Gratitude was the subject of our Thanksgiving post, naturally enough, but more needs to be said. Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot It’s time to start looking at some characteristics of human nature from an atheist perspective. It happens all the time that debates over atheism and theism quickly boil down to evaluation of […]
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Where is God?
Why wouldn’t God make Himself more apparent to us? If He exists, why doesn’t He make it obvious? For many who reject Christianity, and teeter on the edge of rejecting the very idea of a real God, this may be the way to summarize their puzzlement. Let’s consider a few features of this criticism. What follows are […]
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Thanksgiving would seem to be a perplexing concept for one who has rejected any possibility of there being something beyond the here-and-now of daily experience that presents itself to our sense impressions. Of course the question is: to whom would I be giving thanks? The idea of gratitude – motivating thanks-giving – is closely tied […]
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