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The Christian Atheist is devoted to exploring all of life as it relates to faith in Christ. Philosophy, psychology, science, art and literature all contribute to our pursuit of Truth and the life that we are called to live, to the adventure of discovering the world and our place within it. The Author of the universe speaks to us through many means, and we try to attune our minds to all of them here, to discover and live the Way to Life through the Word, spoken, written and experienced. It IS possible to have respect for science, a fully rational outlook, a 21st century worldview AND be Christian. If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal via https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist
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Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
No Compromise is a new feature designed to make the themes and ideas of The Christian Atheist more accessible through conversation. As usual, Jenny's instincts are dead on - my dry didacticism requires a more popular appeal. It is our prayer that you find our discussions on No Compromise enlightening, entertaining and, more importantly, valuable in your walk with our Great God!
Qu'ils sont beaux les pieds!
In this episode Jenny and I begin a discussion on C. S. Lewis's THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE.
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Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
No Compromise is a new feature designed to make the themes and ideas of The Christian Atheist more accessible through conversation. As usual, Jenny's instincts are dead on - my dry didacticism requires a more popular appeal. It is our prayer that you find our discussions on No Compromise enlightening, entertaining and, more importantly, valuable in your walk with our Great God!
In this episode Jenny and I complete our discussion of C. S. Lewis's THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW, concentrating on the importance of the GARDEN motif.
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Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friday Jul 29, 2022
This week in an attempt to lighten the mood of the past few weeks, Jenny and I read and discuss C S Lewis's THE MAGIACIAN'S NEPHEW. This is the second part of our discussion.
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Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
This, our concluding episode to this series, will constitute two-weeks' worth of episodes. I did not have the heart to divide this episode into two, as it was written as an organic unit. Sorry for the length, but I could not wrap up the points more succinctly.
What is faith? From where does it originate? What does it mean to have evidence for what you believe? Is faith the foundation for knowledge, or knowledge the foundation for faith? Most atheists and theists have never thought systematically about these questions, but they are foundational for any rational conclusions we may draw about God's existence or non-existence.
We began our discussion by attempting to unravel the difficult issue of the evident, then we turned our attention to human rational freedom, the ideal and metaphysics. We conclude this week by discussing what I might term "fundamental faith," the often unspoken metaphysics that underlies what we believe and colors every aspect of our life and rational consideration. The scripture that grounds our discussion is the oft-repeated phrase in the Creation story of Genesis, "and God saw that it was good."
Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
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Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
No Compromise is an experimental new feature on The Christian Atheist. If you are a regular listener, you know my voice, AND you know our story, or as much of it as we’ve told on the Christian Atheist. My wife Jenny was the “looking-glass” through which I returned to Christ. I tell the story in episodes 2-8, “The Machinery of the Looking-Glass.”
Qu’ils sont beaux les pieds! Isaiah 52:7. (If you'd like to know the backstory on this, check out the Valentine's Day edition of our Simple Gifts podcast!)
On "No Compromise" we will discuss Christian Atheist themes – with each other, and, if you’ll join us, with you!
This week in an attempt to lighten the mood of the past few weeks, Jenny and I read and discuss C S Lewis's THE MAGIACIAN'S NEPHEW.
If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net
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Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
We resume our series examining the concepts of the evident, evidence and faith.
What is faith? From where does it originate? What does it mean to have evidence for what you believe? Is faith the foundation for knowledge, or knowledge the foundation for faith? Most atheists and theists have never thought systematically about these questions, but they are foundational for any rational conclusions we may draw about God's existence or non-existence. We begin our discussion by attempting to unravel the difficult issue of the evident, then we turn our attention to human rational freedom, the ideal and metaphysics. Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
Last episode we examined freedom and metaphysics in relation to the evident, and this week we explore the chosen and fundamental metaphysical stances that determine our rational approach to our world.
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Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
No Compromise is an experimental new feature on The Christian Atheist. If you are a regular listener, you know my voice, AND you know our story, or as much of it as we’ve told on the Christian Atheist. My wife Jenny was the “looking-glass” through which I returned to Christ. I tell the story in episodes 2-8, “The Machinery of the Looking-Glass.”
I am so excited today to introduce to you my Jenny, my Looking-glass! Qu’ils sont beaux les pieds! (If you'd like to know the backstory on this, check out the Valentines Day edition of our Simple Gifts podcast!)
On "No Compromise" we will discuss Christian Atheist themes – with each other, and, if you’ll join us, with you!
