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Avatar is a delightfully inconsequential movie. As many have pointed out plot and character development have been sacrificed for the sake of special effects and impressive action. And I like that. I want to be stunned. The 3d scenery, the blue women – a tad too perfect and sensuous – the floating mountains, the techno [...]
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Or how one does not need to reach too far deep within to feel that existentialist disgust (dégoût) for existence without meaning. Enjoy this poem rife with ire and irony.
Stripped of everything
all adjectives
all descriptives
all additives
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An apologetic for apologetics
Does God exist? Good one! Or… maybe not. It will be hard to come up with a question to which there are more divergent answers. For one person it is self-evident that God doesn’t exist (Duh!). For another it is exactly the other way around (How can you live without Him?). But [...]
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Brian Auten over at Apologetics 315 has created a fantastic resource for anything apologetics. Go there for audio links to debates, short bios on famous apologists, the apologetics blog directory, book reviews, short courses on logic… you name it. There’s something new there almost every day. I’d like to specially highlight his Recommended Apologetics Book [...]
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“As I write these words, and as you read them, people of faith are in their different ways planning your and my destruction, and the destruction of all the hard-won human attainments that I have touched upon. Religion poisons everything.” So writes Christopher Hitchens in God Is Not Great (Hatchette, 2007). It seems that many [...]
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A fleeting fugue tells me what could have been
fountain of glittering gold, for beauty’s sake
one last gesture of grandeur: lift your hand
before your life succumbs one movement make
And then relent, released into death’s silence
we will remember, muster all our power
to grasp and touch the master’s perfect hand
grand sweep of all we hope in this life’s [...]
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As of today (since last week actually) this blog is no longer the effort of one individual. I have opened it up for some of my fellow students in the Christian Thought Program at Bethel Seminary, St. Paul. ‘Me’ therefore has become ‘we’. So there we go:
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Second thoughts about the influence of religion on public discourse or – even worse – its involvement in politics? Enough of politicians who drag God into the picture (usually to defend their own position)? Not so fast. In the secularized societies of the West mixing religion with state affairs may be anathema. But there were [...]
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