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Given this purpose, it is disturbing to note that this year's Noble Lecturer will be John Shelby Spong. In his many writings, Spong has disavowed nearly every traditional Christian belief. In his self-congratulatory A Call for a New Reformation, Spong claims that theism is dead, that Jesus was not God incarnate, that original sin is false, that the virgin birth was impossible, that miracles never happened, that the story of Christ on the cross is "a barbarian idea," that Jesus was not resurrected, that prayer does not work, that there is no heaven or hell and that there...
...fulfilled this Core requirement by taking Moral Reasoning 54, "If There Is No God, All Is Permitted: Theism and Moral Reasoning." The course piqued my incipient enthusiasm for philosophy but, because I am not a philosophy concentrator, I will never be able to study Rene Descartes or John Locke in the context of their philosophical progenitors and successors...
...theism constitutes as much a religious creed as Islam, Christianity or Judaism. All religion is fundamentally an attempt to explain the reasons behind and origins of the universe. Just as monotheists and polytheists believe on faith that one or more divine beings created the universe, atheists, just as much on faith, believe that no higher plan is behind the cosmos. Atheism is no more an objective truth than any other existential theory...
...congregations to discuss what it should do. Based on responses from 260 churches, Jones' Committee on Purposes and Principles proposed to last week's assembly in Vancouver that the reference to God be replaced with a statement that the churches "reflect various forms of Theism, Christianity, Humanism, Feminism and other religious traditions." A study paper explained that "the origins of feminist theology may be found in the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, India, China, Greece-wherever female deities were honored." While elevating feminism to the status of a new brand of faith, the committee dropped any reference to another religion...
True science never overlooks any possibilities. The attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union to rule out theism as a valid hypothesis for the creation of the universe is about as unscientific...