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That Time I Was a Cartoon Villain (opens the original)
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I used to scoff at villains from comics and cartoons who want to “destroy the world”. Who would actually want that? Who benefits? What is there to gain? It’s a ridiculous goal, destruction for the sake of destruction. The motive given is always blind hatred, a desire for revenge on a world that slighted them in some way. Stupid and shallow, but sufficient for very young children, who can’t conceive of a more than two dimensional form of evil. “I lost my love, so now I will plunge the world into
Whether Hell or Evil, Theodicy is About Trust (opens the original)
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Substack is all atwitter about Hell these days: my feed has been inundated with takes on eternal conscious torment, with almost all opposed to the idea. For once I can trace the origins of this trend. It seems to have started with Joe Schmid, the popular agnostic YouTuber, converting to Catholicism. That dominated the pages for a good week, followed up by skeptics asking “Why Catholicism? If you picked a liberal Protestant denomination then you could handwave away the hard parts of Christianity,
Mundane Miracles and Providential Probability (opens the original)
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Perhaps the most common kind of mundane miracles are miracles of providence; that is, where you need something and God provides it. Capital “P” Providence means something more than that, but not less. We pray, and God provides. The tricky part is that it’s not always clear whether this is a miracle. I pray that my wife will be safe on her flight to Wisconsin, and lo, she arrives whole in body and mind and almost on schedule! My prayer has been answered, in that the outcome I prayed for occurred;
Mundane Miracles (opens the original)
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There’s been a lot of miracle “discourse” over the last year: healings, Fatima, Cairo apparitions, Fatima, Padre Pio, Fatima, <a href="https://benthams.substa
There are no Coincidences (opens the original)
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The first time that my wife bested me in a debate was during a discussion of destiny. This is not a coincidence. She was my girlfriend at the time, and we had only been dating for a few months. We were walking across the quad of our university, a little Christian school in Oregon, and talking about questions of free will and predestination. It became clear that we generally agreed that both God knows what will happen in the future, and we are free to make actual choices. Yet as I nodded along, s
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