Tag: The Reason for God

The origin of human rights, or “Is napalming babies culturally relative?”

On By geochristianIn Apologetics, Christianity, Ethics1 Comment

Timothy Keller, in chapter nine of The Reason for God, discusses the origin of human rights. Do humans intrinsically have unalienable rights, or are these rights something that we have arbitrarily come up with? Keller outlines three possible answers to this question, following Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz: Human rights come from God. God has …

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The Reason for God — the open-mindedness of Christians

On By geochristianIn Apologetics, Christianity16 Comments

A common misconception among skeptics is that Christians are narrow-minded and ignorant, and that skeptics and atheists are open-minded "free thinkers." Perhaps these generalizations are true in some cases, but it was my pleasure Sunday morning to spend an hour with a group of fifteen Christians who certainly don't fit the narrow-minded stereotype. Yesterday at …

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