If we were decent, self-respecting animals, we would naturally prefer good environments -- in which all our needs were met -- over bad ones. As it turns out -- and as a brief survey of popular culture makes apparent -- we are currently thirsting for an environment in which all our needs are threatened by animated corpses seeking to slurp out our brains through crazy straws. I speak, of course, of the Zombie Apocalypse. The Zombie Apocalypse has become such a common part of daily discussion … [Read more...]

To "love your neighbor as yourself" is not a restating of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", and I thank Christ for the fact, because the Golden Rule -- taken as the singular guiding principle of morality -- is frightening as all hell. For a sizable portion of the population, following the Golden Rule involves leaving others alone to drink Jaegermeister and play World of Warcraft. It could consist of treating others with rainbow-puking positivity, in a syrupy effort to … [Read more...]

An excellent New York Times opinion piece is making its dutiful trudge around the Internet, proclaiming (if I may do the author, Yoram Hazony, the injustice of wedging his piece into a nutshell) that God should not be considered perfect, for such a philosophical view is directly contradicted by the God of the Old Testament. Hazony says: The God of Hebrew Scripture is not depicted as immutable, but repeatedly changes his mind about things (for example, he regrets having made man). He is not … [Read more...]

All things come from and tend towards Nothing. The Big Bang Theory supports the former claim: The dense, hot, rapidly expanding singularity that was our universe some 13.75 billion years ago contained within itself all space, time, matter and energy. "Before" it existed, nothing existed. All things come from Nothing. The law of entropy backs the latter claim, dictating that all systems regress into a state of disorder, all organization tends towards chaos, and all things crumble and … [Read more...]