I had an epiphany today: the evidence for Jesus's death is virtually identical to the evidence for his resurrection. As far as I'm aware, the only difference is that Josephus records his death but not his resurrection ( Read more... )

I've addressed this before, but Sanna posted something in another thread that I feel is extremely well put-together. I'm saving it here for future reference.

( Sanna's Answer )

In my Monday night discussion group, we were discussing what the difference is between Christianity and other religions, which of course focuses on Christ and what he represents. A lot of talking got done, but I think at the end nothing was very clear. Upon consideration, I think it's because a very fundamental truth got glossed over. It was ( Read more... )

( Copied this from the Raving Atheist (http://www.ravingatheist.com/) )

( So I was talking with one of my professors, who's from India, and he challenged me to write down my concept of God without quoting anything. Here's the attempt. )

I've heard this criticism several times: happiness/good stuff isn't worth having because eventually you lose it. Losing good is bad, therefore good stuff causes bad. To avoid the bad of losing good stuff, you should avoid getting the good stuff in the first place ( Read more... )

Okay, so, you all can see my previous post. The one about being tired, that I posted at about 5 today. You can see when I posted it, so you know that it's before I went to Chi Alpha. So you know that what I'm about to say isn't a product of retrospect ( Read more... )

So, I have a religious discussion group on Mondays, and it gets pretty hectic. We were having a pretty heated discussion about why I believe what I believe (Buff asserted that it's because of non-rational reasons, and I disagree), but I wasn't explaining myself very well. I had some thoughts afterward, and I wanted to record them so I don't ( Read more... )