Tag Archives: Beliefs

Ready, Set, Re-Engineer Our Children!

The old school house isn’t what it used to be—especially if your child’s principal is a member of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). If so, then he or she has helped sponsor a curriculum that you need to know about. It’s called “Ready, Set, Respect!” Its ostensible mission, as presented on its first few pages, is …

January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (64)

“Private Beliefs”—It’s All In How You Pose the Question

SteveK tipped us to an article that includes: Improbably, gay marriage and religion loom as issues in the Nov. 8 race for a part-time, $12,000-a-year clerk’s job in this town of gently sloping hills on Cayuga Lake. Voters are posed with the question: Where is the line between an elected official’s public duty and private …

November 2, 2011 – 2:49 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments (17)

Do Atheists’ Actions Have Any Connection To Their Beliefs?

Watch at video.foxnews.com Richard Dawkins (about 2:25): What I do think is that there is some logical connection between believing in God and doing some, sometimes, evil things, but there’s no logical connection between them [Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot] being atheists and doing evil things. It’s just incidentally true that, say, Mao Zedong and …

October 6, 2011 – 10:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (69)

If We Don’t Live Up To Our Beliefs…

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Living Up To Our Beliefs

I’m still thinking about Bradley Monton’s questions, linked from here, about Christians not living up to our beliefs. His observations certainly call for a prophetic response: Christians, wake up! It makes a difference how we live! There is more to it than that, though. Our inconstancy of practice raises two questions: what does it signify …

September 20, 2008 – 10:54 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (4)

“Look Who’s Irrational Now”

From the Wall Street Journal: “What Americans Really Believe,” a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from …

September 19, 2008 – 3:02 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Is It Wrong to Believe Your Beliefs Are True?

Chris, at Nihil Fit, and John DePoe, at Fides Quaerens Intellectum, are both blogging about something I was thinking about a while ago: Is it wrong to believe your beliefs are true? I phrased it as the question, “Come to the wrong conclusion, or wrong to come to a conclusion?” Some people consider it an …

January 8, 2008 – 3:04 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments (35)