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Oppression of Social Identities {Arguments in Feminism}
Because of my gendered childhood and frustration as a second class citizen in the church, I’ve struggled in the church. I still get irritated when the church oppresses women, and sometimes I just cry....
View ArticleHow Social Identities Foster Bigotry
I’m tired of living in a socially constructed world. It wears and tears on the soul. From the moment of birth society constructs us to its imagine. We are the mirror of our surroundings. Sure some of...
View ArticleAnti-Sex Culture, the Church, and Plato {Plato in the Church Part 1}
I’m going to do a short series post on how durn Plato influenced the church. I warn you, it’s gonna be way oversimplified, but crazy fun. Here we go. First off, let’s talk about the anti-sex culture....
View ArticleGod First, Life Second? {Plato in the Church Part 2}
In evangelical circles we are taught to put God first, then everything else second. This is very Platonic. God created us to commune with him, we learn from the scripture. We were created in perfect...
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High Arts, Postmodernism, and Classism
Conservative evangelicalism often speaks very ill of postmodernism. In their criticism of postmodernism, conservative do not simply expose the self-defeating arguments in postmodernism or criticize...
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Typical Christian Explanation for Sufferings…. and the Flaw of It
Perhaps the most basic explanation for sin and suffering – the one that we hear so, so often – is so so flawed. The story goes that suffering came to the world because man sinned. We chose death...
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Redemption of the Past
Nietzsche theorized that people turn to religion to take revenge on time. People are born, other people control their lives, pain and sadness come. Life sucks. Everyone is sad inside. Christianity...
View ArticleWhen Tragedy Becomes Opportunity
I. A recent post by Jamie the Very Worse missionary helped got me thinking more about the problems that we see in misisons. It’s no secret that I believe the North American Church has really screwed...
View Article“Suffering is a Necessary Means to Draw Us to God”
Last week I talked about the most common theodicy that says, “We suffer because we chose sin.” While there may be some truth to this, the fact is suffering and death existed on the scene before man....
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Love Will Win the Day
I am studying in a Canadian university right now. I love the deep conversations with PhD bound students in graduate seminars where we hash out concepts I’d never hear anywhere else. But intellectual...
View ArticleIn Tony Jones’ Defense: A Community of Faith
People often ask me if I believe in God for a rational reason or if I believe on faith. Usually I answer a rational reason. After all, I am a student of the humanities, and I have had more formal...
View ArticleWe Can’t Step Outside Tradition: Thoughts for the Protestants
I grew up protestant, and since we were on the more fundamental side, we did not approve of Catholics. My grandmother in particular goes as far as claiming that she “hates them.” In high school I...
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But Some Ravens are Not Black (Problems with the Scientific Method)
When I was an undergrad, we had to read the French philosopher Deleuze. I was extremely offended by his suggestion that categories are socially constructed. I took it as a direct attack on Aristotle...
View ArticleThe Opposite of Objectivism is Not Relativism
In my last post, I wrote about how the scientific method has limits. Mostly it’s just common sense. Like everything in life, we have a finite view of the world. In other words, we can’t see it all. I...
View ArticleOn Atheism, Religion, and Responsibility
A few days ago, and actually throughout the last year, we’ve had discussions on my blog about whether a belief in a higher power 1) hinders genuine relationships and 2) takes a way from personal...
View ArticleWe Create Our Destinies
I think I should do a series on ways that modernity has infilterated the church or just life. But instead I’ll just write about it when I spontaneously cross paths with it. Today I want to talk about...
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Apostate: Rene Descartes (Chapter 4)
I am reviewing Kevin Swanson’s book Apostate chapter-by-chapter. So far here are the reviews I have written: Preface Chapter 1 and 2 Thomas Aquinas (Chapter 3) Since I have not written any reviews in a...
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Apostate: Jean-Jaques Rousseau (Chapter 6) #ApostateTheBook
In today’s review, I will discuss chapter 6 of Kevin Swanson’s book Apostate. In this chapter, Kevin Swanson intensely unravels his special dislike for Rousseau, more so than any of the other...
View ArticleApostate: Jeremy Bentham (Chapter 7) AKA Kevin Swanson on Homosexuality. Again.
Content note: Homophobia, hatred, denial, and emotionally abusive language. I return to review Kevin Swanson’s book Apostate. This time, we turn to chapter 7, entitled “Forming the Humanist Ethic.”...
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Hobby Lobby: How We Approach This As Modern People
I have written a lot about the difference between a modern and postmodern framework of knowledge, or what we might call “worldview” to use common speech. I have hinted and briefly mentioned that the...
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