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What would meeting John the Baptist face-to-face do to Joel Osteen and others like him?
Weekly apologetics cartoons for the faithful, the faithless, and the full-of-its.
Archives for the month of: June, 2011
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The silence of fossils allows scientists room of [sic] immense imagination.
Finally, more facts have started to creep their ugly, unwelcomed selves into science museums around the world.
(I took this picture at a large science museum in central Taiwan.)
Next thing you know people will be demanding that we put in pictures of polystrate fossils!
The human mind derives all of its knowledge from experience; no experience can give us an insight into what preceded our existence, into what is to follow it, nor into what supports it at present. In what manner have we received life? What is the spring upon which it depends? How is our brain capable of ideas and memory? In what manner do our limbs obey every motion of the will? Of all this we are entirely ignorant… The most profound philosophers are no more able to solve these questions than the most ignorant of men. All these questions may be reduced to the vulgar proverb: Was the hen before the egg, or the egg before the hen? The proverb is rather low, but it confounds the utmost penetration of human wisdom, which is utterly at a loss with regard to first principles of things without supernatural assistance.
Tobias Smollet, footnote from Voltaire’s The Lisbon Earthquake as contained in The Portable Voltaire
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In both formal and informal apologetic engagements, I think we (note the use of the pronoun “we”, I include myself here) try to be so nice and understanding that if forces insincere responses out of us and makes us ignore the metaphorical ice pick through the tumor-laden forehead.
Let us learn from this poor physician’s poor prescription. Don’t say or refrain from saying things for the sake of being “nice”. Otherwise, you’re moving yourself out of the argument and into a therapy session, a move that not only just masks and prolong the problem(s), it also makes yourself become immediately irrelevant and out-of-place.
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I’m not telling you, I’m asking you.
Who else battles what is not seen (every thought and intent of the heart; principalities and powers)?
Who else is working to convince the tortured and abused woman (the world) that her current lot is not her true one?
Who else dares to dream that impossible dream?
