Theology That Bites Back
Alternative Education: As someone who lives a hop, skip, and jump away from the finest little school in town (yes, public) and with four little tikes needing an education, I am having a hard time picturing what a well-rounded alternative to the public school looks like for our family. Granted the Lord can provide from …
Introduction: I was going to title this piece Another French & Indian War, but when I looked it up I discovered that Sohrab Ahmari is of Iranian descent. So that didn’t work out, and let us hope that things improve a bit for me from here. And besides, this issue is not really about those …
“Everyone wants to pretend that he can postulate a magic balcony upon which a finite creature can stand, and from which vantage that finite creature can survey everything in the cosmos that has any epistemological bearing or significance at all. Part of the deal is that everyone agrees not to ask too many questions about …
“Finite creatures always have to begin from somewhere. Finite creatures have to start. God has created us in such a way as to be able to reason axiomatically, and for that to be the only way we could be able to reason. These axioms can be of pure reason (parallel lines don’t cross each other), …
“Epistemology is like taking your eyeballs out to look at them. If your optic nerve were elastic, and you could pull your eyeballs out and point them at each other, what exactly would you see?” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 80)
Introduction: So as we are being treated to the spectacle of the South rising again, challenging the authority of the Feds again, and this time doing it when they have the manifest moral high ground, it is time to examine some of the secular freak-out reaction to it, not to mention some of our reactions …
“We want to start at the very beginning and we think that the very beginning is ‘How can we know anything at all?’ And, once we have answered the question of how we know, we ask how we can possibly know that. And as it turns out, it really is turtles all the way down” …
Bible Reading Challenge: A regular reader here. Just wanted to write to say I’ll be taking part in the Bible Reading Challenge this summer. You write that “Tens of thousands of people are already involved in this movement. If it were hundreds of thousands, we would begin to see changes.” Perhaps (just perhaps) there are …
“When a man sits down in a chair, he certainly has faith in the chair. But it is the chair that holds him, not his faith. The faith does not provide an iota of additional strength to the chair. But the faith still sits” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 76).
