Kant on the use of scripture to proscribe human liberty
Very brief application of the form of Kant’s rebuke of the Inquisitor to those using interpretations of sacred texts to deprive people of their liberty. not edited.
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Archives – December, 2009
Christian, climate change and same-sex sex
Musing about balancing expected resources and needs. Mainly making a case for the promotion of same-sex marriages by Protestant Christians. Unedited.
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Thinking on the Anschauung
Short muse about the meaning of the Anschauung and how to present this with some examples. Thinking also of the differentiation of the envisagement/intuition/Anschauung and the imagination. unedited
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Christianity as a provisional hope for the world.
Musing on the enormous task before the Christian church and why it will not be accomplished by the Americans, but perhaps by the Chinese. Dedicated to Matt the Great of Blairsville
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Kant and the Paralogisms
A first stab (in a long time) in expressing my current (and still underdeveloped) understanding of Kant’s thinking regarding the Paralogisms. Unedited.
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Video Brothel and a Christian context
Musing about sexual workers as a social medicine to be protected and utilized by a Christian society.
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The conspiracy theory of freedom
Considering Kant’s theory of freedom (in opposition of the natural necessity of science) as one would a conspiracy theory.
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Reflection on the spat and the recovery
Reflections on the spat of the previous post, looking for some moral lesson to guide our marriage in the future. Not edited
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Intervention of the Holy Spirit? a family spat made good
Ruminations on a domestic spat, how it arose and how it ended and what was the result. A suggestion that man need not have fallen into sin, but did and were conditioned by that and as a result of that harbor resentments which build into explosions and which can result it a greater good, but which in a perfect world of candor would never have arisen in the first place.
Continue December 11, 2009
Jesus, son of Mary and his Abba/Daddy
Wondering and speculating on how a entirely natural child could be raised by a mother to think that he were the Salvation of the world. Conceptually it is similar to the story of the upbringing of Gotoma the Buddha. Seeks also to unify laws of nature with miracles. Not edited.
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