What Friedrich Nietzsche Can Tell Us About Heaven

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Nineteenth Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is renowned by atheists everywhere for his (usually taken out of context) axiom of the era, "God is dead."  This misuse of this quote can perhaps in some way shed light on what I mean when I say that we have anything to learn about Heaven, the place where we live with God for eternity, from the man who said that "God is dead."  When Nietzsche proclaims that "God is dead," he does not do so in the way that the quote out of context may … [Read more...]

A Case for Camus

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In times of great tragedy there are so many questions.  The greatest of these questions is "why?"  Man is a rational animal, and as such, he refuses to live in a world in which things don't make sense.  He refuses to believe that he resides in a universe which is indiscernible and not logical.  And yet, he is faced with events so horrendous that he can find no understanding in them.  He sees a tragedy, a true tragedy, and knows that there must be some reason behind it.  But does he ever … [Read more...]

Can Anyone Really Be an Empiricist?

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To be an atheist, one must deny the existence of God, any God.  When pressed as to why they don't believe in God, any god, not even the ones that allow them to throw crazy parties, ie Bacchus, many atheists reply that they don't believe in God because there is no scientific evidence to prove that there is such a thing as God.  And thus, whether he knows it or not, the atheist has killed science. Perhaps I should back up a little.  First of all I should explain that this particular … [Read more...]

Ecce Homo

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Pontius Pilate is perhaps the least talked about figure in the New Testament.  It's strange that so little is said about the man who in effect condemned Christ to death, the death which would become for Christians, the source of salvation for all mankind.  However, despite all of this, his role in Christian thought is reduced to a brief mention during Holy Week, and an even more brief mention in the creed.  In light of his importance to the Paschal mystery, I should think that the mysterious … [Read more...]

Why We Have Secular Humanism

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Among the ruins of the old, theocratic, feudal order lives a most peculiar creature, modern man.  Here stands this bizarre specimen amid a gaggle of other men of similar peculiarity, and all of them live, work, and play, all in the continual presence of what Nietzsche once referred to as the "tombs of a dead God."  And modern man, with his sincere sense of liberation looks at these tombs with an interesting view.  He looks with justified disdain upon those who enter these old, lofty, halls of … [Read more...]

Can Christianity Answer the Modern Question?

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Christianity is often criticized for not understanding the struggle of the modern man.  Many of the thinkers of the early Atheistic community bring up valid points on this subject, and even more modern Christians have failed to address, or even acknowledge, these concerns.  If these thinkers are to be taken seriously in their concerns and questions, even if we reject their conclusions and outlines for living, then we must, without so much as a second thought attest to the fact that the … [Read more...]

Why Atheism is a Dead End

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A great debate has raged since the Deists of the Enlightenment first lost their ground to the greater and more intellectual class, the Atheist.  The great Atheist has all but replaced the Deist, and has freed himself of the the dark age superstition and frivolous celebration of the Theist, particularly the worst of all Theists, the Christian.  This debate has always been focused on the existence, or lack there of, of God.  Though there are those who are apathetic to this debate, anyone … [Read more...]

How Christianity (Really) Ruined the World

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It's common on the internet to run into a myriad of attacks on Christianity.  But the ones which I find the most interesting are those that claim that Christianity is not only stupid, sexist, full of pedophiles, and the like, but that it actuallyruined the world.  Most often, these make reference to nothing more than Christianity "suppressing science and thought,"  completely ignoring -apparently- the fact that Christians created the scientific method, and that Western thought was kept … [Read more...]

Atheistic De-Secularization?

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I was confused by the thought too, but while pursuing the internet I ran into this interesting video: To be honest I had sincerely mixed feelings about it.  On one hand he's on to something with his realization of the cultural void secularization has left in the wake of its hostile takeover; and on the other he's entirely misunderstanding the reason as to why that societal degradation has occurred.   Starting with a jarring, and almost silly, halfhearted rejection of all … [Read more...]

One of These Things, is Not Like the Others…

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Recently I was involved in a conversation with an atheist.  The main claim of this young man's argument was that paganism and Christianity were at their core the same; "both cults...  and ruddy terrible things."  (for clarification he's an Englishman).   So apparently this...           is equivalent to this... ...   As should be evident, I have a serious problem with this argument.  Two problems to be more … [Read more...]