This may be good, O my brothers.

I'd have paid to watch Alan Moore and David Gibbons create Watchmen. Everything about that book is so meticulous. I'm also curious (and this might be straining the idea of "creative process") about the way great theologians and philosophers- Augustine, for instance, and Luther, maybe Spinoza and Pascal- go about the…

I'd have paid to watch Alan Moore and David Gibbons create Watchmen. Everything about that book is so meticulous. I'm also curious (and this might be straining the idea of "creative process") about the way great theologians and philosophers- Augustine, for instance, and Luther, maybe Spinoza and Pascal- go about the…

@avclub-32b63dd70d870580128d83e930199e1c:disqus You know "were" means "man," right?

@avclub-32b63dd70d870580128d83e930199e1c:disqus You know "were" means "man," right?

I am just green with jealous rage.

I am just green with jealous rage.

21, muhfuckas. Bet you're jealous- I have a whole life of failure and disappointment ahead of me.

21, muhfuckas. Bet you're jealous- I have a whole life of failure and disappointment ahead of me.

@avclub-3642b10fd60230badaed28982a973fd7:disqus People are bigoted everywhere. I went to high school in eastern Mass, and all the white kids called every Latino "Spanish," made fried-chicken-and-watermelon jokes, complained about the "Mexicans" who did their lawns, and called every Jewish kid "Jew." Despite all this,…

@avclub-3642b10fd60230badaed28982a973fd7:disqus People are bigoted everywhere. I went to high school in eastern Mass, and all the white kids called every Latino "Spanish," made fried-chicken-and-watermelon jokes, complained about the "Mexicans" who did their lawns, and called every Jewish kid "Jew." Despite all this,…

My first thought.

My first thought.

@avclub-e8e1ea96f3b1bf8e7400065325e188c8:disqus I don't care so much about the five points, myself. I do agree with them, but I'm much more interested in the cultural/cosmological aspects of Calvinism (Kuyper et alia) than with arguing about free will.

@avclub-e8e1ea96f3b1bf8e7400065325e188c8:disqus I don't care so much about the five points, myself. I do agree with them, but I'm much more interested in the cultural/cosmological aspects of Calvinism (Kuyper et alia) than with arguing about free will.

I want to say that "capitalism" as such is not incompatible with Christianity, but consumerism is. Something like Calvin's model of economy seems like a very good way of doing things, from an ethical perspective: no predatory lending to the poor, but feel free to charge interest on those who can afford it, spend your…

I want to say that "capitalism" as such is not incompatible with Christianity, but consumerism is. Something like Calvin's model of economy seems like a very good way of doing things, from an ethical perspective: no predatory lending to the poor, but feel free to charge interest on those who can afford it, spend your…

The concept of the immortal soul is really a Platonic import into patristic and medieval theology, more than anything. There are plenty of Christian physicalists these days, and then people like me who are, while not physicalist, intensely anti-dualistic.

The concept of the immortal soul is really a Platonic import into patristic and medieval theology, more than anything. There are plenty of Christian physicalists these days, and then people like me who are, while not physicalist, intensely anti-dualistic.

Eh, yes and no. For one thing, it's possible that Job and the NT don't refer to the same figure: it's not clear that Job is using the word "satan" as a proper name. It might be a more generic sort of term. For another, and this is a view especially popular with people (like me) in Reformed circles, it's not at all…