Showing posts with label Manata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manata. Show all posts
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Arminian oracle
Roger Olson is God's gift to Calvinism. If he didn't exist, we'd have to invent him:
http://analytictheologye4c5.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/is-jesus-part-of-the-gospel/
http://analytictheologye4c5.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/is-jesus-part-of-the-gospel/
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
What's for dinner?
Atheists aren’t all that bad. I hang out regularly with several. They’re civilly good people. Contrary to some myths, they don’t eat children.
I usually agree with Paul Manata, but in this case I must demur. His view of godless cuisine is far too trusting.
To begin with, while evolutionary ingroup/outgroup dynamics might well mean a hungry atheist would be averse to consuming his children, he might well eat your children–especially in the proverbial lifeboat situation.
As for civil goodness, that’s just the gingerbread house which the witchy infidel uses to lure unsuspecting boys and girls into the kitchen. Once the door shuts behind them, it’s curtains for the poor little tykes.
Paul wouldn’t be in a position to know about godless cuisine since infidels only serve kiddy potpie and whippersnapper ragoût to fellow infidels.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Defining freedom and responsibility
Paul Manata has updated his outstanding introduction to the subject:
http://analytictheologye4c5.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/free-will-and-moral-responsibility-essay-updated/
http://analytictheologye4c5.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/free-will-and-moral-responsibility-essay-updated/
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The Outsider Test for Faith Muse: Where Are My Royalties!?
John Loftus has turned his humble Outsider Test for Faith into a major merchandise industry that sells some of the hottest product around today (news from WSJ is that it's going public early 2012). Some of the most fashionable and beautiful people in the world are wearing OTF gear. The T-blog paparazzi team, headed by Patrick Chan, have captured these photos:
But here's my question for our lawyer readers, since Loftus has credited me with being the creative inspiration behind developing the OTF, can I get any royalties off of the massive sales Loftus Inc. is pulling in from his OTF merchandise line? If so, I'll give you a cut if you draft a lawsuit and send it to Loftus' law team.
But here's my question for our lawyer readers, since Loftus has credited me with being the creative inspiration behind developing the OTF, can I get any royalties off of the massive sales Loftus Inc. is pulling in from his OTF merchandise line? If so, I'll give you a cut if you draft a lawsuit and send it to Loftus' law team.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Shall the first be last?
Paul Manata and JD Walters have been sparring over universalism. Among other things, JD said:
Hmmm….sounds a bit like the worker who grumbled that those who worked just a few hours in the evening were being paid as much as those who had toiled for the whole day?
Your original post makes it seem, against all reasoned protest by universalists to the contrary, that universalism posits that those who have to go through hell before getting to heaven have somehow gamed the system, that they get ‘all this and heaven too’.
Why wouldn’t the believer be entitled to make a similar complaint, that his friend got to ‘have fun’ and live his youthful years however he wanted and still got into heaven because of his midlife repentance? How is this scenario any different from the one involving the earthly saint and the post-hell redeemed sinner? Under any scenario salvation is ‘unfair’ and a gift of sheer grace.
A few quick points:
i) Manata wasn’t “complaining” that it’s “unfair” to “game the system.” Rather, he was giving a factual description of what universalism entails. If universalism is true, then, as a matter of fact, “they do get all this and heaven too.”
ii) Actually, it’s the universalist who bristles at the suggestion that sinners can game the system. So, if anything, it’s the universalist who’s complaining about the unfairness of that depiction.
iii) Far from supporting universalism, the parable to which JD alludes is diametrically opposed to universalism. The punch line in Mt 20:16 involves the eschatological reversal of fortunes. But that’s not the case in universalism. If universalism is true, then it’s false to say the first will be last and the last will be first. In universalism, everyone crosses the finish line. Everyone wins the grand prize. There are no losers. Rather, you have complete equality of outcome.
iv) Apropos (iii), wouldn't that be unjust in terms of Mt 20:16?
Monday, March 21, 2011
Operatic Christianity
Ever since Paul Manata started his own blog, stealing all my best customers, I’ve been scheming how to lure them back.
Since Paul’s blog is dedicated to Aporetic Christianity, my rival blog will be dedicated to Operatic Christianity. If Paul can post academic disquisitions on aporetics, then I can post academic disquisitions on operatics
If Paul can pioneer aporesuppositionalism, then I can pioneer operasuppositionalism
If Paul can blog on analytic theology, philosophical theology, and modal metaphysics, then I can blog on operatic theology and mythology , viz. Die Zauberflöte, Don Carlo, Der Ring des Nibelungen, La damnation de Faust, Parsifal, Dialogues des carmélites, Moses und Aron, Orfeo ed Euridice, Samson and Delilah, Suor Angelica.
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