Good article from Christianity Today. After decades of communist rule, then struggles for freedom and a move back towards oppressive rule, the people of Ukraine have a chance for freedom - including freedom of Religion.
Our prayers should be that Russia's influence wains and that the free governments of the world, particularly our American President and Congress, have the moral courage to support the people of Ukraine.
Showing posts with label atheism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atheism. Show all posts
Wednesday
Saturday
Unreasonable Doubt and the Fatherless
Here's an interesting excerpt from an article in "Christianity Today" on February 10, 2011. The article, Unreasonable Doubt is by Jim Spiegel.
External factors may also hamper the natural awareness of God and contribute to a descent into atheism. In his book Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, New York University psychologist Paul Vitz, a onetime atheist, examines the lives of the major atheists of the modern period, including Hobbes, Hume, Voltaire, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Russell, and Freud. He found they had something in common: a broken relationship with their father. Whether by death, departure, abuse, or some other factor, the father relationships of all these well-known atheists were defective. Vitz also examined the lives of prominent theists during the same period (Pascal, Reid, Burke, Berkeley, Paley, Wilberforce, Kierkegaard, Schleiermacher, Newman, Chesterton, and Bonhoeffer, among others). In every case, he found a good relationship with the father or at least a strong father figure.
External factors may also hamper the natural awareness of God and contribute to a descent into atheism. In his book Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, New York University psychologist Paul Vitz, a onetime atheist, examines the lives of the major atheists of the modern period, including Hobbes, Hume, Voltaire, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Russell, and Freud. He found they had something in common: a broken relationship with their father. Whether by death, departure, abuse, or some other factor, the father relationships of all these well-known atheists were defective. Vitz also examined the lives of prominent theists during the same period (Pascal, Reid, Burke, Berkeley, Paley, Wilberforce, Kierkegaard, Schleiermacher, Newman, Chesterton, and Bonhoeffer, among others). In every case, he found a good relationship with the father or at least a strong father figure.
Sunday
Strychnine in Grandma's Tea
Oxford Professor John Lennox:
Science can tell us that if we put strychnine in grandmother's tea it will kill her. But, science cannot tell us whether or not it is morally wrong to put strychnine in grandmother's tea.
Saturday
Where Did The Laws Come From?
One glaring omission from the writings of modern day atheists like Dawkins and Hawking is an answer to the question "where do the laws come from?" These men and many others claim that God did not create but that the natural laws did.
Of course it makes absolutely no sense to suggest that the law of gravity, for instance, could create anything. But suppose for a moment it could. There's still the monumental problem for the atheist. For they cannot explain who created the natural laws?
For, before there was anything, the laws could not have existed. They had to be created. And, of course, we Christ-followers know exactly Who created them.
Of course it makes absolutely no sense to suggest that the law of gravity, for instance, could create anything. But suppose for a moment it could. There's still the monumental problem for the atheist. For they cannot explain who created the natural laws?
For, before there was anything, the laws could not have existed. They had to be created. And, of course, we Christ-followers know exactly Who created them.
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