Trump's Lies Are Now So Obvious
Does this video not reflect something deeper and more serious than whether or not he has opened a letter and seen it or not? https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10155963382216939/?hc_ref=
Jonathan MS Pearce
Fascinating Political Compass
This is worth a perusal, and comes from a post to Jordan Peterson's facebook page. What do you think? Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher
Kaepernick's Protest
It's such an extraordinary thing, and the reaction is to force players to stand in a Hitlerian manner in order to overcome freedom of speech. Forget the Second Amendment, let'
Brexit and Democracy
This is my second in a series on the EU, Media and Democracy, inspired by a debate I was recently in. I would argue that the EU was never a worry for the
Preacher Clarification: Execute Gays "Humanely"
Well, that's okay, then... Why am I not surprised? Dead State reports: Matt Powell is a young Christian preacher with a little over 350 YouTube subscribers who is trying to create
Arguments Against (Christian) Heaven
I have written a number of posts recently on the issues concerning creating heaven from scratch and will now try to sum up my many thoughts as succinctly as possible here. The issue
Quotes of the Day on Heaven
The Heaven posts have inspired some interesting comments. Here are a couple from the first article: From fellow Patheoser, Bob Seidensticker: Here's a version of heaven that's a lot
Evangelist wants $54M jet: ‘Jesus wouldn’t be riding a donkey’
Oh dear. This is pretty commonplace in the evangelist megachurch world. But, man, it's a sad indictment of the American Dream as pertaining to belief in that socialist revolutionary, Jesus. The
If I Invented Heaven - The Construction Phase
Previously, I talked about how the notion of heaven was so problematic in even its purpose that I struggled to coherently establish the basis upon which heaven would be designed. Of course, I
Infinity and God
Here is an excerpt from James A. Lindsay's book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly committed to video by James and myself. The book looks at ideas of infinity
If I Invented Heaven - Getting it off the Ground
I've been thinking a fair bit about mortality recently, for one reason or another. This often results in considering heaven. It is patently obvious that the Christian idea of heaven is
Jim Bakker and Surviving the Apocalypse
This is batshit crazy. Love the editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al4Qr9MlDWo Of course, to find out about apocalypses for sure, with some philosophy thrown in, see my first book in