Why Hitch Ain’t In Heaven

Recently, arch-atheist Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, went home to meet his Maker. I’m not saying that Hitch went to heaven. Unless there was some sort of deathbed conversion [and no one’s saying that’s the case], Hitch definitely did not go to heaven. This is a point on…

A Sirius Christmas: Santy Claus Is Outsourcing, The Meaning of Merry CHRISTmas & The Holidays Are Happy, but Biased

Santy Claus Is Outsourcing! He’s gotta be. How else do we explain those pernicious little twisty ties that bind every toy to the box at the molecular level? Can we attribute this cruel packaging development to good-hearted, jolly ol’ Saint Nick? Doesn’t this seem more on par with some trick of Ol’ Scratch? Can a…

Reasonable Enough: Why Reason Does Not Compel Acceptance

It is COMPLETELY WRONG to say that I think atheists or any other non-Christians would agree with me if they would just open up their eyes and see reason.  I do not believe reason could infect someone [profoundly affect someone] so as to compel them to see my position as truth. I don’t think that…

God in the Petri Dish

The challenge was issued: “Sirius, please show us some physical evidence for your imaginary deity. Until you do that, you are a liar.” This brought to mind a similar conversation I’ve been having that was instigated by a post by Brooks Robinson on the obviousness of God. Let’s face it. There are always guys who…

Thoughts on Predestination

John Calvin (1509-1564) was a French theologian, church reformer, humanist, and pastor, whom Protestant denominations in the Reformed tradition regard as a major formulator of their beliefs. He was also a contemporary of Martin Luther. This article addresses his most famous doctrine, Predestination. Predestination finds its roots in John Calvin’s interpretations of Romans 8:29 and Epesians…

Fighting the Future: Lost versus Heroes

While I’m really just a Lost whore, as evidenced by the fact that I got suckered into watching the first two episodes of that dreadful Eli Stone just for the faintest further snippet of Lost, I have to watch something when Lost isn’t on. Kyle XY was pretty interesting, but ABC moved the show to ABC…

Paint It Black

:Answering a Pulp Protest on Why God is Just & Good Even When He Directly Causes Suffering.   There are those who throw what I like to call “pulp problems” or “pulp protests” out there. These are big, chunky lists of data or objections. Taken altogether, they seem rather overwhelming. Most apologists don’t bother answering…

The Cost of Free Will

: Why God Allows Evil & Suffering It should be noted that this is the first part of my rebuttal of Doubting Thomas’ reply to my comments on his blog [see Will Power Redux « Sirius Knotts & Thoughts for the original exchange]. The reason I address this in two different blogs is because he really…

Will Power Redux

:Why God’s Will is Not Resisted by the Existence of Evil & Suffering This response was originally posted to http://doubtingthomas426.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/will-power/#respond    Question: “The Bible suggests that God is responsible for everything that happens, it’s God’s plan. But when horrible things happen, Satan often will get the blame. So is God then not powerful enough to…