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“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8). As far as human beings are concerned, this may be the most significant sentence in all of the […]| GGWO Church Baltimore
Russia has a recurring mystery: very rich and prominent men keep falling to their deaths, with no explanation. Just recently, the publisher of Pravda suffered the same unfortunate fate. Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, had been the publisher of Pravda since 1984. It is believed that he jumped from the window of his fifth-floor apartment. Police officials […]| Diane Ravitch's blog
What happens when government data are politicized? What happens when a President fires the professionals who report the data and replace them with his loyalists? Jack Hassard, a retired professor of science education at Georgia State University, knows what happens. Hassard followed Trump’s behavior in his first term and wrote a book called The Trump […]| Diane Ravitch's blog
“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8). As far as human beings are concerned, this may be the most significant sentence in all of the […]| GGWO Church Baltimore
Two scholars–Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley–explain why Trump is censoring exhibits at the Smithsonian. He has also imposed censorship of signage and exhibits at other federal site…| Diane Ravitch's blog
It is not bringing glory to the fascists. In the pre-dawn hours of September 30, federal agencies coordinated a large-scale immigration enforcement action targeting a five-story apartment building …| Pharyngula
A Sijo they believe he knows all things so, he foresaw grief—and made it; they believe he rules all things so, causes every child's death; they believe he fills all things so, dwells where all cruelty reigns d’Verse: Perspective and Pronouns At d’Verse, we are encouraged to write poems from a perspective different than our… Continue reading Either A, or: B→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Our Sin-Cursed and Broken World| Biblical Authority Ministries
Are people finally awakening to their sense of right and wrong?| Insight
God’s Purpose for Evil is the Revealing of His Great Glory Where the Free Will defense frames God as dependent on the free will choices of man, the Greater-Good and Greater-Glory theodicies present him as sovereignly decreeing evil for the express purpose of accomplishing a specific good. As Welty explains, the Greater-Good theodicy reveals, “That […] The post Answering the Problem of Evil – Part 3, All For the Glory of God appeared first on Voice of Reason.| Voice of Reason
God’s Goodness and Glory are Limited Under Free Will To address the charges that God cannot be both omnipotent and wholly good if he permits evil to exist, some theologians present the defense that God created beings that have complete free agency to choose what actions they will take. For these beings to truly worship […] The post Answering the Problem of Evil – Part 2, Isn’t It All About Free Will? appeared first on Voice of Reason.| Voice of Reason
Introduction The issue over the existence of evil is a perpetual concern for the Christian church. Christians are routinely challenged by secularists, philosophers, and anti-theists with the “problem of evil,” which asks if God is truly omnibenevolent and omnipotent, how can evil exist in his world? J. L. Mackie alleges, “There seems to be some […] The post Answering the Problem of Evil – Part 1, The Accusation appeared first on Voice of Reason.| Voice of Reason
President Trump wanted a war on Latin Americans and found an obliging partner in El Salvador, currently headed by President Nayib Bukele. Bukele has managed to bring down El Salvador’s homici…| Techdirt
As the title says. The paper has been published Open Access, so there will be no paywall to deal with. Links to the paper are included below.| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
For some reason I was expecting this to be a popular-level book on the topic. Instead, like Unseen Realm, it was a substantive work of scholarship that delved deeply into the academic literature. T…| Phil's Scribblings
Explore Taha Abdurahmane's concept of Absolute Evil and its implications on humanity through the lens of current events in Gaza.| Traversing Tradition
OVEREXPOSURE * Surely there are those People who we can all agree are Evil. * If in Doubt just test by Fire or other method Medieval. Some thing ’bout their Serpent Smile and shiny eyes does not seem Real. * Open up their Skull then like a Can and see the Thing Concealed. If a […]| Reverend Hellfire's Sunday Sermon
Foreign policy under Trump 2.0 is already different from anything we’ve been used to. Secretary of State Marco Rubio...| Fair Observer
Reading the Frieren manga has been a treat. The anime follows the manga with a slavish exactitude, so I read exactly what I have seen in vivid colors. Still, the story is so pleasant that one doesn…| Medieval Otaku
I’ve missed a couple weeks of blogging since our daughter was born, but I’m hoping to get back to weekly posts soon. For now, bi-weekly might be more doable (we’ll see how things …| Like An Anchor
Warning: Explicit Content. Taking a peek inside our cursed land. You are going to need a whitepill after this article.| The Hidden Dominion
Well. Unfortunately, the heat wave has come for us. It got up to 103 degrees yesterday, is currently 100 degrees right now, and doesn’t look like we’re hitting the 80’s again till…| My Geek Blasphemy
Hannah Arendt’s thesis about the banality of evil is widely misunderstood. I’m not sure I fully grasp it, but here’s my take. It isn’t that what Eichmann did wasn’t evil; it was. But it was a new form of evil that didn’t quite fit our traditional moral and legal concepts. And it isn’t that Eichmann... Continue reading →| The Mirror and the Lamp
Why are they all marching here? And why now?| The Hidden Dominion