This week, Jenny and I read and comment on the article by Sophie Lewis, "Abortion Involves Killing - And That's OK!" by Sophie Lewis
Here is the Link to the article in The Nation, "Abortion Involves Killing - And That's OK!":
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-ethics-gestation-reproduction/
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
This installment is the concurring opinion of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself. Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling. IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
This installment is the concurring opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas.
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself. Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling. IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
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Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
No Compromise is an experimental new feature on The Christian Atheist. If you are a regular listener, you know my voice, AND you know our story, or as much of it as we’ve told on the Christian Atheist. My wife Jenny was the “looking-glass” through which I returned to Christ. I tell the story in episodes 2-8, “The Machinery of the Looking-Glass.”
I am so excited today to introduce to you my Jenny, my Looking-glass! Qu’ils sont beaux les pieds! (If you'd like to know the backstory on this, check out the Valentines Day edition of our Simple Gifts podcast!)
On "No Compromise" we will discuss Christian Atheist themes – with each other, and, if you’ll join us, with you!
Again, we concentrate our attention on the Dobbs Decision, the overturning of Roe v Wade after 49 years.
#READTHEDECISION
There is a great deal of accidental and deliberate misinformation and ignorance surrounding this decision and this topic. On our podcast reading of Justice Alito’s text, we make no editorial comments. We want EVERYONE - atheists and Christians, Left and Right, male and female – to read the decision with us. At least then we can base our discussions in reality and fact, not on hearsay and ideological distortion.
On this edition, Jenny and I discuss the Dissent, authored by Justice Kagan. In a word,
WE DISSENT!
Here is the Link to the article in The Nation, "Abortion Involves Killing - And That's OK!":
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-ethics-gestation-reproduction/
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Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
This installment is the Dissenting opinion of Justices Breyer, Kagan (author) and Sotomayor.
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself. Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling. IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
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Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
No Compromise is an experimental new feature on The Christian Atheist. If you are a regular listener, you know my voice, AND you know our story, or as much of it as we’ve told on the Christian Atheist. My wife Jenny was the “looking-glass” through which I returned to Christ. I tell the story in episodes 2-8, “The Machinery of the Looking-Glass.”
I am so excited today to introduce to you my Jenny, my Looking-glass! Qu’ils sont beaux les pieds! (If you'd like to know the backstory on this, check out the Valentines Day edition of our Simple Gifts podcast!)
On No Compromise we will discuss Christian Atheist themes – with each other, and, if you’ll join us, with you!
The hot topic this week is, of course, the Dobbs decision, the overturning of Roe v Wade after 49 years.
We took it upon ourselves to read the decision on The Christian Atheist for our listeners, and we posted it on YouTube and here on the Christian Atheist. We are hoping that you will help us spread the word.
#READTHEDECISION
There is a great deal of accidental and deliberate misinformation and ignorance surrounding this decision and this topic. On our podcast reading of Justice Alito’s text, we make no editorial comments. We want EVERYONE - atheists and Christians, Left and Right, male and female – to read the decision with us. At least then we can base our discussions in reality and fact, not on hearsay and ideological distortion.
If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net
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Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
This installment is the final part of the decision. Please stay tuned! We plan to also read the Dissent.
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself.
Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling.
IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
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Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
This installment is the second of three parts of the decision. Please stay tuned!
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself.
Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling.
IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net
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Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself.
This installment is the first half of the decision as drafted by Justice Alito. We will publish the final half in our next post. Please stay tuned!
Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling.
IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
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Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
We here at the Christian Atheist stand for Truth above all. The historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade is read here WITHOUT COMMENTARY.
This installment is the "Syllabus" or summary of the Ruling that preceded it. We will publish the ruling itself in succeeding editions. Please stay tuned!
If we are to meaningfully engage one another on this issue, we must do so by first INFORMING ourselves on the RULING itself.
Please send friends and opponents HERE to ground the debate in THE FACTS of the ruling.
IF YOU HAVEN'T "READ" THE RULING, WHY SHOULD WE TAKE YOUR OPINION ON IT SERIOUSLY?
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Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Important: episodes 58 and 59 are one continuous presentation. I separated them into two episodes because they are extremely dense and difficult. They are, however, very important in the ongoing development of our argument. Please consider them a single episode conveniently divided into bite-sized portions.
