Tag Archives: Myths of Secularism
David Hume, Miracles and the Speculations of The Spectator
In a recent article in the Spectator, Matthew Parris writes:
I wish I were a religious conservative: the field’s wide open. It must be dispiriting for believers to encounter so little intelligent support for belief. It’s certainly infuriating for us non-believers, because there’s hardly anyone left who seems capable of giving us a good argument.
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Posted in Existence of God, Historical Jesus, Quick Thoughts
Tagged Faith and Reason, Hume, Miracles, Myths of Secularism
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Secularism and the Nature of Evil
Each generation has a different nightmare and each nightmare reveals something about that generation. Giant ants and radioactive dinosaurs made audiences scream in the 1950s; a few decades later,The Beast from 20000 Fathoms and Them would seem quaintly comical. Radioactive monstrosities would be replaced by invincible serial killers in the 1980s; psychopaths in Halloween masks would later be parodied by the Scream franchise.
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Posted in Christian Theology, Quick Thoughts
Tagged Can We Be Good Without God, Good and Evil, Halloween, Hell, Horror, MR James, Myths of Secularism, Popologetics, Secularism, Sin, The Beast from 20000 Fathoms!
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