[NYer]

Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University. He is one of four primary contributors to the forthcoming Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Anglicanism (Zondervan, 2012).

[NYer]

Ping!

[gorush]

As much as I try to escape agnosticism, my limitations always win out.

[schu]

I was listening to Dr McGee this AM, and he hit me with Romans 10:17 (NIV)

17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Want more faith? Wonder why you doubt or question? You do not know enough. Spend more time understanding Christ. Make it a habit, make time for the word every day!

schu

[FormerLib]

Bookmarked.

[Sudetenland]

I am always amused when atheists claim that they have no need of religion (usually Christianity) to behave morally. These same people who so claim are products of a Judeo-Christian culture, the morals they lay claim to are products of that culture. Everything they have experienced informs them what is right and what is wrong, what is moral and what is immoral. Their assumed independent morality is based in that same culture.

Hitchens, Dawkins and the rest can no more separate that world and its influences upon them from their intellectual posturings than they can change the fact that their native language is English. We are creatures of our culture. Whatever they claim to believe the source of their morality, that society shaped those values.

For over a thousand years, Britain has been a Christian nation (not so much these days) all of their values, all of their understanding of right and wrong, their very beings are steeped in that culture.

In a situation like that, claiming that you don't need religion "to live an ethical life," is like asserting that you don't need to tell yourself to breathe in order to inhale.

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[gleeaikin]

It might interest you to know that the humanist/atheist population is planning a “reason rally” in Washington, DC on the Mall on March 24, 2012. This will be to support reason and science in preference to belief and faith. This is about 2 weeks before the Cherry Blossom Festival and depending on the weather can be a nice time to visit DC. See link for more information.

http://reasonrally.org/