What is faith? From where does it originate? What does it mean to have evidence for what you believe? Is faith the foundation for knowledge, or knowledge the foundation for faith? Most atheists and theists have never thought systematically about these questions, but they are foundational for any rational conclusions we may draw about God's existence or non-existence. We begin our discussion by attempting to unravel the difficult issue of the evident, then we turn our attention to human rational freedom, the ideal and metaphysics. Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
Last episode we presented the foundational concept of the evident. This episode we examine freedom and metaphysics in relation to the evident.
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Important: episodes 58 and 59 are one continuous presentation. I separated them into two episodes because they are extremely dense and difficult. They are, however, very important in the ongoing development of our argument. Please consider them a single episode conveniently divided into bite-sized portions.
What is faith? From where does it originate? What does it mean to have evidence for what you believe? Is faith the foundation for knowledge, or knowledge the foundation for faith? Most atheists and theists have never thought systematically about these questions, but they are foundational for any rational conclusions we may draw about God's existence or non-existence. We begin our discussion by unraveling the difficult issue of the evident. Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
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Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
What is faith? From where does it originate? What does it mean to have evidence for what you believe? Is faith the foundation for knowledge, or knowledge the foundation for faith? Most atheists and theists have never thought systematically about these questions, but they are foundational for any rational conclusions we may draw about God's existence or non-existence. We begin our discussion by unraveling the difficult issue of the evident. Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
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Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
Our final episode addressing the question, Are we living in George Orwell's 1984?
You can listen to the whole novel on our Simple Gifts Podcast.
The preceding two episodes and this one were drafted as a unit. They should be digested together, as they form a single narrative.
This week we continue our analysis of doublethink. As Jenny and I walk our neighborhood each week, we see sign after sign proclaiming "Science is Real." This is meant as a provocation, as a supercilious critique, but properly understood it is DOUBLETHINK, as Wokism requires the denial of science while at the same time criticizing its opponents as "science deniers." This fundamental ability to hold and assert contradictory conceptions AS MEANS TO AN END is really nothing more than the will to lie, to deny what we know to be true, and to deny it so vehemently that we believe we are not denying it. It is the rational capacity to choose irrationality in order to achieve a desired end.
These episodes are introducing an episode (or series of episodes) of the Christian Atheist entitled, "The Evident, Evidence, and Faith," debuting next week. It is useful to illustrate the vision opposing the structures of Western liberal society that I am trying to explicate. This self-loathing opposition to the West is what I have been attempting to explain here at the Christian Atheist for our entire existence, which I have been trying to understand all my life. It is no mistake that the Hegelians, Marxists, neo-Marxists, Critical theorists, Postmoderns and Wokists hate this Western reality BECAUSE IT STANDS IN THE WAY OF THEIR ENDS.
George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, is, I think, the best example in literature of the logical outplaying of the post-Hegelian logic in practical politics. It is disheartening to compare today's Woke culture (and its ideological history/development) to Orwell's Oceania. Join us, and let me know what you think of the parallels.
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
We continue to address the question, Are we living in George Orwell's 1984?
You can listen to the whole novel on our Simple Gifts Podcast.
The preceding episode and the following one were drafted as a unit with this one. They should be digested together, as they form a single narrative.
This week we continue our analysis of doublethink. As Jenny and I walk our neighborhood each week, we see sign after sign proclaiming "Science is Real." This is meant as a provocation, as a supercilious critique, but properly understood it is DOUBLETHINK, as Wokism requires the denial of science while at the same time criticizing its opponents as "science deniers." This fundamental ability to hold and assert contradictory conceptions AS MEANS TO AN END is really nothing more than the will to lie, to deny what we know to be true, and to deny it so vehemently that we believe we are not denying it. It is the rational capacity to choose irrationality in order to achieve a desired end.
These episodes are introducing an episode (or series of episodes) of the Christian Atheist entitled, "The Evident, Evidence, and Faith." It is useful to illustrate the vision opposing the structures of Western liberal society that I am trying to explicate. This opposition to the West is what I have been attempting to explain here at the Christian Atheist for our entire existence, which I have been trying to understand all my life. It is no mistake that the Hegelians, Marxists, neo-Marxists, Critical theorists, Postmoderns and Wokists hate this Western reality BECAUSE IT STANDS IN THE WAY OF THEIR ENDS.
George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, is, I think, the best example in literature of the logical outplaying of the post-Hegelian logic in practical politics. It is disheartening to compare today's Woke culture (and its ideological history/development) to Orwell's Oceania. Join us, and let me know what you think of the parallels.
