El pecado original sostiene que todos nacemos pecadores. Todos tenemos la necesidad de hacer cosas malas y desobedecer a Dios. Según la enseñanza, el pecado original es la condición espiritual y psicológica normal de los seres humanos. Incluso un bebé recién nacido, que no ha hecho nada en absoluto, está dañado por el pecado original. […]
Original Sin
The Genesis story and the Augustinian interpretation of original sin Original sin holds that everyone is born sinful. We all have a built-in urge to do bad things and disobey God. According to the teaching, original sin is the normal spiritual and psychological condition of human beings. Even a newborn baby, who hasn’t done anything at […]
The Leap of Faith- Reza Aslan on ‘God’
Summary: There is either a God who cares about us, or an animating spirit that does not care, or creation is an accident. But the difference between an animating spirit that does not care about us and the accident theory seems negligible. Believing in a “God” that might just as easily be described as “nature’ […]
Random thoughts on the passing of a small animal
Lucy, our cat, was a weakling. She was the runt of her Devon Rex litter and Devons are on the runty side to begin with. Plus she had suffered an allergic reaction to a vaccine as a kitten. This left her with a chronic nasal condition. She was a snuffller. When we bought her sister Evie, the breeder asked us to take Lucy as […]
Our success as a species? How can we judge?
Introduction Philosophers have considered the nature of existence (metaphysics), whether god exists (religious philosophy), how we can know things (epistemology), how we can lead a good, just or happy life (moral philosophy or ethics) and how societies can best be organised (political philosophy). Scientists, biologists in particular, have considered how species, including our own, are […]