Sustaining Care Denied To Non-Terminal Patient

Iowa Police Downplay Violence Against Whites

Bet if the victims had rags on their heads you'd never hear an end to the outrage.

Afrosupremacists Denounce Glenn Beck Rally Open To All Americans Irrespective Of Race

Obama's Stimulus Program Undermines American Liberty & Values

Skank Urinates On British War Memorial

At an event where he shoved his nose up the backside of radical Islam, self-loathing Jew Michael Bloomberg said not building the Ground Zero mosque would "undercut the values...so many died protecting." What value then is being upheld by refusing to let the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church from being rebuilt?

Muppet Archetypes Donated To Smithsonian

Hasselback Endorses Baby Killing

Home Owner Association Classifies "Don't Tread On Me" Flag As Yard Debris

The same kind of human refuse not only tolerates a mosque at Ground Zero but rather enthusiastically applauds a heathen structure as well.

Manure Pile Nations Of The World Criticize U.S. Human Rights Record

Education Establishment Insists Stupid Parents To Do As Told By Professionals

Americans Continue Sleepwalk Into Tyranny

Taliban Launch Attack On Afghan Girl's School

Your sharia law for you. Let's see what the ground zero mosque folks have to say about this.

Rev. Moon To Buy Back Washington Times From His Son

If scientists claim that Hitler's DNA had African characteristics, does that mean he would qualify for Affirmative Action set asides or that students can write reports on him now for Black History month?

Stuffshirt G-Men Seek To Learn Jive Talk

A White House "water carrier" acted like the Obama Administration had extended Franklin Graham the epitome of tolerance by recognizing that the evangelist is titled to his opinion when Graham pointed out that, according to Islamic law and tradition, Barack Obama was considered a Muslim through his father’s parentage. Technically, Graham’s statement would be considered a FACT rather than an opinion. I guess this is one way we simply disappear entire inconvenient epistemological realities now.

Cosmic Humanism On The Rise

The New York Times published an article warning women not to date frugal misers. Does the paper also intend to publish a similar article warning men to avoid spendaholic skanks?

Susan Boyle Puts Teen Pissants In Their Place

Was Miss Phillippines denied the Miss Universe crown because she has not lived a life of drunkeness and whoredom? Not everyone can be a tattooed deadbeat that refuses to pay their mortgage like Stephen Baldwin.

Are Islamists Attempting To Takeover Fox News

If the Obama Administration wants to insist that it is improper for Arizona to check the identification of a suspected illegal, then why does Piers Morgan have to have all the correct paperwork before he can assume Larry King's CNN position.

Will Tax Laws Be Used To Destroy Internet Speech?

American Flag Motiff Removed From Justice Department Website

Farah/Coulter Clash Continues

Wonder if most conservatives know that one of the primary spokesman of the Institute on The Constitution seems to believe that the answer to nearly every offense is the death penalty and a "barefoot and pregnant" sociology in that women should be denied the right to vote.

Indians On Warpath Over Bloomberg Comment

Is The Government So Controlled By Perverts That It Won't Take A Stand Against Prison Rape?

Given that her skirts off barely cover her rear, wouldn't that make Ann Coulter a bigger whore than Joseph Farah?

Was Yuri Gagarin Murdered?

American Teen Duped Into Being North Korean Pawn

Obviously, this urchin's parents are stupider than he is.

Pat Buchanan Embraces Ground Zero Mosque

Court Grants Right To Lie About Military Service

Just don't get caught praying about the matter in front of an abortion clinic.

Arab Media Mogul Admits Ground Zero Mosque Would Be Monument To Terrorism

Prince Charles condemns commoners soaking in the bath tub while he owns four estates, four luxury cars and his mother is known to keep at least ten dogs. Guess those don't need a bath or to be washed.

Lessons In Apologetics #4: Pragmaticism & Combinationalism

The next theory of truth and religious knowledge is pragmatism. Developed initially by Charles Sander Pierce and expanded by William James, pragmatism is the theory that truth is not determined by what one thinks, feels, or discovers but rather by what works.

Christians may instinctively recoil from this initially. However, the proper response to this epistemological methodology needs to be more nuanced than the believer might originally suspect.

Providing in part an alternative to the early 20th century viewpoint promoted in large part by Sigmund Freud that belief in God was psychologically harmful, in works such as "The Varieties Of Religious Experience", James believed religion should be judged by its results in the life of the individual. Overall, James concluded that, "In a general way...on the whole...our testing of religion by practical common sense and the empirical method leaves it in possession of its towering place in history. For economically, the saintly group of qualities is indispensable to the world’s welfare (109).”

However, any alliance the Christian apologist may make with William James is tenuous at best. For example, James categorized the pantheistic outlook of Mediterranean paganism as healthy and those emphasizing the need to be “twice born” as epitomizing a Germanic dourness characterized by an obsession regarding man’s fallen nature and need to be saved by God (105).

Though few in number, Christian apologists have adapted pragmaticism to the defense of the faith. Foremost among these is Francis Schaeffer.

