In the wake of The Dark Knight, I thought I’d share a few posts I thought worthwhile. The posts do contain some spoilers, but if you still haven’t seen the movie, um, that’s your loss.
John Wilkins from Evolving Thought writes in The Dark Knight about dualities, order and chaos and Zoroastrian metaphysics (with [...]
Entries Tagged with 'Morality'
Some Collected Thoughts on The Dark Knight
August 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Categories: Religion and Religion
Tags: Batman · Morality · The Dark Knight
God as “Meaning Assigner”
July 11th, 2008 · 18 Comments
It’s 2:45am, I’m back from a long conversation with a good friend, who’s been thinking/seeking/investigating/philosophising for some time, following a religious experience, in the context of a Christian background and culture and possessing an open and inquiring mind. Very philosophical, and digging down to the very basic axioms of meaning and value in life.
The conversation [...]
Categories: Religion and Religion
Tags: Absurdism · Existentialism · God · Meaning · Morality · Nihilism · Philosophy · Values
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God”
March 7th, 2008 · 32 Comments
While taking a look at pages on quote mining, I came across a rather silly example of how the Bible could be quote mined. In Psalm 14 (NIV) the Bible says, “There is no God”. It does, really! Yea, quote mining can be absolutely ridiculous, not so? Refrain from quote mining. Quote mining is dishonest, [...]
Categories: Religion and Religion
Tags: Atheism · Humanism · Morality · Quote Mining
What is God?: The Personal God
February 26th, 2008 · 20 Comments
First post in a series…
I am not theologically trained, I’m just an electronic or software engineer that turned amateur theology into my official thesis procrastination project. (This was a part of the process of deconstructing and defeating the harmful memes that had lodged themselves in my mind, as well as figuring out how best to [...]
Categories: Religion and Religion
Tags: God · Morality · Values
Holy Shofar
December 23rd, 2007 · 6 Comments
I attended Shofar last Sunday. I have many questions and thoughts I’d like to share, but I’ll try to stick to one particular subject right now: the subject of the sermon. The sermon was presented by a guest speaker, I’m afraid I forgot his name.
The key idea presented was pretty much the “Be Holy, for [...]
Categories: Shofar
Tags: Law · Morality · Pharisees · Values
Saying Thank You vs Being Grateful
December 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments
You have heard it said that “you should say thank you”. But I tell you that anyone who says “thank you”, but is not truly grateful, commits a sin worse than mere ungratefulness. In addition to having an ungrateful heart, he or she commits dishonesty.
Categories: Religion and Religion
Tags: Gratefulness · Honesty · Morality · Rules · Values
Language Differences (3 of 3)
October 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
This is the third post in a series of three, aimed at making evangelicals in the field more successful in their ministry to atheists. The previous post was Get the Good News Right. (Getting the Good News right is really the crux of the issue.)
The only difference between theists and atheists, is that we speak [...]
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Atheism · Brian McLaren · Christianity · Evangelism · Morality
The Worst Kind of Poetic Language:
Dear Friends, Dear Readers of This Here Blog,:
Abusing the Story of Job:
Some Collected Thoughts on The Dark Knight:
On Destroying Nokia E90's: