Category: Romans
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The Ethic of Happiness Kills the Conscience
In Romans 3: 12-16, the function of the conscience is to hold us accountable to the ethic of fidelity. But in its dark opposite, the ethic of happiness, the conscience has no purpose. The evangelists of the happiness ethic like to tell themselves, in the quiet of the night, that their pursuit of happiness is…
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Conspiracy Theorists and Intelligent Design
1. The uncritical attribution of malignant design I know a man who is paranoid. I don’t mean he is sometimes anxious that others are out to get him, or that he is occasionally dramatic about threats. No, he is paranoid, which means he observes a phenomenon, and then projects onto the unseen backstage of that…