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Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
As we worked through Chapter 9 of part 2 of George Orwell's 1984 it was clear that we had too much material to complete the discussion we began last week in a single episode.
You can listen to the whole novel on our Simple Gifts Podcast, uninterrupted with my commentary.
This episode and the two following were drafted as a unit, but had to be divided into manageable portions; these ideas should be presented and digested together, as they form a single narrative
This week we begin with the theme that structures the remainder of these episodes. As Jenny and I walk our neighborhood each week, we see sign after sign proclaiming "Science is Real." It is meant as a provocation, but properly understood it is emblematic of what Orwell calls DOUBLESPEAK.
As we mentioned last week, these episodes are meant to introduce an episode (or series of episodes) of the Christian Atheist we are entitling "The Evident, Evidence, and Faith." I thought it might be useful to illustrate what I believe to be the opposing side to the positive faith-based vision that structures Western liberal society - the Hegelian vision I have been attempting to explicate here at the Christian Atheist for our entire existence, which I have been trying to understand all my life.
George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, is, I think, the best example in literature of the logical outplaying of the post-Hegelian logic in practical politics. It is disheartening to compare today's Woke culture (and its ideological history/development) to Orwell's Oceania. Join us, and let me know what you think of the parallels.
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Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
As we post this edition of the Christian Atheist, I am puzzling over an episode I am entitling "The Evident, evidence, and Faith." It is presenting me some thorny intellectual problems, and I needed some additional time to work them out. I thought it might be useful to illustrate what I believe to be the opposing side to the positive faith-based vision that structures Western liberal society, the Hegelian vision I have been attempting to explicate here at the Christian Atheist. George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, is, I think, the best example in literature of the logical outplaying of the post-Hegelian logic in practical politics. It is disheartening to compare today's Woke culture (and its ideological history/development) to Oceania's society. Join us, and let me know what you think of the parallels.
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Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
On March 24th, 2022, the Associates for Biblical Research announced the discovery of an ancient curse tablet (defixio) on Mount Ebal at the site of "Joshua's altar."
This is a potentially WORLD-SHAKING discovery, but the dust has not yet settled, and the academic war is only just beginning.
We must clearly understand what is at stake, and think seriously of what our faith depends on. We should also understand the value of such evidence in arguing our case for God, for Christ.
This, our 52nd episode, is in many ways an update to our discussion with the critic Max Doubt from episode 17 of the Christian Atheist. I would suggest that my listeners review that episode. I have listed a series of websites below for more information.
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Below find five important websites for further information on this topic:
https://biblearchaeology.org/current-events-list/4896-abr-researchers-discover-the-oldest-known-proto-hebrew-inscription-ever-found
ABR's announcement of the discovery with Dr. Scott Stripling
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-how-curse-inscription-from-the-west-bank-ended-up-in-israeli-and-american-hands-1.10718635
An article critical of the procedures with which this discovery came to light
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=949
Dr. Christopher Rollston offers important critical and methodological cautions on the discovery and its meaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdE9-55gMzo
Dr. Stripling answers questions
https://armstronginstitute.org/678-interview-with-dr-stripling-joshua-mt-ebal-and-the-discovery-of-an-ancient-hebrew-amulet
This announcement pre-dates the press conference, providing some details missing from that announcement
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Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Dorothy Sayers' brief essay, "The Triumph of Easter."
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Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
We conclude our series on faith and the Critic with an unanswered challenge to Socratic reasoning and some final remarks about faith and certainty.
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Is faith irrational? Can a logical distinction be made between belief and faith, such that belief is acceptance with evidence, whereas faith is acceptance without evidence? Atheists today seem to think they have a corner on understanding philosophical concepts that have been discussed for thousands of years. As so often happens in today's culture, we KNOW BETTER than all of human history, and most of humanity's greatest minds.
Our penultimate episode on the question of faith.
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
We continue to interact with the Critic over the nature of faith. Is faith in God different from believing in science? Are beliefs chosen, or are they imposed upon us? We see that these questions are linked to the metaphysical issue of free will.
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
We continue our series of "Responses to the Critic" this week with a conversation on the nature of faith. I argue that faith is the foundation upon which ALL of rational human existence is built, including science. As an atheist, recognizing this truth was essential in my return to theism. I fought the conclusion very hard, as does every atheist I discuss it with, but in the end the principle of "truth above all, and at all costs" forced me to recognize it.
