First Principles About America: First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of...
Darwin Agrees with God More Than You Know
In the 13th Century there was an interesting Franciscan friar named Ramon Llull (pronounced “yoohl”), who, like another philosopher 400 years later named Pascal,...
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?):
The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can...
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read...
Which came first, the Good or the Bad in World Civilization? Part I
A debate might begin this way:
Satan bragged to Jesus in the Wilderness that he was the master of all the world's Kingdoms, and he would...
“Want-to”: A History Lesson on Stretching Logic Too Far
As you have noticed, especially on Twitter and other social media, a lot of conservatives of every age lead with their biases to come...
The Free Will Of The People
Drowning in a sea of competing interests, in which direction should our free will start swimming?
Science versus God, Who Will Win?
Has anyone been able to explain "how" the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required...
Going Medieval
https://youtu.be/rWOn1dFmFds
This is, and isn’t what you think it is.
If all the history you learned was in high school and college, unless you specialized, you...