The Problem of Evil: Intellect and Emotion

July 25, 2010

The Problem of Evil and the Existence of God Atheists will argue that the evidence for the existence of God we’ve been discussing over the last several months is insufficient. However, if an atheist makes the statement that God does not exist, and I disagree, they need arguments to prove their point as well.  It’s [...]

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Defending Christianity: Good … Jesus: Better

July 18, 2010

Defending Christianity… Before we get into the discussion about “the most difficult question for Christians and the biggest, most legitimate reason non-Christians can give as to why they choose not to believe in the Christian God” that I mentioned last week, I want to take a few minutes to discuss something even more important. While [...]

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Moral Experience: As Real As The Five Senses

July 11, 2010

What Do I Mean By Moral Experience? Many people when they talk about moral experience are referring to all of the things that have happened to shape our morals over our lifetime…the experiences we have had. That’s not what I’m talking about here.  When I say moral experience, I’m talking about the experience of knowing [...]

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Plato’s Morality: It Just Exists

July 4, 2010

Plato’s Morality: Self-Existent Moral Values Plato, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, did as much as anyone to lay the foundations of Western philosophy.  He wrote about many things, including the question of morality. Plato’s morality can be described as ‘Atheistic Moral Platonism’.  It is basically the idea that moral attributes we would [...]

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The Euthyphro Dilemma: Splitting The Two Horned Monster

June 27, 2010

What is Euthyphro’s Dilemma? Euthyphro is a character in one of Plato’s works and ‘Euthyphro’s Dilemma’ is named after that character.  We’ll get into the specifics of Euthyphro in a minute, but first we need to discuss what a dilemma in philosophy actually is. A dilemma occurs when you have a limited number of choices [...]

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