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Ingersoll on Salvation

My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. Here is the great man talking about salvation. (Please visit theingersolltimes.com

Alabama Megachurch Can Now Have Its Own Police Force

Oh dear. A change in law has allowed for a plan for an Alabama megachurch to have its own morality police. CNN report: An Alabama megachurch plans to start its own police force thanks to a new law permitting the church to do just that. The law, signed by Gov.

Natural Law, Essentialism and Nominalism

I have said this many times before in different ways and as part of different posts, but I thought I would explicitly make this point on its own. Natural Law Theory and the essentialism upon which it depends, as part of a Thomistic/Catholic philosophy, depends on the negation of

Natural Law Theory, Morality and Rational Beings

Natural Law Theory (NLT) is an ethical theory derived from the thinking of people such as Thomas Aquinas that attempts to establish that humans, for example, have an ideal form or essence that dictates how they should act. The form of a particular species of bird is that it has

On the Methodology of Surveys

A bit of a different one today. I was having an argument with Guy Walker on Facebook the other day concerning something I had previously posted here: His response was: Based on a sample of 892 out of 160,000 (0.006%). The other 159,108 would have told them

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