Schaeffer’s method might not be considered solely pragmatic by the methodology’s purists as he does not allow a worldview’s viability to determine whether or not it is true but rather to show how the Christian worldview is the most consistently livable. Schaeffer refers to this test as an experiential teleological argument (110).

In a Schaefferian apologetic, one takes the propositions of a particular worldview and projects them onto the movie screen of life. For example, Schaeffer noted how the materialism of Jackson Pollock drove the artist to suicide and how musician John Cage did not adhere to the philosophy of chance that categorized his music when it came to picking potentially deadly mushrooms

The next epistemological methodology is combinationalism. Throughout this discourse thus far, it has been observed that, while each methodology contributes something to our understanding of God and knowledge, none of these approaches is sufficient enough to stand alone as the only way through which to obtain an understanding of reality. But instead of falling into a state of solipsistic dismay that nothing can be known since each approach falls short, combinationalists suggest that the insights of each method ought to be knit together in order to produce the most comprehensive understanding possible.

One such apologist utilizing this approach is Edward J. Carnell. Carnell combines rationalism, which he defines as a “horizontal self-consistency so that all of the major assumptions of the position can be so related together that they placate the rules of formal logic” and evidentialism, which he categorizes as “a vertical fitting of the facts” in that one’s assumptions must cohere with the “real concrete facts of human history (122).” Together, these elements make up systematic consistency.

However, even combinationalists must proceed with caution. As Geisler points out in “the leaky bucket argument”, if the other methodologies are insufficient on their own, these do not necessarily hold the epistemological water any better when they are combined together (129). Furthermore, often when one proceeds to evaluate a worldview, it can be very easy to fall into the trap of presupposing the worldview before it has been established or the facts are spun in such a way to fit into the worldview.

For example, Geisler uses the example of Christ's Resurrection. Geisler writes, "An apologist...cannot legitimately appeal to the miracle of Christ's resurrection as a proof for the existence of God (129)." This statement, shocking on its face value, means that God is already presupposed if the event is categorized as miraculous in terms of its explanation. Geisler reassures, "On the other hand, grant that God already exists, then the resurrection may very well be a miraculous way of confirming that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God (129)."

Source:
Geisler, Norman. "Christian Apologetics". Baker Academic, 1988.

By Frederick Meekins

If Nancy Pelosi thinks everybody has the right to express their religious beliefs on their own property, is she going to come out as enthusiastically in support of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church as she has the Ground Zero mosque?

If Nancy Pelosi thinks everybody has the right to express their religious beliefs on their own property, is she going to come out as enthusiastically in support of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church as she has the Ground Zero mosque?

Eyescanners To Turn World Cities Into Virtual Police States

Pentagon Castigated For Noticing Chinese Military Expansion

Billionaires Minding Their Own Business Shouldn't Have To Explain Why They Haven't Taken The Oath To Give Away 1/2 Their Fortunes

Only those that drone on about giving back to the COMMUNITY or how we mere commoners have too much should have this matter rubbed in their faces.

Establishmentarian Headshrinkers Denounce Superheroes As Sarcastic & Insufficiently Communal

Mind-controlling Parasites

If no independent photojournalists were permitted to accompany him, how can it be verified that those were Gulf waters that President Obama was frolicking in?

Farah & Coulter Spat Over Homocon

Is Ray Bradbury A Totalitarian Libertarian?

Government Attempts To Censor Glenn Beck's Kennedy Center Prayer

Liberals Falling All Over Themselves Over What To Call Terrorist Compound

Tolerancemonger media in an uproar if the disputed NYC structure will be a mosque or an Islamic Center Guess their is no such quandry regarding news coverage of Saudi Arabia or Iran since those regimes allow neither churches nor public expressions of Christianity.

A Harris Poll laments women treated with less chivalry. Maybe it's because fewer of them act like ladies. Why should you go out of your way for someone with an earring in their nose and their bosom falling out of their low-cut blouse who doesn't even have the decency to cover over their tramp stamp?

Obama Literally Inflicts Pain Upon The American People

According to the Riverdale Park Town Crier's July 2010 edition, at the 90th anniversary celebration of the town charter a speaker highlighted the town's "strong ties" to the Hispanic community reaching back to the municipality’s “earlier years”. Was mention made of White folks or are we just expected to pay the increasing tax bills and to keep our mouth’s shut?

Dr. Laura Surrenders To The Thought Police

Why should she have to apologize for merely reporting what she heard?

Julia Roberts Renounces Christ, Embraces Hindu Paganism

Hopefully, the filthy swami seated next to her of every penny she has.

Someone ought to invite them over for burgers sometime.

Granted, his is not the most informative program in the lineup. However, the fact that Huckabee has a show on Fox News rather than pastoring a church is a bit of a stretch as credible evidence that he has walked away from God. Who is to say that God has not called him to this change during this season in his life? More importantly, isn't the assumption that formalized professional ministerial positions are superior to other vocations one of the reasons why culture is now such a fetid cesspool?

The P.G. County board of education has permitted the group 100 Black Men of MD to establish a charter school. Would the same opportunity be extended to the Tea Party Movement or, more importantly, a group called "100 White Men"?

