a work in progress
You can't get very far in a Philosophy degree without butting heads with Nietzsche: the unfortunate playboy for all things anti-Christian, anti-conformist, or anti-anything. You don't believe in anything? Must be Nietzsche's fault. Pissed off at your parents? You can probably quote Nietzsche. Mad at God? Well, you get the idea. The problem with studying […]
Later known as Peter Waldo, Pierre de Vaudes (or Valdes) began a movement that some, including myself, consider the practice run for the Protestant Reformation - three and a half centuries earlier. Tradition has it that de Vaudes made his monetary fortune through usury; historically, we know that he was wealthy merchant of some type. […]
So why did I pick the number 26 to start my list of the most influential thinkers in my life? Why not 25? Well, because I considered this 26th person as sort of a bonus, mainly because this man has had so much influence in the development as a critical thinker despite the fact that […]
Several years ago I watched a special on, I believe, A & E, documenting who they believed to be the 100 most influential people of the millennium. Lists like those are always controversial - are Spielberg (#91) and Jane Austen (#63) really worthy to be one of the top 100? - and their methods are […]
1. An infallible, inerrant, inspired Holy Book contains no fallacies or errors.
2. The aforementioned Book states that 'penguins do not exist'.
3. Penguins exist.
4. (3) conflicts with (2).
5. If (3) is true, (1) is false.
6. If (1) is true, (3) is a trick of the devil.
P.S. This post has nothing to do with my […]
Judging by the last two blog titles, you’re probably thinking that I have some sort of theme going on. Although it was not intentional, it was probably my last post (religion and post-postmodernism) that automatically had me responding to this article in this way. If you do not want to bother reading it, here are […]