Hi everyone!

This is my first time in this community so I hope my post is acceptable. My question must have been asked before but hopefully not in quite the same way. Anyway, I'm really excited to see what kind of answers I get since this is a subject that has really been bugging me lately, since I moved from a not-very-religious city to a town full ( Read more... )

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), as Johannes Climacus, confronts Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1821) in Concluding Unscientific Postscript.

Common to both: Faith requires a kind of certainty that historical inquiry cannot provide.

Ø  Lessing’s rationalism: History is “the ugly broad ditch which I cannot get across, however often and however ( Read more... )

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Carrie Prejean Says 'God Was Testing My Faith' With Gay Marriage Question

By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

So she's saying that God was testing her faith via Perez Hilton? How does this mechanism of faith-testing via heathens work?

allmhuran challenged me to properly defend a claim I've been making about the purpose of miracles. Specifically, he asked me to refute the following claim:

"Miracles are persuasive devices. Stories about them exist for the purpose of converting people to faith or strengthening faith. In this sense, miracles revealed to be trickery are not useful because ( Read more... )

Of late, some in this community might have wondered what I am going on about, on my new little crusade to salvage "religion" and "faith" from belief. I've been making some bold claims (in baldfaced defiance to the authority of the almighty lexicon) that center around two key points ( Read more... )