4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (259+ words) However, that has not happened for most of human history. People have simply not been able to agree on the big picture of life, because for many, events and developments seemed to evolve in random and unguided ways resulting in…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (344+ words) Does the Book of Ecclesiastes have a message for us today in a world that seems to have gone totally mad? Does this ancient writing have a message for those in the midst of so much suffering and pain? More…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (1210+ words) (often abbreviated as TAG) is different. It does not begin with objects or events in the world. Instead, it begins with something even more fundamental: the very possibility of reasoning, knowledge, and intelligibility itself. Rather than asking, "What caused the…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (1319+ words) townhall. com Both the Left and Weirdo Right are into Islam. Why? Like many of my Jewish friends, we belonged to a conservative synagogue. It was a compromise for my parents, both of whom grew up in orthodox homes in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1117+ words) How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support " and are not Western nations supposedly rationally governed? There is usually a multi-step process on…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (598+ words) They say the exception proves the rule. Thomas Paine was a founding father who later in life became a complete skeptic. Most of America's founding fathers were professing Trinitarian Christians. Dozens of them had the equivalent of a seminary degree....

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (307+ words) American institutions are suffering from a collapse in public support. Among the institutions worst affected are government, the press and education. One could be forgiven for believing that government must be the most important, given its pervasiveness in our lives…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (511+ words) Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Equity and Democracy in Liberal Land Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (738+ words) There have been many arguments for God's existence made throughout the centuries. Some have been better than others. There is one argument, though, that is especially thought-provoking. It's known as the Transcendental Argument for God (TAG)." According to its proponents,…...