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
Kant’s account of evil makes three key claims with major consequences for moral agency and responsibility. First, the distinction between good and evil lies in the will (R 6:59). Unlike prior theories that locate evil in natural inclinations or external circumstances, Kant situates evil in the will’s choice of maxims. This reveals that earlier theories […] The post Kant’s Empowering Conception of Humanity first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
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
The conservative, Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal editorialized that Trump’s immigration plan is in deep trouble, and rightly so. His goal (Stephen Miller’s) is to deport 11 mil…| Diane Ravitch's blog
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
How Trump's political moves have supercharged the pace of evil.| netsettlement.blogspot.com
War is coming, whether or not any of us want to be a part of it.| The Hidden Dominion
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