Each religion and the professional atheist must assure the world population that it is impossible for an adherent to those religion or to atheism to justify what is seen by the individual as an immoral act.
Continue October 12, 2009
How Abraham might be conceived as unique in human history. And how the Christians and the Muslims might differ in their use of him as an example. Brief and unedited.
Continue October 11, 2009
Musing further on the Palmquist/Rudisill work on Abraham in the 10/09 Journal of Religion. Does the defense of Abraham get people off the hook who are certain that God will honor their faith and allow their dying child to live without medical assistance?
Continue October 10, 2009
Inspired by the “Abraham Defense” by Palmquist and Rudisill (10/09 Journal of Religion), I muse about this famous man and seek to understand him more precisely than Kant does.
Continue October 8, 2009
Thinking of how Abraham relates to the Christian. Very brief. The Christian, like Abraham, becomes perfect in faith.
Continue October 5, 2009
Thinking of Abraham and Jesus and how Jesus does not anticipate God, but waits until he is called, and from that point on he anticipates God in the sense of setting his own agenda and speaking authoritatively to the humans.
Continue October 5, 2009
Musing about Abraham from the standpoint of the sin of his anticipation of God while before the king. He refused to wait on God and instead figured out a way for God to get him off the hook, sort of helping God by saying:Oh don’t bother God, I can get out myself and I don’t need your help.
Continue October 5, 2009
The workings of Abraham’s mind conceived as one of the most loving parents in the world. Prompted by the Abraham essay in the current (10/09) edition of The Journal of Religion (University of Chicago)
Continue October 4, 2009
Ruminating on a man convicted of letting his daughter die without medical help in order to express his faith in God and His Word.
Continue August 17, 2009
An attempt to express a contrast in the mindset of the Christian and the Muslim with respect to things moral.
Continue December 2, 2007
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