Reading Time: 2 minutes What a sad story showing the dangers of a misguided belief system. From the Mirror:
A 12-year-old girl was found hanged in her bedroom with a note saying she wanted to be with her dad in heaven.
Heaven
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How can we mere mortals state what God SHOULD do?
Reading Time: 12 minutes This is essentially the point, I believe, which has come out of, or driven, much of the conversation over the last few days between labreuer, Andy Schueler and myself on another thread. We popped down many rabbit holes, including free will, slavery, epistemology, history, the problem of evil and oughts. The conversation was quick and frenetic, so I decided to move it here, and start not afresh but with a streamlined trajectory. Here is what I think was labreuer’s core gist (his own comment):
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Heaven, hell, and philosophical zombies
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the recent google hangout with Counter Apologist and Reasonable Doubts’ Justin Schieber, we were talking about the great argument against hell. I will set this argument out again, as I have done previously, before getting on to my main point. This is an argument brought up by Ray Bradley in a debate with William Lane Craig.
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Free Will, the Problem of Evil and Heaven
Reading Time: < 1 minute Not sure if I have posted this one before, but needing to do quick and edifying (hopefully) posts, I am posting another of my videos for your delectation… Comments on a postcard (to Cornwall)…
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Pope Says Atheists Go to Heaven?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has been making plenty of news since taking over in March. Not only is it the case that he may have exorcised demons in public very recently (very old school), but now he seems to have blessed the infidels (not-so old school).
In his Wednesday sermon, he stated the following:
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Questions to ask God #2 – Heaven
Reading Time: < 1 minute So, following on from yesterday’s video on hell, here is one on heaven. See what you think. Do you have any further arguments for or against heaven? [youtube]http://youtu.be/lrOwakB03QY[/youtube]