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This semester, I am taking a course that is new to my college’s catalog: Philosophy of Religion. It is an introductory Philosophy course, and in it we cover various topics pertaining to problems within theistic religion. The first topic of discussion is the Problem of Evil. The syllogism is as follows:

If God exists, then God […]

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A Texas megachurch has backed out of providing a service for a deceased Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because he was gay.
It’s okay though. Their justification for doing this has me convinced that it was the right thing to do.
We did decline to host the service — not based on hatred, […]

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In what year was Jesus born? Many would say somewhere around the year 0. It’s way more confusing than most people realize.
Well, there was no year 0, but the historical equivalent is AD 1. AD 1 immediately precedes 1 BC on the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Got it? Okay.
Now, once Jesus was born, the world […]

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Yesterday, one of my friends forwarded me to this article on Newsweek. It discusses some new discoveries in the physiology and cell mechanics of the human body. Apparently, once someone has died–that is, their heart has stopped beating–their cells aren’t really dead. Clinically, their body is declared dead, even though their cells are not. The […]

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This is going to be good. And I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible. For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, there was a discovery made about 27 years ago of a tomb containing ten bone boxes–some of which contain names of Biblical significance. There’s a documentary […]

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