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Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? A Question Explored Through Sheep and Goats

December 20, 2015 by Randal

It’s been about a week since Wheaton College political science professor Larycia Hawkins was launched into the spotlight after she was suspended by Wheaton College, in part because she declared: “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, exclusivism, inclusivism, Islam, Rwanda, salvation

The Canaanite genocide as cruel and unusual punishment in extremis

March 5, 2013 by Randal

We’ve now arrived at the ninth installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s podcast “Richard Dawkins and Driving out the Canaanites.” And you’re thinking to yourself: “Geez, isn’t this overkill? Move on Rauser.” And I’m thinking: “That pun was in poor taste. And I’m not moving on, because there is just so much […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Canaanite, ethics, genocide, herem, Old Testament, Rwanda, war, William Lane Craig

What’s splitting your church? Worship music or genocide?

December 11, 2011 by Randal

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35 Suburban North American Church As everybody rose to sing Al stayed seated in the pew, arms crossed defiantly. He never stood during the choruses. Driving drums, distorted guitar and vacuous lyrics. “They make it sound like Jesus is […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, ecclesiology, genocide, Rwanda, worship wars

On being skeptical of the skeptics

November 7, 2010 by Randal

In “Surely you can’t be serious” I wrote that “The evil of the cannibal seeking to eat Jim is, to put it bluntly, a metaphysically necessary truth.” Brenda responded: “Well, that is a claim. One you have not proved must be true. I don’t see how you can ‘prove’ that cannibalism is necessarily wrong the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, moral objectivism, morality, rape, Rwanda, synthetic a priori

Rape as objectively evil

October 31, 2010 by Randal

In my last post I stated that rape is objectively evil and any worldview that cannot count for this fact suffers accordingly. Alexander responded with a refreshing dose of dramatic bravado: “Not so, Randal Rauser! According to Randy Thornhill, rape is actually an evolution of a ‘genetically advantageous behavioral adaptation’ and, in that context, not inherently evil.” This […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, genocide, morality, rape, Romeo Dallaire, Rwanda, Sam Harris

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