The Christian Atheist
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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Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
We continue a series on our interviews over the past two years. This week John talks with Matt Matias, of MemeLord Mondays.
An interview with The Christian Atheist's, Dr. John Wise, entitled "What Do I Say To An Atheist About My Faith," hosted by MemeLord Monday's, Matt Matias.
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#memelordmonday #evident #evidence #god #belief #sarte #metaphysical #humanrationalfreedom #humanrationality #freedom #religion #lookingglass #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelianism
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
We begin a series on our interviews over the past two years. This week John talks with Matt Matias, of MemeLord mondays.
An interview with The Christian Atheist's, Dr. John Wise, entitled "What Do I Say To An Atheist About My Faith," hosted by MemeLord Monday's, Matt Matias.
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Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Jenny and I discuss C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair (Part 2) and some of the lessons and themes we can draw from this edition of the Chronicles of Narnia.
Qu'ils sont beaux les pieds!
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Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Jenny and I discuss C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair and some of the lessons and themes we can draw from this edition of the Chronicles of Narnia.
Qu'ils sont beaux les pieds!
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Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Jenny and I discuss an article by "ultra-leftie" Debbie Lerman, "The Catastrophic Covid Convergence," one of the articles we suggest in The Christian Atheist episode #65, "Update: 'On the Closing of Our Churches.'" We have learned SO MUCH since I published my commentary on March 20, 2020 ... well, at least some of us have. Half our population seems to be wearing blinders.
"We are led to believe a lie, when we see not through the eye"
The following links are all vital to understanding this issue. At a bare minimum, each and every literate person in our world should be aware of the content represented here. We could have expanded this list substantially, but we have pared it down to what we think is both representative and indispensable.
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/woke-breaking-point/ James Lindsay, “The Woke Breaking Point”
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-catastrophic-covid-convergence/ “The Catastrophic Covid Convergence”
https://gbdeclaration.org/ The Great Barrington Declaration
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-and “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
https://youtu.be/zQLMctYO36E Jordan Peterson’s podcast on Canada’s failure to “follow the science”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/312637 Israeli study: Natural immunity superior to vaccine
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254111268.html The CDC redefines “vaccine” to fit the political agenda
Sep-15-FINAL-PAYNE-CPSA-letter.pdf Argument by Canadian doctor against vaccine mandates in Canadian hospital
https://nclalegal.org/state-of-missouri-ex-rel-schmitt-et-al-v-biden-et-al/ The lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s subversion of the First Amendment
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
In one of our first appearances as the Christian Atheist on March 20th, 2020, we made comments on the emergent and uncertain Covid response. It is time to revisit that issue with the perspective gained by time and research.
It is time for the Church, for each of us, to stand up for the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
The following links are all vital to understanding this issue. At a bare minimum, each and every literate person in our world should be aware of the content represented here. We could have expanded this list substantially, but we have pared it down to what we think is both representative and indispensable.
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/woke-breaking-point/ James Lindsay, “The Woke Breaking Point”
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-catastrophic-covid-convergence/ “The Catastrophic Covid Convergence”
https://gbdeclaration.org/ The Great Barrington Declaration
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-and “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
https://youtu.be/zQLMctYO36E Jordan Peterson’s podcast on Canada’s failure to “follow the science”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/312637 Israeli study: Natural immunity superior to vaccine
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254111268.html The CDC redefines “vaccine” to fit the political agenda
Sep-15-FINAL-PAYNE-CPSA-letter.pdf Argument by Canadian doctor against vaccine mandates in Canadian hospital
https://nclalegal.org/state-of-missouri-ex-rel-schmitt-et-al-v-biden-et-al/ The lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s subversion of the First Amendment
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Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
In this episode Jenny and I discuss our series on the Evident, Evidence and Faith with a view to clarifying the complexities.
No Compromise is designed to make the themes and ideas of The Christian Atheist more accessible through conversation. 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!
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Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
In this episode Jenny and I discuss C. S. Lewis's THE HORSE AND HIS BOY, discovering that it is the most personal account of finding Christ in the Chronicles of Narnia. Shasta, the main character, mirrors Lewis's own conversion, and the Christian Atheist's return to Christ from atheism, showing how encountering God happens in our everyday experience.
No Compromise is 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!
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Friday Aug 26, 2022
Friday Aug 26, 2022
In this episode Jenny and I conclude our discussion on C. S. Lewis's THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE.
No Compromise is 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!
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Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Jenny and I are taking the week off to celebrate our wedding anniversary. The success of our No Compromise conversations, in which I always say, "Qu'ils sont beaux, lex pieds" to introduce my Jenny, is here explained. Jenny was God's gift of grace to me, my path back to His arms. On Valentine's Day 2022, we posted my original poem to Jenny on our Simple Gifts podcast. We repost that episode here on the Christian Atheist.
Qu'ils sont beaux les pieds, "How Beautiful are the Feet" (Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15) is my love song to my Jenny this Valentine's Day! My love has only grown exponentially since we married. My one earthly goal is to spend every available second with her!
Yeats' poem "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" was my foundational poetic influence in writing this piece, but there were many, many more, some of which I trace out in this episode.
Happy Valentine's Day to the love of my life!
Qu’ils Sont Beaux Les Pieds
I have spread my dreams under your feet
For they speak to me of Golden Mean
Of swirls and curly fractal stream
Scent, sight, tactile complete
Complement-whorl in all ways meet
You, transcendent cloth in immanent flesh-
I, being poor, naught can commend
But dreams of you I receive and send -
The clothes of heaven in poverty dress
Unless thus enrobed your feet shall press
Upon my dreams
Tread softly, my Love, for what dreams may come
Through which our mortal coils may travel
Roads taken & not taken ravel & unravel
Though past is past, it is not the sum
For Time is not an unbroken arrow
Parallel treks we’ve trod in struggle
Converge in One a history double
Time-tethered we, within our marrow,
Revise what was through what will follow
From Pieds Beaux you spiraling rise
Tripped too often by syncopated schism
Now dance with me in measured rhythm
To theme-captured melody from your eyes
Woven with dreams in cloths of skies
© John Wise, February, 2022
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Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
No Compromise is 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 continue our discussion on C. S. Lewis's THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE.
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Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Uncle Andrew in The Magician's Nephew exemplifies in one brief vignette ALL that I have been attempting to say in our series, "The Evident, Evidence and Faith."
Here is presented in a pellucid literary picture the nature of faith, of the evident, and evidence.
William Blake wrote: “We are led to believe a lie/When we see not thro’ the eye.”
This couplet exemplifies how contemporary thinking (especially among the elite) is anti-empiricist, anti-science and anti-rational, and why Western society seems to be committing suicide.
Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
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Friday Aug 12, 2022
Friday Aug 12, 2022
Uncle Andrew in The Magician's Nephew exemplifies in one brief vignette ALL that I have been attempting to say in our series, "The Evident, Evidence and Faith."
Here is presented in a pellucid literary picture the nature of faith, of the evident, and evidence.
William Blake wrote: “We are led to believe a lie/When we see not thro’ the eye.”
This couplet exemplifies how contemporary thinking (especially among the elite) is anti-empiricist, anti-science and anti-rational, and why Western society seems to be committing suicide.
Join us as we try to make sense of where we all stand before the Looking glass.
If you’d like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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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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