Worldview and Perspective on Religious Arguments

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Frederick William Robertson
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Disagreement is refreshing when two men lovingly desire to compare their views to find out truth. Controversy is wretched when it is only an attempt to prove another wrong. Religious controversy does ...
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Taking Convictions Seriously
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Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
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We might say that convictions are firmly held moral or religious beliefs that guide our beliefs, actions, or choices…[M]ost Christians attach their convictions to Christ personally. In other words, we...
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G. K. Chesterton
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Romans 14:1, Colossians 4:6, 2 Timothy 4:2, 1 John 4:1, 1 Corinthians 1:10, Acts 15:39, Proverbs 27:17
Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue h...
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Negative Attitudes About Christians
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- Western Culture
I’ve asked strangers and casual acquaintances, “Why do Christians stir up such negative feelings?” Some bring up past atrocities, such as the widespread belief that the church executed eight or nine m...
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A Mischief to Religion
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Joseph Glanvill
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Anti-Intellectualism has been a problem in the church for some time now. Consider the words of the 17th century English clergyman Joseph Glanvill, who had this to say about the role of reason in faith...
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Are All Religions Basically the Same?
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Timothy Keller
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- Religion
- Comparative Religion
Most people who assert the equality of religions have in mind the major world faiths, not splinter sects. This was the form of the objection I got from the student the night I was on the panel. He con...
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The Religious Guy and the Atheist
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David Foster Wallace
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- Bias
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John 20:24-29, James 1:2-8, John 12:37-38, Hebrews 11:6
There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that...
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Bill Watterson
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are not struck by lightning.
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Stephen L. Carter
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- Religion and Public Life
- Religious Pluralism
It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions (namely that all are equal) is right.
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The Dueling Fish
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Jeff Myers
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One of my friends developed a PowerPoint presentation with a set of “dueling fish” images to illustrate this point. In the first image, a believer puts a Jesus fish on his car. Then his atheist neighb...
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Defining Religion: Creed, Cult, Conduct
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Robert Farrar Capon
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- Religion
In this fictionalized pastoral counseling session, the Episcopalian Priest Robert Farrar Capon shares some eternal truths related to the nature of religion—and in conclusion, how Christianity differs....
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Bob Goff
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Philippians 2:3-4, Galatians 2:20, James 1:19-20, Romans 12:3, Proverbs 15:1, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Matthew 11:28
Arguments won’t change people. Simply giving away kindness won’t either. Only Jesus has the power to change people, and it will be harder for them to see Jesus if their view of Him is blocked by our b...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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- Religion
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Harold Kushner
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- Religion
- Reason
True religion goes beyond making sense. It does not offend reason, it transcends reason. People do not start to see the world differently because someone has written a book giving them good reasons fo...
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Does Religion Do More Harm than Good?
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- Religion
I wondered whether negative feelings against religion were a local phenomenon until I came across a poll of eighteen thousand people in twenty-three countries. In preparation for a 2010 debate between...
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G. K. Chesterton
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Hebrews 11:1-6, Isaiah 1:18, 1 Peter 3:15, John 1:1, James 1:5, Colossians 2:8, Romans 12:2
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The Many Houses Analogy and the Problem with the Attic
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Joshua Chatraw and Jack Carson
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John 10:6, John 17:21, 1 Corinthians 3:11, 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, Revelation 7:10
Before he was a household name, C. S. Lewis was a hardened atheist. From his teens to his early thirties, he vocalized many of the objections to Christianity that animate doubt in our age. After his s...
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How Religious Stories (and Religion) Are Understood Today
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Gregory Koukl
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Most people nowadays would not say the religious stories believers believe are actually false. (It would be impolite to put it that way and might even be considered intolerant). At the same time, thou...
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The Good News Isn’t Sounding Good to Some
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Isaiah 53:3, Jeremiah 20:7-10, 1 Kings 22:8-28, John 15:18-19 , Acts 5:40-42, Psalm 37:1-2
In Vanishing Grace , Philip Yancey examines the growing negative perceptions of evangelicals. Although the book was written in 2014, these dynamics have only intensified in the era of MAGA and Ch...
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Religion: A Private Affair
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Peter Baelz
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So it is that in most Western industrialized countries church and society have lost their identity, religion has become more and more a private affair, and morality has become secular. This process af...
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Christian Faith Proved by it’s Fruit
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The current context of cultural and religious pluralism magnifies this development. After the disintegration of Christendom-a historical topical apparatus that gave cultural pride of place to Christia...
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Adrian Rogers
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- Fruit of the Spirit
- Religious Fanaticism
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
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Where Were the Humanists?
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Timothy Keller
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Isaiah 41:10, Revelation 21:4, John 14:1-3, Romans 8:38-39, Psalm 34:18, 2 Corinthians 5:1
Not long after the December 2012 Newtown shootings, and all the speeches by civic leaders, memorial services, and funerals were over, Samuel G. Freedman wrote a column in The New York Times titled “In...
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A Post-Christian America?
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Phillip Yancey
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The United States is undergoing a marked change in its attitude toward religion, and Christians here face new challenges. When a blogger named Marc Yoder wrote about “10 Surprising Reasons Our Kids Le...
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Desmond Tutu
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John 13:35, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Romans 14:13, Isaiah 58:6-7, Galatians 5:13, Micah 6:8, Matthew 23:27
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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But He’d Be Wrong!
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John M. Perkins
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- Race
- Jesus' Example
Reporters Alex Alston and James Dickerson tell a sad story about a church that sought to integrate its ranks: The Mississippi Delta was in a tizzy over rumors that blacks might show up at white church...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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- Politics
- Religion and Politics
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Blaise Pascal
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- Religion
- Evil
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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One of the gravest dangers to the Christian faith
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Alan Paton
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Exodus 5:1-21, 1 Samuel 8:4-22, Isaiah 1:10-17 , Matthew 23:23-28 , Galatians 3:26-29, Psalm 146:3-9
One of the gravest dangers to the Christian faith is its wholesale appropriation of the larger culture. When this happens, the citizens of those places cannot recognize the difference between their cu...
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William Barclay
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- Religion
- The Christian Faith
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.