The Hallmarks Of Eco-hypocrisy

Brits Told To Take Abuse From Foreigners

U.S. Government Financing Mosque Repair & Upkeep

Welfare Deadbeats Rampage

Just see what the TSA would do to you if you grabbed two beers and deployed the escape chute no matter how justifed your actions were.

Apparently Jennifer Anniston Comprehends Neither Biology Nor Social Sciences

The actress claimed that women no longer have to "fiddle with a man" in order to have a child.

If there is no "fiddling" involved, from where are the necessary gametes acquired?

More importantly, if women don't need any assistance from men in raising children, don't let them look towards a fat uncle named Sam either in terms of handouts nor to strongarm the deadbeats fathering these youngsters.

Seems Elton John is as prominently featured as the bride along with Rush Limbaugh's wedding pictures posted on Facebook.

If passengers have to remain quiet & pliant at the hands of abusive airline staff & security out of fear of terrorism charges, shouldn't airline staff also have to take the beration from irrate passengers as well?

UN Attempts To Seize Control Of Public School System

Audio: Olympics Subtly Lure Tots Into Paganism's Embrace

Olympics Subtly Lure Tots Into Paganism's Embrace
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Liberals are having the vapors that Fox News has an insufficient number of African American viewers. Are these multiculturalists also going to toss a hissy over the very name of Black Entertainment television alienating Whites? Instead of blaming Fox News for not appealing to Blacks, maybe Blacks should be chastised for not liking Fox News as such is likely an indication of preferring a life of indolence and government dependence.

Judge Rules Muslims Permitted To Beat Women

Sodomite Matrimony Penetrates Deeper Into Conservative Movement

Obama's Expect You To Toss Your Elderly Into The Garbage While They Mourn Their's With Lavish Iberian Vacations

Palin Is Correct: Some Teachers Need An Eyerolling

Contrary to leftist press, teachers deserve no more adoration than any other profession and, in the case of the public school system, have been at the forefront of collapsing the republic.

State Department Finances Muslim Missionary Trips

Haggard Insists Gay Marriage No Different Than Being Overweight Or Taking An Aspirin

Hispanosupremacists Denounce Deportations

Will Oil Contaminate Food Supply?

Anne Rice Renounces Christianity

Aren't the competing worldviews she claims are given the shaft by Christians actually bigger burs in the world's backside than organized Christendom?

Government Forbids Collecting Rainwater Falling On Your Property

Won't be long until they claim the fruits of your vegetable garden and supplies in your food pantry as well as a COMMUNITY resource.

The Obamas should sit their rearends home like just about everyone else. Sick of these spineless pundits going on how they don't "begrudge" the New Lord his recreation. Yet it must be remembered it was Il Duce that condemned the rest of us for daring to eat what we want, driving SUV's, and keeping thermostat on 70 degrees.

Doubt Magic Johnson ever had AIDS or HIV. Would he have been allowed to play basketball with a President of the United States where there might have been an accident where this pestilence could have been transmitted? But I guess Johnson no more disease ridden than the members of the gay bathhouse Obama is said to be a member of.

Hawking Urges Galactic Colonization

Scottish Priest A Terrorist Sympathizer

Jill Biden Accused Of Insufficiently Brownnosing Michelle Obama

NYC Ground Zero mosque imam told WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein that "terrorism is a complex issue" and that he is a "bridge builder". That is essentially a veiled confession that he is a terrorist frontman.

Will China Achieve Naval Superiority?

Bloomberg says it's not place of government to vet clergy and everyone is entitled to their opinion. Thus, would he welcome Pat Buchanan or David Duke establishing offices in NYC?

Parents Lose Custody Of Tot Named Hitler

The justification is domestic violence.  Guess if you snatched all the kids named Muhammad where wife beatings took place, you'd not have enough orphanges to house all the foundlings.

Crazed Chinamen Continue Pupil Slaying Rampages

Neither secular statists nor religious theocrats can blame this one on too much freedom.

Did a carnival game where players could shoot foam darts at a figure resembling Obama get the attention of authorities for threatening the President or for insinuating the influence non-terrestrial intelligences might have over government and policy?

Will Positive Thinking Hokem Get Tony Robbins Back On The Air?

NYC Christ-Despisers Rush To Build Mosque But Drag Feet Regarding Church

Wonder if that booze Obama swills, the cigs he puffs, and the cocaine he use to snort were all locally grown.

Candidate Exposes Globalist Efforts To Use Environemtnalism To Destroy Liberty

If Government Videotapes Citizens, Citizens Should Videotape Government

So ashamed of me in the virtual world that you deny knowing of me, perhaps you should consider doing the same in the actual one."

Is Obama Attempting To Rewrite History Of WWII?

Leftist Evangelicals Equate Illegal Aliens With Biblical Patriarchs

Bloomberg Celebrates Islam But Censors Christmas

Batman & Wonder Woman Wed

If the Muslims take over, hopefuilly Mayor Bloomberg and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will be the first Jews rounded up for the new concentration camps.

FBI Distorts Law To Coerce Compliance