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Fundamentalism Runs Both Ways
By: Brian Holdsworth
A recent strain of Fundamentalist-Atheist arguments against theism, popularized by personalities such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and, to a lesser extent, Bill Maher (with his crowning achievement: a movie called “Religulous”), tend to run along the lines of, “There is no evidence for God” (I say, ‘to a lesser extent’ with respect to Bill Maher because he is limited to a very unscholarly medium; pseudo Hollywood agenda-mentaries, which are not accountable to any form of bibliographical citation or standard forms of documented research). The argument they use makes an assumption that possibly helps to explain it a bit further. By ‘evidence’; they mean that the omnipotent omniscient God of monotheism, who created matter, space, and time, cannot be observed or understood via the Scientific Method, therefore, He must not exist. This is not the only argument that they use against theism, however; of what I’ve heard and read, it seems to be the most common which is why I want to consider it.
Redefining Your Neighbor
By Brian Holdsworth
It seems to me that one of the biggest problems, if not the biggest, with our world stems from our apathy towards our neighbors. Jesus spoke a lot about our neighbors and gave some incredible examples of what it means to be a neighbor. You don’t have to be a Christian to appreciate the timeless wisdom of the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). The contemporary usage of the word neighbor usually seems to amount to people around us, but in that teaching, Jesus specifically singles out one of the characters as being a true neighbor and then He told us to “go and do likewise”.
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