“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Not Just A List of Do’s And Dont’s
March 18th, 2010
After watching Hitchen’s monologue, I wanted to explain perhaps one layer of depth to the Decalogue even though the layers go deeper. I realized very quickly that this could have been a very long blog post, so I will give my assessments one commandment at a time over the next while.
[Preface:] I [...]
Tillich to Einstein: Pick On Someone Your Own Size
March 17th, 2010
“Secondly I want to ask Einstein and every critic of theology to deal with theology in the same fairness which is demanded from everyone who deals, for instance, with physics — namely, to attack the most advanced and not some obsolete forms of a discipline.”
This quote is from “The Idea of A Personal God” by [...]
Hitchens: Dump The Ten Commandments
March 16th, 2010
Christopher Hitchens speaks with biting satire in this video as he denounces most aspects of the ten commandments and then affords us with “new” ones, updated for the 21st century. Here is a rundown of his new list and below it I provide my responses to some of them.
Do not condemn people on the [...]
Why I Loved The Book of Eli
March 15th, 2010
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish [...]
