Tag Archives: Secularism
Why It’s OK to #PraytoEndAbortion
Now and then, #PraytoEndAbortion trends on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, most of the comments are unreservedly hostile. Among some of the printable tweets are:
Why do we always have to include religion?!”,
“Yes, please #PraytoEndAbortion. That way it will continue, like everything else anyone has ever used prayer to solve”,
“Religious, holier-than-thou, judgmental bigots: objectifying the subjective for 2000-odd years.
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Posted in Quick Thoughts, Science and Christianity, Selected Articles
Tagged #Pray-to-End-Abortion, Abortion, Pro-Life, 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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