Archive for July 3rd, 2008
Relativism and God
Eller admits that relativism, understood as the claim that “all judgments and values come from some particular point of view,” is a “danger,” because “this awareness is inimical to believing in your own man-made environment: if we know that we just made it up ourselves, it has no special or exclusive claim to our credulity [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Anthropology, Philosophy, Religion.
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The Promises of Christianity
For the intellect it offers unmitigated and infinite perfection, never to be actually comprehended, providing untold riches for the eternal life. Atheism, as best, considers man to be the measure of all things, and what a poor measure it is! Atheism forces one to cling to the temporal and transient which never seem adequate. “Don’t [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Religion.
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Eller on Agnosticism
Eller’s analysis of agnosticism claims that it denies that one can have any knowledge of God. But in that case one is automatically and essentially an atheist. For why bother considering the existence of that which is totally unknown or unknowable? What are we showing the existence of? “If you said that you have no [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Philosophy, Religion.
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