Category: BK
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Infallibility and the Church
A few weeks back I started digging into Catholicism pretty deep, due to some discussions I was having. Much of what I have been doing is trying to understand just what the Roman Catholic Church teaches, in order to evaluate it. I have tried to be as “objective” as possible, but as I am presently learning about what the RCC teaches based on talking with others and reading web sites, I realize that it is very possible that I may be fed information that is not consistent with what the RCC actually teaches. In my quest for understanding, I was …
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Thing 1 and Thing 2
Recently I posted a portion of a discussion I had in the Choosing Hats chat room with a (somewhat) regular visitor. This visitor was discussing the Cosmological Argument (well, at least one formulation of it) with me, and I was attempting to demonstrate for them how what they were presenting failed miserably as an argument for the existence of God. This post has generated a few responses – some in the context of comments, some in the context of posts on other sites. For the sake of context, here is a snippet from the conversation where I took the atheist …
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Vantillians are Retarded
Consider the following transcript of a very brief discussion I had today with a brilliant atheist. Please note the atheist’s handle has been changed for privacy purposes.
…brilliant_atheist: i accepted the cosmological argument
BKing: why?
brilliant_atheist: but I deny that it points to something alive
BKing: it is a terrible argument
brilliant_atheist: because the universe needs a cause
BKing: why?
brilliant_atheist: because it exists
BKing: so everything that exists requires a cause?
brilliant_atheist: yes
BKing: um
BKing: dude
BKing: ever heard of an infinite regress?
brilliant_atheist: yeah?
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Coffee Bean Discipleship
Today as I was sitting at my local Starbucks, typing away on an essay, I began to take notice of two guys who had sat down behind me. It was somewhere in between the end of one album I was listening to and the beginning of another that I heard someone mention “the Word”. I paused my iPod and began to listen intently, feeling a bit guilty that I was both listening to someone else’s conversation, and doing so with headphones in my ears as if I was listening to music instead! What I heard, however, was encouraging.
It was …