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On Giving God More Than His Due

A friend of mine helped one of his friends recover a chapter of her graduate thesis from a corrupted flash drive. Needless to say, she was appreciative and made this clear on Facebook. Amongst the many compliments and comments to … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on May 3, 2020May 3, 2020Tags Religion, Theology

God, Author of the Bible

In “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Jorge Luis Borges playfully suggests through an unreliable narrator that Don Quixote could have been written twice, once by Miguel de Cervantes in the seventieth-century and again by a fictional French … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 20, 2020April 25, 2020Tags Bible, Christianity, Religion, Scripture

Waiting on My Rights

I’m reading 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know, and was surprised by Barron v Baltimore (1833), which determined that the Bill of Rights doesn’t actually restrict the states. Textually, the ruling seems to be sound as the First … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020Tags Constitution, Law

The Difficulty of Giving

In Theravada Buddhism, the Bodhisattva (the Buddha pre-enlightenment) spent 540 lives cultivating the ten perfections so that he could at last be enlightened as Siddhartha.  The most difficult to master is generosity.  The Bodhisattva began by giving his wealth. Then … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 8, 2020June 27, 2021Tags Buddhism, Philosophy

God’s Lie to Abraham

Earlier we determined that commands can deceive and possibly be lies because they can be used to convey deceptions or lies. What is the theological significance?  We have reason to believe that God deceives Abraham, one of His greatest servants. … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 4, 2020April 4, 2020Tags Bible, Language, Theology

Deceptive Commands, Lying Commands

In the The Man in the High Castle, Inspector Kido orders his subordinate to hunt down an enemy operative. His last instruction is: “I can’t interrogate a corpse.” Of course, this is an instruction. A necromancer newly bereft of … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020Tags Language, Philosophy

Orality and Respawn

There is a frequently overlooked problem in video game design involving the consistency of the game narrative alongside the need for the player to be able to respawn, meaning continue the game in light of being slain by a game … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on March 27, 2020March 28, 2020Tags Narrative, Video Games

Can a Religious Outsider Be a Theologian?

When I was an undergraduate studying religion and a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School I was taught that theology is written by religious insiders, and theologians are religious insiders.  Non-Christians cannot be theologians of Christianity or write Christian theology, … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on March 20, 2020December 8, 2020Tags Religion, Spinoza, Theology1 Comment on Can a Religious Outsider Be a Theologian?

My Hope for a Post-Pandemic America

My hope for a post COVID-19 Pandemic America is that Americans will see restrictions on their freedoms as a blessing.

Allow me to explain my blasphemous words by listing some of the things that I most dislike:

  • Choosing between 50
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Author andy dibblePosted on March 15, 2020March 20, 2020Tags COVID-19, Freedom, Thinking Well

Understand Before You Criticize

Once when I was discussing a paper topic with Frank Clooney, I told him I wanted to critique some parts of the ritual theory of a third-century Indian thinker by the name of Shabara. He asked me, “Have … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on March 12, 2020December 8, 2020Tags India, Religion, Thinking Well

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