Hi I just signed up for the forum, I used to be a member some years ago but was not able to get back into my old account, reset the password, or get any word back from the mods/admins so I figured I'd just start from scratch.
A little about me:
- from the northern central US (i.e. cold...
A one-on-one debate format is a good feature for a site like this, but fisking (the practice of quoting and responding to a post piecemeal) and possibly even the quoting function entirely, should not be allowed for this section of the site. Doing away with quotes would make the debates...
Some people, in their inattention to language, will sometimes put forth the sophistical doctrine that there are no truths, or are no facts. Of course, unbeknownst to them, they have already contradicted themselves; asserting X is equivalent to saying X is true, and so, if "there are no truths"...
For most intelligent folks, the difference between belief and knowledge is fairly obvious. However, not everyone is so lucky, so this thread will (hopefully) help certain posters understand this basic difference.
Belief, as the state of holding a certain proposition or claim to be true, is a...
One of the most popular arguments for the existence of God is the so-called "ontological" argument; the argument is typically credited to St. Anselm of Canterbury, who gives his formulation in his Proslogion in the form of a prayer, and for that reason many scholars prefer to not use his...
Truth in Different Religions
Different people, and different cultures, have esteemed truth and honesty differently; not everyone values it in the same way. There is a parable about a Spartan youth who stole a fox and, when he was surprised, hid it under his shirt to escape detection; the...
Ever since it's inception, there has been an anti-intellectualist tendency in Christian theology, which looks askance at reason and views it as a threat- we can likely trace this deprecation of reason to Paul's inversion of Plato's epistemology, which inherited a fateful Platonic error (i.e...