I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona several days ago. I don’t have much to add to the more eloquent words of others, but I do want to call your attention to one related response in particular. Martin at The Atheist Experience wrote a spot-on reaction to Congressman Mike [...]
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God’s important plans
Posted by NFQ on January 14, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/01/gods-important-plans/
God is not (good)
When I watched this clip from God on Trial, I thought of a guy I was talking with a couple weeks ago. He told me that he believed in “God, sort of.” When I asked him to clarify, he explained that he believed there was a supremely powerful being guiding the universe and everything that [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 30, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/11/god-is-not-good/
Friday Link Roundup #18
I skipped my usual Friday link post last week — I guess because I wrote about almost everything I was intending to, which is a good thing. This week, it looks like I’m bringing you a special all-webcomics edition of the roundup. I empathized pretty hard with this Buttersafe strip. SMBC brought us two religion-themed [...]
Posted by NFQ on October 8, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/10/friday-link-roundup-18/
The problem of evil is an old one
Zach Weiner at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal reminds us that theists have been struggling with the problem of evil for millennia. It’s not an issue that only crops up for the omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god of monotheist religions (though it is particularly egregious there). For one thing, the Greeks saw it as a problem for [...]
Posted by NFQ on September 12, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/09/the-problem-of-evil-is-an-old-one/
Friday Link Roundup #14
Chris Hallquist has written an open letter to theists on the problem of evil. He’s just looking for your thoughts, not a debate. He asks some really worthwhile questions. If you believe in God, why not go answer him? Either way, please help spread the letter around. Ted Cox has a great article on AlterNet [...]
Posted by NFQ on September 3, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/09/friday-link-roundup-14/
Action and inaction
If you’re not familiar with the action/inaction problem, here is a brief summary. Suppose that a particular action has a moral quality associated with it. If you take that action, you’re doing a good (or bad) thing. The question is, if you don’t take that action, can it be fairly said that you are doing [...]
Posted by NFQ on August 3, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/08/action-and-inaction/
Does God tempt us?
Last weekend, I got involved in an interesting comment thread on a post by Justin Taylor, reposting a section of an essay by David Powlison called “I Am Motivated When I Feel Desire.” Essentially, it’s about why people succumb to “lusts of the flesh” and engage in “ungodly” behaviors. Powlison quotes James 1:13-16 to say [...]
Posted by NFQ on July 20, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/07/does-god-tempt-us/
If God is good…
Has anyone heard of this book before — If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil by Randy Alcorn? The editorial review on Amazon says: The crossover fiction and nonfiction author of the half-million–selling Heaven throws down a heavy response to a spate of recent bestselling atheism books. Because the main [...]
Posted by NFQ on May 19, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/05/if-god-is-good/
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