Persuading a Pelagian on the Need for Grace in Freewill
This was a conversion I had some time back. I thought I would record it here. Pelagian: The fact is that the soul must be willing to enter Heaven. It must be…
Neo-Liberals Suddenly Discover Stigma and Manners; On the Old Literati versus the New Literati
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people, then, the democratic norms and processes, which from time to time we have to suspend! -Lee Kuan Yew…
The Postmodern Morality of the Roman Catholic Contraceptive Ethic
Paloma García Ovejero, Cadena COPE (Spain): Holy Father, for several weeks there’s been a lot of concern in many Latin American countries but also in Europe regarding the Zika virus.…
Common Law Contra Constitutionalism on Defending Liberty
I’ve been thinking lately about the basis of a commonwealth. After reading the Opium War book I pretty much lost my belief in macho macro nation-states. I still like things…
Roger Scruton’s Image of an Old British Colonialist
Mr Chapman taught physics in the upper sixth. He had read natural sciences at Cambridge, and even done research under the great Lord Rutherford, who imparted to him a passion…
In Defence of the Donald’s Christian Credentials
I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make…
Three Types of Reasons for Believing the Gospel
(1) The “Felt-Needs” Motivation If you’ve hung around charismatic or pentecostal circles long enough, then you’ll know what the phrase “felt-needs” refers to the needs which we deeply feel or…
On the Oddity of Criticising Justifying Means with Ends
One of the strangest moral axioms of our time is that the ends do not justify the means. To such a claim I go, what else justify the means except…
Against the National Narrative that the British Failed to Protect Singapore during WWII
Since today is Total Defence Day for Singapore, I thought I would write the following piece against using the Fall of Singapore to justify our national defence. In Singapore there…
The One-Over-Many as a Pseudo Philosophical Problem
(The following is taken from Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny’s Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language.) What we will discuss is another central problem of traditional…