The Common Sense Atheist wants atheists to promote evidence-based thinking, but also to recognize many Christians have strong emotional and relational investments in their beliefs.
I’d like to see those emotional ties attached to self-interested motives removed from the reasons why many of us maintain our Christianity.
The quote, with my thoughts in italics:
For example, let me [...]
Or maybe it’s the whole reason there is a conversation. Why do we care what happens to the economy? What difference does it make what the government does? Who says its wrong to advocate certain policies?
More specifically:
1. Why do people care about the poor? If they care so much, why don’t they do something about [...]
Well, of course they are. I don’t believe we will ever have a minarchist judicial-based government. I don’t believe we will even end welfare. I don’t think we will get rid of the Fed, and I hope we don’t build a 700 mile fence along the border with Mexico, but that’s not part of my [...]
This is a long post, but it deals with many important areas of my thought.
Sam provokes this response with a question in an email:
“Tell me where you stand as both a Christian and a hyper-capitalist on those churches that preach wealth is proof of God’s grace, and that Christians can and should live the high [...]
Sojourner’s reports on its God’s Politics blog that the nation’s prisons are being culled of a wide variety of religious texts, including Karl Barth, who was pacifist Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s mentor.
In response to this outrage, I will be cataloging my entire collection of over 1000 titles and will publish the list and make available to all [...]