Filed under: Kant
In St. Paul’s time there was no way of thinking of people except as straight, and thus same-sex sex would have been considered as unnatural by him. Homosexual and heterosexual were not terms until the mid 19th century. In a comparative sense it was also a long time until left-handedness was generally accepted.
Continue May 16, 2020
A suggested Christian (and especially Wesleyan) approach to discussions with an atheist with regard to morality, a need for God, evil in the world and a call for compassion and justice for those never heard of Jesus.
Continue May 27, 2017
Two very brief metaphors for Kant’s objective and subjective perceptions, and also a word on the affinity of all appearances.
Continue June 21, 2016
A speculation as to how it could be that Jesus would not want to engage a stenographer to insure that his actual spoken words would be recited correctly, by turning them into recorded words.
Continue November 13, 2015
How Wesley and I undertake to discern that something was a dream.
Continue October 26, 2015
How a trinity is no more absurd than a binity like that of the human hand which has a left and a right version. The difference is that we (as humans) can look at such a binity and see that it makes sense, but we cannot look at a trinity (although some possible exceptions are examined).
Continue September 10, 2015
A rearrangement of, and an addition to, the analogies used in the original essay on Abraham’s defense against Kant’s charge of immoral conduct.
Continue August 16, 2015
An attempt at a new theory of atonement where Jesus dies in order to show people what they must do to obtain a new nature and a commensurate holiness. Added is a comment by Kant suggesting how such an approach can be compatible with any demand for justice (divine or mundane).
Continue July 17, 2015
Some Kantian aspects in the chaos of chasing a moth around the bathroom and trying to kill it.
Continue April 30, 2015
Taken from my journal of 4/18/1989 when I sought to make sense of Kant’s notion of the looking-at (something), the Anschauung.
Continue November 12, 2014
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