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Yes Gene, God Knows the Future

Gene Callahan has an odd post where he writes: It might seem that the doctrine of divine omniscience means that God knows the future. Many have so interpreted it. I think that is wrong. God can only know what can be known. But the future is just a name we use for what has not […]

Keira Knightley Has Been Naughty

I know, a cheap provocative post title–but at least I’m not putting up any pics. This article explains: The atheist actress, star of A Dangerous Method, said she is desperate to be Catholic because she would “just get to ask for forgiveness”. She added: “It sounds much better than having to live with guilt. “It’s […]

Potpourri

==> Rob Bradley has some neat quotes from Milton Friedman, some of which I’ve never seen before. ==> Arthur Laffer and Ford Scudder lay out the looming “fiscal cliff.” Some big numbers for tax-rate increases that are currently in the cards. ==> The grand shi strategy of Ron Paul. ==> The mischievous von Pepe sends […]

After Further Review, I Still Don’t Think Jesus Wants His Followers to Kill Gay People

In the comments of my last post (we missed a week because of blog host shenanigans), Ken B. provided links (here and here) that show Christians themselves wondering about the authenticity of the famous gospel story in which Jesus says, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” I also talked with two […]

Why Don’t I Spend All My Time Reading About Church History?

Thorn-in-my-side Ken B. made a comment earlier in the week that I’ve seen in several places, in varying forms. So I will quote him here, but realize the point goes beyond Ken B.’s particular question. Here’s Ken: So a question Bob: I refuted the historicity of the story of the woman taken in adultery, showing […]

How to Amaze Jesus

I read a familiar gospel passage the other day, but took something away from it that had previously escaped my notice (in bold below): Mark 6:1-6 New King James Version (NKJV) Jesus Rejected at Nazareth 6 Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. 2 And […]

God, the Hidden Tyrant?

Just a quick note: A while ago I linked to a 10-minute Christopher Hitchens video, in which he set out to disprove the existence of God. What he actually did was argue why the God of Western monotheism was a tyrant, and why he (Hitchens) was glad such a God didn’t exist. One of the […]

There Are Christian Anarchists

This is going to be a brief post since I have been traveling all day, coming back from Porcfest (which was awesome, by the way, but more on that as the video becomes available). Anyway, while at Porcfest I was chatting with an economics colleague, and she said that someone at dinner was stunned to […]