by Gary | Mar 6, 2019 |
…Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able to? Then he is not omnipotent. …Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. …Is he both willing and able? Then whence cometh evil? Then why call him god? ~ Epicurus (341-271 B.C.E.) ~ I couldn’t have said it better myself. There have been many others who proposed their own formulation, and there may have been some who said it earlier, but none have said it better than old Epicurus. Epicurus and other like-minded philosophers have bedeviled Christian, Islamic and Jewish thinkers for millennia. First a short sidebar on Epicurus: Epicurus was a Greek philosopher in the image...
by Gary | Feb 22, 2014 |
Never let it be said that I’m afraid of tackling the tough stuff. Any one who writes about god in Texas better be a preacher or a converted sinner. I am neither. I’m not taking a secular nor a religious approach to the topic. I’m going to try to deal with the subject as my old history teacher and wide receiver coach, Wally L., would have. Only the facts…names and dates in particular. This is not the place for, nor am I inclined to evangelize a point of view. I’ll let you decide for yourself if any of this makes sense. For source material I’ve relied on the research of cadres of academics who never tire of writing about...
by Gary | Sep 18, 2013 |
Warning: This blog will deal with what most consider to be religious issues. Some who read it may be offended. If you are possibly one of those, hit the delete button now. On the other hand, if you don’t read it, how will you know that you are offended. Oh, what the hell, most of you have read stuff a lot worse than this could ever be. Give it a read, then decide. I grew up a Southern Baptist. Well, that’s a stretch. Actually my earliest memories of things religious date from my fifth or sixth grade year. I dunno what happened, church wise before then, but I have clear memories of the Hillcrest Baptist Church in 1953. My mother had a murky...
