Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

Here is a good article that sums up my perspective on Christianity, especially the bolded paragraph. There is no question n my mind that evolution has provided a sort of boobytrap in that it causes us to impute intentionality to all sorts of things that don’t necessarily have it, but that̵...

Section: Mr Nobody: With this heading I am reminded of the famous song of The Beatles from the 1960s called Nowhere Man . The opening lyrics of this famous song, written by the late John Lennon , are: He's a real nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Does...

When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

Section 4: Heidegger’s Humanism: Heidegger, like Nietzsche before him, was an unbeliever or atheist who could not give up Christian hopes.  According to Gray , and one is wont to believe him, carried along with the author’s enthusiasm and logic, that Heidegger’s terminology is merely new ...

Chapter 2 of John Gray’s book is divided into 15 subsections. Section 1: At The Masked Ball In popular psychology we read about all the different masks we wear as we go about our daily business, e.g., that of parent, teacher, bus driver, patient, student or whatever, and, indeed, we change those m...

Where do you turn in time of anxiety, fear, or uncertainty?  The world tends to turn to their accomplishments, their bank accounts, their talents, their vocations, their friends/family, their government, their (fill in the blank).  At face value, these sorts of things might seem to make sense unti...

Devarim 4:6רַק עַ�-חָכָ� וְנָבוֹן, הַגּוֹי הַגָּדוֹל הַזֶּה An interesting post at Matzav.com, which is a miracle story about miracle stories. We all hear miracle stories from time to time, and at the least, a good deal of them are made up. One such example i...

Andrew Newberg, M.D., finds in his research evidence that the God factor is hard-wired into the brain so that religion and spirituality are likely to be with the human species for a very long time. Newberg studies the brain and takes an approach against the mainstream. Rather than dismiss it as irre...

Andrew Sullivan proposes a new category of belief between Believer and Skeptic.  Or at least I first heard the term “Christian Hipster” at the Daily Dish.   What kind of people does it describe? A “Christian Hipster” as described in this article merely describes a person w...