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Was Jesus Funny?

I have been reading–and adoring–a collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton (Heretics). In “On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity” he writes: Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny, and of nothing else….Whether […]

Thoughts on Marco Rubio and the Age of the Earth

Hold on to your hats, kids, I think I will alienate 95% of the blogosphere with this one (and without even cursing)… Marco Rubio has been getting hammered in the blogosphere from both right and left for his coy answer when a GQ interviewer asked him about the age of the Earth. The irony is, […]

Libertarians Love Homesteading Theory Except If God Exists

I don’t want to link to our comments because nothing he said was unusual, but last week I got into it with a critic here about God violating people’s natural rights. In other words, my critic was claiming that we can use our reason to derive rights that human beings possess, and that’s how we […]

Jesus Conquers Facebook Too

A silly title but you’ll see where I’m going with this… As I get older and observe more of human society, I realize just how clueless I was as a teenager, on all sorts of things. At the same time, since I became a born-again Christian and attend weekly church services in that tradition, I […]

Ricky Gervais’ Non Sequitur

On Facebook someone posted this:

Did Jesus Die for Everyone’s Sins?

This post is intended for genuine believers in Christ, or at least, those who are intimate with the Christian worldview. If you are the type of person who thinks it’s completely obvious that there’s no God, that the idea of sacrifice or vicarious atonement is repugnant, etc., there are plenty of Sundays when I’m happy […]

Render Unto Benjamin What Is Benjamin’s

Just a quick one tonight: I was explaining to my son all of the cool examples of Jesus swatting away the traps that the religious leaders were laying for Him, and of course I discussed the question of whether it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar. (Incidentally, I really set this up for him–he’s […]

Does Metaphysics Matter?

Suppose you started your day the way you always had the last 20 years, thinking that reality itself is the result of realizations of random variables, and that the only reason life is possible in this universe is that it is one of an infinite number of possible universes. Then, at lunchtime, you somehow become […]