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In this engrossing work, written for a doctorate in theology at the Catholic University of America, George J. Lucas crafts a rebuttal to Herbert Spencer's work The Unknowable, which claims agnostic science and metaphysics render the concept of a deity untenable. Lucas begins his work with a history of agnosticism, believing it a misunderstood philosophy, before launching into his argument that religion and science can work in harmony, one does not...
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Extrait: "Les grandes idées directrices, les concepts régulateurs de la métaphysique ne changent guère, d'une époque à une autre. Ils le pourraient, assurément, encore moins, dans le court espace d'un siècle. Aussi préférons-nous, dans les pages suivantes, nous adresser directement aux maîtres un peu délaissés aujourd'hui, à Emmanuel Kant et à Auguste Comte, plutt qu'à leurs récents continuateurs."
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Do you practice a religious faith that you were raised in, but deep down inside it just doesn't feel right to you?
Then this book is for you!
-Are you struggling with your sexuality especially when dealing with the conflict of your faith and true self?
Then this book is for you!
-Are you in search of what you truly believe about a higher power?
Then this book is for you!
-Do you feel at peace with not following a specific religion but are made...
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As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive intelligence to a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of belief; and lack of belief. Many books and pundits advocate for a specific God, while...
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Leading apologists Dr. Norman Geisler and Alex McFarland (President of Southern Evangelical Seminary) look at the important questions of life, including:
• What can we know about the existence of God?
• What can we know about right and wrong?
• Is belief in God compatible with science?
• Is there scientific evidence supporting the belief in God?
• If there is a good God, why is there evil?
• What about all the evil done in the name of...
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xiv, 338 pages ; 25 cm
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A noted attorney turns his sharp logic on both atheists and religious believers, arguing that agnosticism--a skepticism toward religious certainty of all kinds--is the best stance to take when it comes to considering a higher power.
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Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.
The first individuals to identify themselves as atheists lived in the 18th century during...
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
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My book consists of seven chapters as follows:
Chapter 1 - What is Agnosticism
Chapter 2 - What is Religious Faith
Chapter 3 - Common Objections to the Bible
Chapter 4 - The Random Cruelty of Life
Chapter 5 - Assorted Quotes and Humorous Tidbits
Chapter 6 - Some Noted Agnostics
Chapter 7 - Quotes from Yours Truly
The book explores the possibility that there is no transcendent, creative intelligence beyond the universe; that the Cosmos is all...
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The fanciful, witty and amusing love scenes of and idealized actress of stage and screen at the turn of the twentieth century.
"This little book is not in the least statistical, it is merely the legitimate off-spring of imagination and observation. Personally, the only man that ever told me he could not live without me was divorced by the lady he married two months afterwards, on the ground of cruelty. However, this is my idea of how a popular actress...
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This book covers in a humorous way a man's journey out of the Mormon church into atheism.in addition he was a Mormon temple worker, married 6 times, father of 14 children, 2 of which were adopted, And holds 2 masters degrees from BYU, in child development and human psychology. He has many books about what it was like growing up in in Utah being a Mormon, and describes all their crazy ways.
This book covers in a humorous way a man's journey out of...
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Deceit. Hatred. Intolerance. Mind control. Threats of eternal damnation. Sexual and psychological abuse. War and death. 911. Religion, created and promulgated by man, is a major player in these and countless other atrocities and abuses of the human body, mind and spirit. Billions remain shackled by the fears and superstitions forced upon them by religious leaders, whose only claim to authority is the one they falsely claim God has given them. True...
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This book shows how close the world came to nuclear catastrophe under President Reagan and how this was prompted by what the author calls 'biblical BS'. The book begins with a brief survey for the purpose of clarifying to the reader the nature of their own religious belief. It then continues into an explanation of the pre-historic religious impulse. After defining what is meant by 'biblical BS' in chapter 3, the author looks at the topics of 'objectivity',...
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This book is aimed primarily at Catholics but has much to offer any Christian who is prepared to approach it with an open mind. For such a person, it offers an interesting and unique insight into a Catholic perspective on the times we are living in. It is a call for a radical reappraisal of what it means to be a mainstream Catholic.
It is the considered view of the author that the Catholic Church, particularly in the Western world, has grown lukewarm...
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Las primeras páginas de la Biblia, como estableciendo una introducción elemental, presentan de forma narrativa los principios básicos de lo que es el ser humano. Estas páginas hablan de los 'orígenes' del hombre. No en el sentido de los orígenes cronológicos de la humanidad, sino en el sentido de los principios básicos de humanidad, a la luz de la experiencia creyente. Y estos principios básicos son los que el presente libro nos desgrana...
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Sir David the Bard or David was an ex-temple worker for the Mormon Church. Being a active member for 50 years, he married 6 times and bore 13 children while completing nearly 2 masters degrees at BYU. This is a compilation of his rants, raves, funny stories and crazy experiences being an ex-Mormon in a totally dominant Mormon society. His views may seem unbelievable but they are actually true and really happened to him. His stories are unique, funny,...
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In this book you will also find out about the enormous amount of maiming and killing the has been going on for almost two thousand years between the three main religions that believe in the same God. The Christians, Muslims, and the Jews have been at this hateful nonsense for all this time.
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How To Tell If a Mormon Agrees With You. History written by their own historians, prophets, and leaders. That's completely baloney. It exposes what they really believe, and the massive hypocrisy found in most every Mormon, everywhere. This book is one in a series; It talks about Mormon wacky ways of avoiding tough questions about their doctrine, beliefs, and history written here. You will find yourself laughing out loud more than once.
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The Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, "the little Genesis," purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses through the medium of an angel, and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses. Though the actual narrative of events is only carried down to the birth and early career of Moses, its author envisages the events of a later time, and in particular certain...
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A Reluctant Agnostic is a story about sincere, humble, joyous Christianity confronted by contradictory natural evidence-a tale of religious conviction at odds with science.
The author grew up in the very unique Old German Baptist Brethren Church, where he was immersed in wholehearted fundamental faith, and he shares details of the Brethren experience with an insider's affection.
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