From yesterday’s post, Fr. Huw made the following comment: But this only attacks half the problem… if there is a place where our (and I speak in the first person here, on purpose) hypocrisy haunts us most, it’s in our trumpeting of “one right set of doctrines” when paralleled with our self-righteousness. Essentially we say […]
Archives for November 2009
The wrong sort of Mere Christianity
Yesterday I received a comment on an older blog post that said that all the Orthodox that this person had met were hypocrites. Of course, I was at first tempted to answer with either snappy comebacks or with philosophical comebacks or by re-defining the term. I finally wrote that I had no way to disprove […]
Ahh, is this really honest journalism?
Yesterday, the Breitbart news site ran a story on a proposed resolution that a Congressman was thinking of submitting for approval by the House. They reproduced the resolution and then proceeded to lambaste the resolution. Now, at this point it does not matter what the resolution was, nor does it matter to which party the […]
On sexually transmitted diseases
From the Centers for Disease Control on a report released yesterday: Syphilis, once on the verge of elimination, began re-emerging as a threat in 2001. In 2008, 13,500 cases of primary and secondary syphilis cases were reported, an almost 18 percent increase from 2007. The majority of these syphilis cases (63 percent) continues to be […]
Is Evangelicalism dying?
I have permission to reproduce below part of an editorial from an online Christian magazine published by post-evangelical writers. The editorial is quite strong and, typical of post-evangelical writers, flirts with phrases that will startle you. Unfortunately, it uses one too many phrases that also almost require philosophy training in order to understand. Nevertheless, I […]
Truly offensive Al Gore TV
You may not know or care that Al Gore is involved with Current TV. What is Current TV? Current TV is an independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. The cable television network went on the air at midnight EDT (4:00 UTC) on the morning of August […]
Carrie Prejean and Religious Right culture wars
Yes, Father Orthoduck is deliberately running a racy picture of Carrie Prejean because he needs to make a point. And it is a point that will keep biting conservative Christians, whether politically conservative, moderate, or liberal, until the Religious Right gets its act together. Yes, Father Orthoduck claims that it is possible to be a […]
Watterson on possible gods
Yesterday, I wrote on the subject of theodicy. For those who do not remember, it is the defense of God, particularly with respect to the suffering in the world. That is, it appears that, given the suffering in the world, God must either not be a good god or must not really be all-powerful. In […]
Watterson on the existence of God
Of course, Watterson is tackling the problem of suffering in today’s comic strip. In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the question of whether evil exists and, if so, why. The question particularly arises in religions that propose the existence of a deity who is omnibenevolent while simultaneously also being […]
On visiting wounded soldiers
While Father Orthoduck does not agree with every line and approach in this set of comic strips, he heartily agrees with the sentiment. If you are in a church with a reliable senior high school group, what about visiting a nearby VA hospital? Some of your juniors and seniors could probably volunteer to be candy […]