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Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
One of my favorite conversations with a Facebook atheist was over the historicity of Jesus. I was stunned when a critic responded to me that "Jesus and his disciples ... never existed." Even as an atheist it never occurred to me to deny that Jesus was an historical person. I questioned the mythology that I felt had grown about him, the supernatural stuff, but his historical existence seemed to me to be beyond serious question. My astonishment at the claim is evident in my responses. I hope that you find this exchange valuable.
BTW ... this particular critic was a decent guy. We ended on good terms, and I actually liked him as a human being. I haven't had any recent contact, but I wish him well, and he is in my prayers when God brings him to mind.
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Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
There is much to be learned from a dialogue with an intelligent critic. Join me as I try to adequately express my faith in God and address difficult questions.
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Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
There is much to be learned from a dialogue with an intelligent critic. Join me as I try to adequately express my faith in God and address difficult questions.
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Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
I was puzzled in my early school life by a question whose answer I discovered in graduate school. Why do intellectuals in the West default to blaming our culture for all the world's ills? In many ways it was this question that drove me to the study of philosophy, to abandoning my Christian faith. As I unraveled an answer in graduate school and academic life, I also found my way back to Christ, or perhaps He was always leading me onward and upward as I seriously sought Truth. Join me in the journey.
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Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Karl Marx sets himself in opposition to Hegel, but in doing so actually only more deeply instantiates all the poisonous seeds of Hegel's philosophy. In both Marxist and National Socialist incarnations, prescriptive Hegelianism as a ruling ideology was catastrophic in the 20th century. Yet instead of abandoning the ideology we continue to double-down on it in new and various forms, progressively marching through our institutions, infecting them with Hegelian reasoning and metaphysics. It is so successful because it appeals to our human nature, and it makes us feel superior to all that came before us, to the stable elements of our world, which it paints as both retrogressive and oppressive, and points to the perfectible future which is infinitely preferable, and which it alone can deliver. It is, in other words, a religion without a transcendent God.
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Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
The Ugly Hegel begins with his most famous pupil, Marx, whose practical outplay makes his ideology the most murderous and tyrannous in all human history. By their fruits you will know them, Jesus said, and when we set the historical record against Marxism and the Capitalist Western liberal democratic vision, "freedom is the victor," as President Reagan said in his famous Brandenburg Gate speech.
Why do I spend so much time explicating the origin of our present godlessness? We must understand who we are, and why, and then we can take action to counter the error and re-establish God in His seat. Until we do, we can expect things to get worse.
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The following are resources for further research and understanding. 'Be ye wise as serpents, and gentle as doves.'
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Statistics on totalitarian states:
https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/CHARNY.CHAP.HTM
I would also like to suggest Stephen Hicks' EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM, Chapter 5: The Crisis of Socialism. It is available on YouTube, read by the author, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gSISuvvQks
I do not agree with all of Hicks' analyses or conclusions, but his analytical commentary on the history of socialism is compact and accurate.
In addition, I cannot recommend too highly the work of James Lindsay in his New Discourses podcast. He understands Hegel better than nearly anyone else out there, and has a talent for clearly explicating difficult material.
https://newdiscourses.com/
https://newdiscourses.com/2022/01/theology-marxism/
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Like episodes 38 and 39, episodes 40 and 41 form a unit, written together but separated because of length and complexity. Please listen to both as a unit.
Having seen both the good and the bad of Hegel, it is time now for the ugly, those philosophers I have termed the "prescriptive Hegelians." Hegel's inversion of value, the rejection of transcendence and embrace of immanence, which is the foundational move of his philosophy, is also the mother of all prescriptions, laying the groundwork for all who follow. If there is no transcendent God (summum bonum), god does not go away; He changes form. Instead of being the Being we encounter, that we seek to understand and know, god becomes the value we choose to embrace. Man in rejecting God becomes god, just as Nietzsche predicted.
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Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
In this podcast we conclude our analysis of what in Hegel himself set us up for the radical value-inversion that is causing the Western Implosion, and point to the progressive malignancy of the Progressive Hegelians, beginning in Marx.
