Tag Archives: Faith

Two Views of Reality, Completely At Odds

Two articles that showed in my RSS reader today: Godlessness is the last big taboo in the US, where non-believers face discrimination and isolation. [From Atheism in America - FT.com] and The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter at the State University of New York at Buffalo has three weeks to come into compliance with the school’s …

February 6, 2012 – 1:47 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, New Atheism, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

It Must Be Christmas: I Agree With Jerry Coyne!

I’ve been quite critical of University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne on more than one occasion, so I was quite surprised to find myself nodding in agreement with him today on a religion-related topic. He opened up this blog post saying, There’s a pretty dreadful piece by Tim Padgett in the latest online Time Magazine (I’m …

December 23, 2011 – 6:16 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Postmodernism/ Relativism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

“Singing Hymns to Gravity”

I thought you might enjoy this, from Tom Graffagnino: Stephen Hawking has been talking, Hawking Faith in what’s unseen; Rub the lamp and there you have it! We can see just what he means! … Watch!….. Spontaneous Creation! All from Nothing like we thought… “POOF!”…… String Theory’s “multiverses” All strung out in Godless Noughts. Mental …

November 29, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner:” Two Sides To the Story, and a Decision To Make

Difficult? Or Impossible? Years ago I was in an undergraduate social psychology lecture at the University of Central Florida. The professor, speaking of attitudes toward homosexuality, told us, “Christians say they can ‘hate the sin but love the sinner,’ but I think that’s pretty hard.” By his non-verbals it was clear that he meant is …

July 12, 2011 – 9:14 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Life and Choices, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (11)

Life Lessons in College: New Life

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Life Lessons in College

A while ago I began a tale of my experiences in college, where I learned that life is great and life is awful, and does any of it make sense? I was living out a dream, but I almost died, too, and I was diagnosed with a serious chronic disease, just a week after my …

June 18, 2011 – 7:32 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

On Not Being Young

Being young was never what it was cracked up to be. Our media culture wants us to think it’s the greatest thing, but they’re wrong. If someone somehow offered me the chance to go back, I would say, “no, thank you.” Sure, I could stand to have my joints back in the condition they once …

February 25, 2011 – 8:48 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

The Atheist Ethicist and “Faith”

I’ve been having an interesting interaction with The Atheist Ethicist on the nature of faith, here and here. Please feel free to join in.

April 8, 2009 – 6:11 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , | Comments Off

Two Views of Faith

Some time ago a commenter here wrote, The core problem is that religion teaches that holding absolute beliefs without evidence (aka faith) is a virtue. Is that what faith is? No, actually not. The other day in a Bible study at church, I noticed a great way to illustrate the difference between this and true …

March 31, 2009 – 3:16 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, The Faith | Tagged | Comments (13)

Do We Really Believe in God?

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Living Up To Our Beliefs

Do people really believe in God? That’s the question Bradley Monton asked in a blog entry today. He’s a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, an atheist, and yet somewhat sympathetic toward Intelligent Design. He begins today’s article, I’ve recently read a couple different pieces arguing that belief in God is less …

September 17, 2008 – 10:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (6)