The Assault on Truth
By: Alton C. Thompson Here is a famous passage from the gospel of John, Chapter 18: 28 Thenthe Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas [the Roman-appointed Jewishhigh priest] to the palace [...]
Category Archives: Faith & Theology
Faith, Theology and other Cultural Viewpoints
What Am I to Believe?
Of claimed facts, there are: Those which have rather firm empirical support, and can therefore be accepted as “true.” Those that lack such support, and therefore should be rejected. We [...]
PDF: Toward a Body Like Society (Part I)
Excerpt from the PDF: I am in broad agreement with Barrie Wilson’s claim that the — Jesus Movement came to replaced — under the leadership especially of Paul of Tarsus — [...]
Understanding Christianity’s Trajectory
By: Alton C. Thompson It is sometimes said that the religion of Jesus became, with Christianity, (merely) a religion about Jesus—so that Christianity utterly distorts the “ministry” of Jesus. In [...]
Bring Back the Golden Calf
By: Charles Rayner Kelly Could it be that Pope Benedict’s early experience as a Hitler Youth is revealing itself? His need to suppress dissonance and penalize dissenters certainly fits the Nazi mold. [...]
The Development of a Religion (Please Pardon the Cynicism!)
By: Alton C. Thompson Although from an historical perspective societal systems obviously change, and change significantly, three qualifications to this statement are in order. First, societal system change has been [...]
Cartoon: Symbols for Agnostics
Some handy symbols of faith for our Agnostic friends!
PDF: What Christianity Should be (but isn’t), and Why it isn’t
Christianity is fraught with problems, which raises the question: Why, then, does it continue in existence? My brief answer: It is functional in the context of our societal system—a claim that I will expand on later. First, though, I would like to produce a catalog of Christianity’s deficiencies, attempting not to repeat unduly what I stated in the earlier essay. Read on to download the full PDF.
A Season of Hope?
How can Americans hope any longer? Presidential and congressional elections are a sham. Our government is for sale to the highest bidder, and everyone is subject to a strip search. The Bill of Rights has been shredded, and Americans are adrift with nothing to hold on to. We’re told there isn’t enough money in the richest country in the world for all its citizens to have health care. We’re told there aren’t any jobs, when there’s so much to do. We’re told there are more important things for our taxes than educating our children. The proverbial rug has been pulled from under us, and we’re just starting to feel the pain.
PDF: The World of Beliefs
With grouping classifications, in contrast, one’s starting point is a collection of individual units of some given type—whether people, houses, shopping centers, etc. One then selects some given variable—one that can be measured on a continuous scale (e.g., ratio, interval, percent, etc.)—and then determines for each individual (or a sample of same) its numerical ―value on that variable. One can then either ―feed these numbers into a grouping program (univariate) or—more typically—do the same for a series of other variables, and then feed the resulting numbers into a grouping program (multivariate). To read more, download the full PDF here.
