The Electoral Path and the Path of Institutional Capture
While a lot of people are focusing on the Republicans red puddle and failure to make a splash, I’m more interested in the referendums for codifying abortion in the various…
Did Aristotle Believe in any Limits on Abortion?
One of the most common misreading of Aristotle is to hold that he believed that abortions should be limited only to fetuses before the onset of “life”. They would commonly…
The Illusion of Freewill and Words as Mental Technology
There is a philosophical argument against determinism based on the idea that we, internally within ourselves, are capable of deliberation, since we can deliberate and chose alternatives, ergo determinism is…
Praying Eyes Wide Shut
So this is a question I’ve been thinking about, what’s the origins of praying with one’s eyes closed, and how would it affect our phenomenology of God. As far as…
Presupposing other Minds and Lessons for Presuppositional Theology
So I’ve been discussing of late Plantinga’s observation that the philosophical problem of justifying the existence other minds is the same problem as that of justifying the existence of the…
God and the Other Minds Problem; Everyone is a Zombie but Me
I remember when I was about 11 or 12 I used to spend a lot of time thinking that maybe I was the only person in the whole world with…
Against Moral Principles
While we tend to think of the moral person as a “person of principle”, there is a philosophical position known as “Moral Particularism” which argues that the moral life has…
What does it mean to Love your Neighbour as Yourself in the Leviticus Context?
We are all familiar with Christ’s teaching concerning the Two Greatest Commandment: to Love God with all of oneself and to love our neighbour as ourselves. Given the teaching that…
All Science is Ultimately Premised on Genesis 2:19-20
And out of the ground Yahweh God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and He brought each to the man to see what…
The Inevitability of Religious Establishment; Should Churches be Incorporated?
Nowadays most churches would be incorporated, that means that you would register your church with a state which creates a legal organisation, as defined and regulated in law, with legal…