Children, Guns, and Abortion

Last updated on: April 11, 2023 at 12:44 pm By Ted Peters

The public debate over children, guns, and abortion seems confusing. Republicans allow living children to die so they can profit from sales of military assault weapons. Yet, Republicans want to protect yet-to-be-born children from abortion service providers. Democrats want to protect living children from assault weapon murderers and from Republicans. Yet, Democrats to not protect yet-to-be-born children from abortion service providers. Can someone explain these apparent contradictions? Read more

Afterlife? Really? What are the options?

Last updated on: April 16, 2025 at 5:45 pm By Ted Peters

The axial religious breakthrough--giving rise to Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Greek Philosophy, and Biblical Religion--ran head on into transcendence. This transcendental confrontation precipitated the advent of the human soul. Now, we ask: is this soul immortal? What happens after death? Is there an afterlife? Read more

Your Robot Pastor is Here

Last updated on: April 27, 2024 at 9:12 am By Ted Peters

Are Bless U-2, Buddha-Bot, and Rabbi-Bot inaugurating a new era in religious leadership? Will AI enhance sanctification? Can we ask for soul-care from a robot with no soul? Read more

Angry Theologians Talk Back

Last updated on: April 3, 2023 at 3:07 pm By Ted Peters

In the controversy over angry theologians, we note how moments of unaddressed injustice prompt justifiable anger. Yet, Jeuss warns us to watch out for that log in our own eye. Read more

Easter Resurrection of the Body. Afterlife 10

Last updated on: September 7, 2023 at 4:15 pm By Ted Peters

When God raised Jesus from the dead on the first Easter, God promised to raise you and me at the future advent of the New Creation. Like a seemingly dead seed buried in the ground, our dead body, soul, and spirit will sprout and flower into a soma pneumatikon, a spiritual body in God's eternity. That's the Christian promise. Read more

AI Warning: Utopia or Extinction?

Last updated on: June 16, 2023 at 10:04 am By Ted Peters

AI prophets have issued a warning: pause big AI advancement now and instantiate regulatory laws now before civilization loses control. It's a crisis moment. How will we rise to the occasion? Read more

School Shootings Meet AR-15 Lapel Pins

Last updated on: May 7, 2023 at 5:42 pm By Ted Peters

US Congress Reps have donned an AR-15 lapel pin allegedly in support of 2nd Ammendment rights while school children fall daily into pools of their own blood after being shot by AR-15s. Nothing short of a ban on all civilian ownership of military style assault weaponry could curb the body count. But those AR-15 lapel pins and the lugubrious campaign donations from the NRA continue to divert our attention from the real issue into endless discussions of background checks, bump stocks, mental health, and criminals. America is slowly committing suicide by gun profit. Read more

Absorption into the Mystical Infinite. Afterlife 9

Last updated on: September 14, 2023 at 9:43 am By Ted Peters

Absorption into the mystical infinite has been the life's goal of Hindus and new agers. It's the ultimate identification of the self with the whole of reality that comes after the last rebirth. Or, one can experience cosmic unity now through yoga meditation. This one option in our list of afterlife options. Are you a mystic? Read more

Communication with the Dead. Afterlife 8

Last updated on: November 2, 2023 at 1:38 pm By Ted Peters

Attempts at communicating with the dead puzzle me. Oh, how I wished to receive an unambiguous and comforting message from my deceased mother! I got a message. And it was comforting. Yet, I still walk around with a shade of skeptical doubt. Maybe, like faith in God, some level of doubt is unavoidable. Read more

Is ChatGPT intelligent?

Last updated on: May 2, 2023 at 2:45 pm By Ted Peters

Is ChatGPT intelligent? The answer may not matter to professors or journal editors. Students could plagaraise their term papers so easily that even the smartest professor would be fooled. Journal editors are beside themselves with worry over the factual accuracy of their published articles and, like the professors, over plagairism. Virtually every academic who has experimented with ChatGPT is astonished at its high level of proficiency and uncanny capacity for assembling relevant data into readable form. Will the tsunami of AI-generated text and soon-to-be-developed video inundate traditional researchers and writers? We will drown, never to be heard from again? Read more

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