Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Can Atheists Live Without God? by Norman Geisler MP3 - Apologetics 315

This week Brian Auten posted a lecture about Athesism by Dr. Norman Geisler. Definitely worth listening to.


Can Atheists Live Without God? by Norman Geisler MP3 - Apologetics 315

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Who Killed Goliath? – Part 2 | Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament

Here is the second part of an essay in which Dr Claude Mariottini gives us his thought processes of stepping through the various ways people have answered the question: "Who Killed Goliath?" This really cool. I can't wait for the next part. Read the post at the following link:

Who Killed Goliath? – Part 2 | Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament
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THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY: Uninsured Man Robs Bank for $1 to Get Access to Medical Care via Prison

Okay, when a man is so desperate for health care coverage that he can only get coverage by being convicted for bank robbery, our society is sliding towards rock bottom!! This is a wake up call. Rock bottom is staring us in the face, America.

STON, N.C -- A North Carolina man suffering from an undiagnosed growth on his chest and two ruptured disks walked into an RBC bank and handed a note to a teller demanding $1. He then sat by the door and waited for police to arrive.

Richard James Verone says he needs medical attention and hoped that by getting arrested, he would have access to health care in prison.

"I'm sort of a logical person and that was my logic, what I came up with," Verone told WCNC. "If it is called manipulation, then out of necessity because I need medical care, then I guess I am manipulating the courts to get medical care."

Three years ago, Verone was laid off from Coca-Cola after 17 years on the job. He says he has had part-time work since then, but nothing with health insurance.

He is hoping for a three-year sentence, enough time to collect social security and obtain the medical help he requires, Verone says.

"If you don't have your health, you don't have anything," he says.

The 59-year-old was unarmed at the time of the incident.

He is being charged with larceny and is held on a $2,000 bond. He will appear in court June 28. (source)




THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY: Uninsured Man Robs Bank for $1 to Get Access to Medical Care via Prison
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Stark Wars | MandM

I've often posted articles in relation to Paul Copan's theodicy found in his book Is God a Moral Monster. It's been endorsed by both Dr William Lane Craig and the Flannagans. I have yet to really make up my mind about whether I agree with them or not, but Madeleine Flannagan has posted a really good summary article linking to the back and forth conversation between Thom Stark, Copan, and many others. When one has the time to start looking into the issue of where or not the conquest of Canaan involved suicide, this article linked below is where you wanna start.

Stark Wars | MandM
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Former Congressman Uses Famous 'Green Lantern' Scene to Attack Political Enemies - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

Anyone who uses a vintage Green Lantern comic book story to make a political point does deserve some props. Alan Grayson, former U.S. Representative for Florida's 8th district between 2009 and 2011, posted the following:

The movie Green Lantern opened on Friday, to mixed reviews. Maybe the reviews would have been better if the movie had included this powerful exchange, from Green Lantern #76:

I may never have the chance to talk to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or any of the other Masters of the Universe who led and misled our country for eight long years. Nor may I ever have the chance to speak to Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, or any of the other savage right-wing loons who want to finish the job that Bush et al. started. But if I could, I might say:

Me: I've been readin' about you . . . How you work for multinational corporations like Big Oil. . . . And how you say you built all those roads and schools and bridges in some country in Asia. And in some other country in the Middle East someplace you got rid of some dictator. Only there's one country you never bother with -- America! I want to know . . . how come?! Answer me that, Mr. Flag-Waiving Patriot!

Them: I . . . can't . . . .

Well, I can answer that. For a generation now, we have seen the heartless, callous erosion and destruction of all the things that make you a member of the middle class in America:

A job.

A home.

A car.

The chance to see a doctor when you are sick.

A pension or retirement account.

Social Security and Medicare.

And we've seen them replaced by endless war, falling home values, no pensions, lower wages, and now what Karl Marx called a "reserve army of the unemployed" -- to keep wages down forever.

Even after only two years in office, as one out of 435 in the House, I can point to a lot of things that I did to preserve, protect and expand the middle class in America, and to help those of us who were falling through the cracks.

I look at our so-called leaders on the other side of the aisle, and I see nothing like that. Only a perverse delight in eliminating programs that help my fellow Americans in need. They'll lead us, all right -- they'll lead us straight to ruin.

The next time you see one of them -- at a town hall meeting, in their plush offices, or just on the street -- ask them this: "What have you done to help the people? Answer me that!"

If they're honest, they'll say what Green Lantern said: "I can't."

Courage,

Alan Grayson

In brightest day,
In blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power: Green Lantern's Light.
Too many of our people in society are serving evil rather than good.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/21/congressman-alan-grayson-green-lantern/#ixzz1Py89wcjW


Former Congressman Uses Famous 'Green Lantern' Scene to Attack Political Enemies - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
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