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Research Post – Involuntary Sins

By buza9427 | May 2, 2012

In Robert Merrihew Adams’, Involuntary Sins, he describes that there is a difference between voluntary and involuntary sins. Involuntary sins include things like anger, jealousy, hatred, contempt, and other forms of malice towards other people, while voluntary sins are the sins that you physically do, such as hitting another person. In Adams’ view, he says [...]

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Monday 200 – Materialism

By buza9427 | April 15, 2012

In Lynne Baker’s article, she talks about materialism, which is a counter argument to mind-body dualism (the idea that we have immaterial souls). Baker’s argument for materialism has two major parts to it:
1) First Person Perspective – Humans have the ability of self-awareness or as Baker puts it “the ability to conceive of oneself as [...]

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Second Graded Post: The Problem with Children and Disabled People . . . . (Please read on . . . I’m not mean or heartless!)

By buza9427 | March 26, 2012

In the discussion we had in class today, we spent a lot of time discussing the “punishment deserved is a function of the status of the offended party” clause. This was the discussion where the punishment was based off of how good or bad a person was. In this case, if you walked up to [...]

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“The Good Stuff” Theory – First Graded Post

By buza9427 | March 21, 2012

One topic we discussed in class the other day was the “Good Stuff Theory”. In this theory we said that the whole world be just a little bit better if you added something else to it once in a while. For example, if you were able to just make one cookie for you to eat [...]

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Philosophical Theology – Gethsemane

By buza9427 | February 13, 2012

So, there is a musical known as Jesus Christ Superstar (written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) from the 1970’s which actually proves and disproves some of the concepts that we discussed in class today. (Disclaimer: This is only one view on how Jesus could have been. But it does present some theories related [...]

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Philosophical Theology – More theories on Atonement.

By buza9427 | February 6, 2012

In class today, we talked a lot about atonement and the forgiveness that goes along with it. One question that was raised was “what if the offended didn’t give you the option to atone for what you did wrong?” Well, in my opinion, that raises another question of what if the offender recognized that they [...]

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Philosophical Theology – Morality Class?

By buza9427 | January 30, 2012

In C.S. Lewis’ first book, he references this “Morality Law” repeatedly. In many cases here in the United States, there are many people that believe that there should be some sort of “morality class” in school districts. In this sort of class, some people think that there should be some sort of curriculum that teaches [...]

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