Bad Hegel is the value inversion of immanence denying transcendence, playing out in the following: 1) an emphasis on the collective over the individual; 2) a progressively radical relativism as Spirit, Reason, loses its universal status as center; 3) a resulting fragmentation of reason into competing factions; 4) an embrace of contradiction (alternatively stated, the denial of logic as limit to reason’s pretensions), that is, a progressive loss of rationality constrained and limited by the real; 5) a retrospective contempt for what is and has been; 6) a morality of ends justifying whatever means are effective in bringing them forth, and thereby 7) the death of Truth, morality and the Western God. We shall see each of these themes playing out over the remainder of our series.
James Lindsay's New Discourses podcast is a rich resource for my listeners. I would in particular point you to:
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/08/calamity-scientific-gnosticism/
https://newdiscourses.com/?s=Hegel
Lindsay first alerted me to the connection of Hegelian thinking to the religious heresy of Gnosticism. New Discourses is also THE best resource on the practical outplay of Hegelian thinking in our present day reality. I cannot recommend it too highly.
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Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Episodes 38 and 39 were written as a unit, and divided only for time-constraint and for intellectual density. They should be digested together.
Hegel's denial of transcendence is the fundamental wrong-turn that has shaped our contemporary scene. It was an inversion of value itself, as Nietzsche declared, the 'death of God.' In this episode we continue our analysis of where Hegel set us up for what has become the most destructive ideological takeover in world history.
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Although we pointed out last time that there is a great deal to appreciate in Hegel's work, he remains the point of departure for two centuries of progressive thought that has produced catastrophic consequences on the world stage, and now actively threatens to destroy the foundations of the liberal Western tradition that has raised the human condition to its highest material affluence, virtually eliminating abject poverty.
In this and the following two episodes, we seek to lay out the functional facets of Hegel's thought that laid the foundation for the most destructive inversion of value ever produced by human beings. Again, this is not to say that everything done and said in the Hegelian tradition is wrong. This is not the case. Hegel and the post-Hegelians are not so much wrong as TWISTED. They are not illogical. They make sense, and they appeal to our dearest moral sentiments, which makes them all the more dangerous, as they stand on the inversion of the truth, value, and meaning that built, sustained, and slowly but steadily improved the human condition for centuries.
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Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Welcome to the Christian Atheist, Season Two!
Let this Inaugural episode stand as a mission statement. It was the Incarnation that overwhelmed me in the person of my wife, Jenny, and allowed me to step back through the looking-glass to Christ in 2019. I love her today with, as Poe said, 'a love that is more than love.' That Incarnation is an even greater Mystery to me now than in 2019! May God's blessings rest on us, and His corrections be our humble submissions. I am as far from perfect as any man can be, as those who are closest to me know best. May God use these frail and faulty clay pots for His purposes.
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Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
A very Merry Christmas to all our listeners here at the Christian Atheist. Jenny and I pray that God's richest blessings are yours no matter where YOU stand before the Looking Glass!
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
The Christian Atheist podcast will return in January 2022 with new episodes. Please listen to our Simple Gifts podcast throughout the month of December for classical Christmas storytelling, beginning with Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and including "The gift of the Magi," and Eliot's "Journey of the Magi," along with "The Man Who Missed Christmas," "Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect" "The Other Wise Man," and the Luke 2 Christmas story.
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Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
One of the major goals of this series is to acquaint my listeners with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) and his philosophy. We must know the enemy, as he is us. We have so deeply internalized Hegel's logic that we seem unable to see beyond it, and we are today reaping the consequences of confining ourselves within immanence. Once we see the cage, we can move beyond it.
Hegel, however, is not all bad - not by a long shot. In fact, Hegel and even those who followed him have important perennial insights to offer us. His narrative dialectical logic gives us a profound tool to understand the Shadowlands in which we dwell. I used this tool to illuminate the conflict between atheists and theists in our last series of podcasts. In addition, Hegel himself (in opposition to those who followed him) restrained his reach to description, to explaining what is, to "carving nature at the joints." So while he arrogates to himself the perspective of God, he embraces the central value of creation. This Hegelian "humility," if we can call it that, prevents him from falling prey to many of the fatal errors of his progeny, which I will call the "prescriptive Hegelians." It was this humility that caused Hegel to deeply respect tradition, the wisdom of Conservatism, a wisdom that, unbalanced, can itself be dangerous.
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
In our series on atheism I discovered that credal atheists represent a very limited threat to theism, both because their intellectual position is weak, being ungrounded, and because what most Enlightenment atheists really want and how they act tends to betray their credal stance. This sort of atheist is only about 5% of the US population, though significantly more in Europe.
