{"id":7579,"date":"2024-12-13T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2024-12-13T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:55:28","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-482","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/12\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-482","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 482"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>\n\n On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Why Chris\u00adtians Oppose Euthana\u00adsia<\/a> (Brad East, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cUnlike many top\u00adics in the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and ethics, this is not an issue on which the church has ever been ambigu\u00adous. There were no ear\u00adly church coun\u00adcils to debate the tak\u00ading of inno\u00adcent life. It didn\u2019t take cen\u00adturies of con\u00adflict to adju\u00addi\u00adcate. On the con\u00adtrary, Chris\u00adtians were known from the start for their adamant rejec\u00adtion of pagan dis\u00adre\u00adspect for those unwant\u00aded by their fam\u00adi\u00adlies or deemed social\u00adly useless\u2014the unborn and new\u00adborn, dis\u00adabled and elder\u00adly.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. When Was Jesus Born? Ital\u00adian Researcher Puts Christ\u2019s Birth in Decem\u00adber, 1 BC<\/a> (Edward Pentin, Nation\u00adal Catholic Reg\u00adis\u00adter): \u201c[Herod was alive when Jesus was born, and we know Herod died after a lunar eclipse.] Ulti\u00admate\u00adly, based on the most accu\u00adrate analy\u00adsis pos\u00adsi\u00adble today of the vis\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty to the naked eye of the lunar eclipses, the search for one of it real\u00adly vis\u00adi\u00adble in Judea 2,000 years ago, placed in rela\u00adtion to oth\u00ader chrono\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal ele\u00adments deduced from the writ\u00adings of Jose\u00adphus Flav\u00adius and Roman his\u00adto\u00adry, leads to a sin\u00adgle pos\u00adsi\u00adble solu\u00adtion \u2014 name\u00adly, a dat\u00ading of the death of Herod the Great occur\u00adring in AD 2\u20133, com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adble with the con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal begin\u00adning of the Chris\u00adt\u00adian era \u2014 i.e., the Nativ\u00adi\u00adty occurred at the end of the year 1 BC.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Sci\u00adence and Reli\u00adgious Dog\u00adma\u00adtism<\/a> (Mat\u00edas Cabel\u00adlo, SSRN): \u201cBut why were non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders and oth\u00ader free\u00adthinkers par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly cre\u00adative? Not because of lack of mys\u00adti\u00adcism. Deists, with their mys\u00adti\u00adcal belief in some sort of deity, have been as pro\u00adduc\u00adtive in sci\u00adence as out\u00adright athe\u00adists (if not more). One pos\u00adsi\u00adble expla\u00adna\u00adtion for their joint abnor\u00admal\u00adly high pro\u00adduc\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty is that free\u00adthink\u00ading and athe\u00adism opened up a whole path of ideas dis\u00adcon\u00adnect\u00aded from the pre\u00advail\u00ading thought sys\u00adtem.\u2026 By the same token, how\u00adev\u00ader, it fol\u00adlows that, in a world over\u00adwhelm\u00ading\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded by athe\u00adists, the most inge\u00adnious ideas should instead come from the few reli\u00adgious\u00adly mind\u00aded (as long as their the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy offers a suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading thought sys\u00adtem to dis\u00adcov\u00ader the secrets of nature). A result con\u00adsis\u00adtent with this inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion is the decline of the athe\u00adism coef\u00adfi\u00adcient among 20th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry born sci\u00aden\u00adtists of table 1. By then, athe\u00adism had gone from being a dan\u00adger\u00adous and uncon\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal world\u00adview to become wide\u00adspread among the sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic elite.\u201d\n