benevolent umpire part ii

So we’ve established that for believers, God explains a part of life that is seemingly contrary to the human ideal, i.e. unfairness. For believers, God settles the accounts in the end, because life as we know it is but a small part of our total existence.
For atheists, the job of squaring accounts is settled by [...]

for it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out part i

I got into a knock-down, drag-out with an atheist liberal over his accusation that conservatives tend to believe in God because they do not think critically for themselves.
But he’s got the direction of causality all wrong. Believers are conservatives because of their belief, ceteris paribus. Not the other way around. It’s because a particularity of [...]

happiness and baseball

Tonight I had some fabulous luck. I decided to head on down to Busch Stadium to watch the Cards and Reds duke it out. Now Brian and I stood in standing room till the bottom of the second, when two lovely young ladies came like manna from heaven and presented us with free tickets to [...]

Summertime

I love summer. I love the smell of the grass. I love the color of the grass. I love the freedom of waking every day to a day’s work; rather than to a month’s study play.
More than that, I love the plains in summer. I love thunderheads over the prairie, where blues and purples accent [...]