Biblical Grounds for Reasoned Faith
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts and just believe.
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts
One hears stories of doubtful Christians who when they seek counsel from their pastor or parents they are told to suppress their doubts
These are not ticky-tack fouls. In the world of publishing and public speaking, quotes are evidence. Quotes are to journalism what data are to science. If they’re not real, they’re irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how juicy and revealing they are if they never happened. Fabrication is the cardinal sin of publishing.
The groups that make up the broader freethought community — atheists, who don’t believe in a god; agnostics, who are unsure; secular humanists, who seek to replace god-centered religion with a man-made ethical system; church-state separationists, who just want religion kept out of public life; and scientific skeptics, who work to overthrow superstition and pseudoscience — have two things in common. First, they oppose the hegemony of religious, including New Age, thinking in American culture. And second, they all have roots in very male subcultures.
a phrase used to indicate that we refuse to defend a claim we’ve made—in other words, that we refuse to offer reasons that what we’ve said istrue
a phrase used to indicate that we refuse to defend a claim we’ve made—in other words, that we refuse to offer reasons that what we’ve said istrue