Quick Links: Introduction, Atomic Vision, Conclusion And Orthodox Practicability Introduction A Christian says Christ’s resurrection is attested to by eyewitnesses. An Atheist replies that the Christian never personally saw it, so they should not believe it. The Christian replies to that by saying the Atheist never personally saw an atom under a microscope. The Atheist…

Quick Links: Rethinking Possession, The Human Ghost, Orthodox Practicability Rethinking Possession When we use the word “possession,” what surfaces are thoughts of spooky ghosts, crazy exorcisms, and an overall feeling of antiquity. It’s hard to take the word seriously when all that is associated with it are Hollywood movies and jokes aimed at delegitimizing the…

Introduction Bishop Berkeley offered a challenge to those who believe in an external world, and this extended to those who describe the world as being made up purely of a mathematical skeleton separate from human consciousness. The group of people still challenged by this today are called Empiricists. The view he challenged is still around…

An interesting narrative I heard recently was that “some time around the fifteenth century, philosophy shifted from studying the True, the Good, and the Beautiful to justifying the skeptic.” I find this idea interesting because there’s a couple of clues that lead to insights that are helpful to understand. For starters, the phrasing “philosophy shifted”…

I’ve fallen victim to spending countless hours trying to answer stupid questions or answer the unanswerable. I believed it was my duty as a person to carefully evaluate every statement thrown my way and carefully analyze it to discern whether I should throw it away or accept it. I think this is a common habit.…

The modern-day philosophical landscape is confused. One of its largest issues is that of treating sentences as isolated bits of information.This conversation leads into multiple paths, but for now I want to focus on hidden spiritual propositions couched in ordinary statements.To further expand upon my first paragraph, I mean to say that people now think…

Having to parse through every bit of information flung at us is too great a burden. For some odd reason, I find that Christians in specific are expected to entertain and to listen to every view, granting each and every statement the same legitimacy and validity. We are not allowed to discard information, because if…