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Quick Thought: Why Do We Make of Faith a Virtue?
We all need hope and optimism, but this world provides very little actual evidence or good reasons for thinking hopeful and optimistic thoughts (such as that we survive the body after death, that God exists, or that our political leaders … Continue reading
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Is the Jesus of John’s Gospel Anti-Science?
In the Gospel of John, the apostle Thomas is famously (or rather, infamously) held up as a bad example to followers of Jesus, for he insisted upon evidence for Jesus’s resurrection. Look again at the famous passage from the Gospel of John … Continue reading
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The Doubting Thomas Award: Who Would I Give a Prize for Being a Model Doubter?
In a world where God is not there (or, at the very least, is not talking plainly), the two things that redeem existence from being a very, very large mistake are just two things: morality aesthetics By morality I mean … Continue reading
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“A Parable for Thomas”: a poem by Santi Tafarella
. Beauty is noticing the lonely Boulder on yonder hill casting . In your way a long black Tongue declaring that, yes, . The sun is rising, and you Need not ascend yourself . The hill, nor touch … Continue reading
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Today’s question: in the Bible, why didn’t God make critical thinking important?
If God exists, and really wrote the Bible, why didn’t He set critical thinking front and center in, say, the teachings of Moses or Jesus? Why, in other words, is God’s emphasis in the Bible upon the pragmatics of faith and obedience—but … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 