What our two-track Hegelian definition of atheism also reveals, though, is that there is a far more robust and pernicious manifestation of the spirit of atheism, one that has been with us for a very long time, but has never reached such broad acceptance before in the Western world. Its modern incarnation, I claim, finds its origin in the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This is the introductory podcast in our next series devoted to what I am calling the "implosion of the West."
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Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
In a conceptually complex series of podcasts like our series on Defining Atheism, many thoughts don't "make the cut." Here are some of my thoughts left over from this 6 part series, making this the seventh!
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Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
We conclude our series on the definitions of atheism by propounding the Problem of Value for atheism, a problem as vexing as the Problem of Evil for Western theism.
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Having proposed a dialectical definition for atheism, we briefly explore the nature of Hegelian logic, concluding that it is inadequate for a final answer, but useful for understanding the nature of things in this world of becoming, where ideal limits are indicated but unattained.
In order to properly understand atheism (the Antithesis in Hegelian dialectical terms) we must better understand theism (the Thesis), and it seems as though Western theism represents God in a series of ideals that enable us to think rationally, and values that make up our experience. As atheists do not generally deny most of the things "God" means, what are they denying when they deny theism? Is it merely the personality of divinity, or is it something more?
I suggest that atheism has a problem analogous to Western theism's problem of evil. We will call it the problem of Value.
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Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
While defining atheism as 'a lack of belief in a god or gods' fails in its attempt to define away the essential faith-structure of atheism, it does suggest another way of understanding the theist/atheist conflict. If we understand the "lack of belief" as active rather than passive in its import, we can understand this definition of atheism as 'living as if god does not exist.' So long as we can maintain the distinction between creed and action ("living"), this understanding does absolve the atheist from the charge of faith in a proposition as definitive of their position. Regrettably, such a distinction cannot be maintained, as what we think, what we believe, what we value as human beings is integral to our action as rational creatures. We are not acting when our rationality is not involved, but reacting.
If, however, we think of atheism and theism as a belief-continuum, rather than as discrete positions, the suggestion of this definition can be quite helpful. Atheism, then, becomes the propensity to deny god any place in our thoughts and actions, while theism is the progressive tendency to include god in our thoughts and actions. We should be clear here that what is at issue is the very notion of "faith" itself. To believe on this definition means an integration of mind and body, of action and thought, and the truest of beliefs are those that are most clearly represented in our actions. Thus, for the atheist, the urge to purge god from all aspects of human existence would be both a practical and a theoretical end. The beauty of this definition is that is makes room for all the real differences among atheists that I constantly encounter, and with which I am constantly charged with "straw manning." Everyone will find some place on this continuum. It is a story rather than a proposition or position. It is, that is, a dialectical definition.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
While I do not expect most of my atheist critics to acknowledge it (which is why this constant dance is necessary), I think it is well-established now that atheism is faith, as is theism, and that each time the atheist retreats from their faith-postulate that God (or god/s) does not exist, their position of retreat is agnosticism, not atheism. The advantage of agnosticism is that it is fully defensible, not faith. Socratic ignorance is the human condition, but to move forward we have to take a position, which requires faith, whether as an atheist or as a theist.
This week we examine the last-gasp claim that atheism is a lack of belief in god/s, which atheists assert in order to deny that atheism is faith. We show why this attempt fails logically. There is, however, a fascinating way to understand this proposed definition that may salvage it, offering a new perspective that concentrates attention on the definition of "faith" in the theist/atheist debate that may yield fruit for discussion and understanding.
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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
The second definition for atheism that we discussed last episode, that atheism is the claim that we do not have sufficient reason or evidence to believe in God, is meant to sidestep the problems we highlighted in the first definition for atheism, the assertion that God does not exist, allowing the atheist to neither assert the non-existence of God (which requires as Hitchens said, an “impossible” burden of proof), nor to acknowledge that atheism is itself a belief, a faith stance.
In this episode we argue that the atheist is logically frustrated in BOTH these expectations, that atheism is necessarily a faith-stance, and that if it doesn't assert God's non-existence it isn't atheism at all, but agnosticism.
Also, the question of God's existence is unlike other questions, as it is, indeed, as the atheist asserts, not provable from any perspective other than God's; the finite cannot contain or grasp the infinite. This question also stands at the highest level of explanatory choice. We choose to believe or not to believe in God, and our choice will necessarily affect all our other explanatory choices. For instance, start with the claim that God does not exist, and by logical extension there can be no evidence for God, just as the atheist asserts.
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