics · Feticide
The Flat Earth Myth
July 18th, 2007 2 Comments
A few days ago I got sent the following message from a high-school student in the US. I’ve been studying Christopher Columbus in my history class and my history books say that prior to Columbus everyone did think the world was flat……..I don’t know if it was a mistake in the history book or your […]
Tags: Dark Ages · flat earth · Religious History · Urban Myths
Things They Don’t Teach you in Public Schools…
July 4th, 2007 2 Comments
Tonight I watched an ad on TV which has a man congratulating New Zealanders for being the first to give women the vote. This ad reminded me of the following picture which I discovered in Alvin Schmidt’s book “How Christianity Changed the World.” The picture on this page shows women voting at the polls in […]
Tags: Christian History · Historical Ignorance · Urban Myths · Voting
Misrepresenting Catholic Theology
December 28th, 2006 1 Comment
The Herald has run a story with the no-brainer title “Patient dies after machine unplugged“. According to the article an italian doctor turned off a patient’s life support system (did the title of the article give you a clue?) at his request. The article went on to suggest that this might be illegal euthanasia, outlined […]
Tags: Ethics · Euthanasia · God and Morality · Theology
In Remembrance of the Religious Right
November 29th, 2006 1 Comment
Many people gained their freedom because of the religious right and the determination of one man to impose his unpopular religious beliefs onto society through the state.
Tags: Religion in Public Life · Slavery · William Wilberforce
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.
Why Do Feminists not seem to Care?
July 13th, 2007 2 Comments
I found this excellent article on Iranpressnews. It asks the insightful question why does the fate of Muslim women suffering under oppressive regimes not appear to matter to western feminists? And offers an insightful critique of the banalities and trivialities of western feminism.
Tags: Feminism · Islam