“No Christian is pessimistic about final glory. But most Christians are pessimistic about the course of history prior to the Second Coming of Christ. In this view, the world is God’s Vietnam, and the return of Christ consists of the few lucky ones helicoptered off a roof during the fall of Saigon” (Heaven Misplaced, pp. …
The Need to Be Thankful
“One of the principle failings in atheism is that it leaves us with no one to thank for the countless blessings we encounter daily. This extends from trivial things, like the pleasure we get from pulling our socks up, to more amazing gifts, like food, and music, and marriage” (Letter From a Christian Citizen, p. …
Gathered It All to His Chest
“Jesus died and in that death He embraced the pollutions of a very polluted world. He took onto Himself the wrath and anger of God, and He did this so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. He gathered up a world full of hatred, adultery, treachery, rape, murder, envy, genocide, religious …
Medicinal Abstractions Don’t Heal Anyone
“Two inches of snow on a dung heap can look pretty nice, but it doesn’t address the deeper problem. So if we sinful men go left, we sin on the left. If we go right, we sin on the right. If we become atheists, we sin there. If we become Jehovah’s Witnesses, we sin there …
Racisim That Goes Clean to the Bone
“Given the fact that human beings evolved from primates, as you asserted earlier, is there any a priori reason why a consistent evolutionist wouldn’t cheerfully agree that one race of human beings could certainly be lower on the evolutionary tree than the others? Any reason why, when we get to homo sapiens, magic suddenly intervenes …
Atheism As an Epistemic Hoot
“On your account I am one set of complex chemical reactions secreting something that I falsely believe to be arguments to another set of complext chemical reactions who falsely believes that he is reading them . . . if you apply reason and self-criticism to an atheistic examination of ethics, you should discover within ten …
Seriously Religitudinous
“For Christians, this is beside the point. We don’t believe religion is the answer. We believe Christ is the answer. When you combine religion with sinners, what you get is religious sin. And when you combine serious religion with sinners, what you get is serious religious sin. All this does is confirm one of the …
You Can’t Get Ten Pounds of Information
“Scientists who have their satellite dishes pointed toward the sky in the hope of hearing from intelligent life out there know how to distinguish incoming messages from background noise. Otherwise, there would be no point. We know what information looks like, and we know what kind of source it comes from. This is because information …
And With Our Guidons Flapping Smartly
“Of course, we were bound to get to the subject of evolution sooner or later . . . You think that creationists are bereft of any intellectual dignity whatever, and I agree with Malcolm Muggeridge that in retrospect evolution will be seen to have been one of the great jokes of history. Well, if your …
Logic Without Color or Weight
“Once you grant that the world workds this way, anyone who comes bustling up to you with stories about men who came back from the dead is a prima facie nutjob. Simple. But you need to look at your closed-system-universe again and look more closely at the price tag this time. Not only is this …