Whereas apostasy and heresy involve directly conflicts between social groups, whether within religious communities or between religious communities, blasphemy is conceived as a conflict between humans and the divine. Specifically, blasphemy is the accusation whenever a person fails to accord the divine the honor and respect that is presumably owed.

 

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In Brookville, Pennsylvania, there is a conflict between the First Apostles Doctrine Church and the municipal government because the church wants to provide shelter for the homeless but the government wants the church to abide by local zoning regulations. No one disputes the value in helping the homeless, but government officials do insist that acting in the name of Jesus isn't a sufficient justification for simply ignoring the law. Rev. Jack L. Wisor seems to disagree Read more...

Life is an amazing thing. Throughout human history, we have tried to understand life — what it is, why it exists, and how it has developed. Only in the last fifty years or so, however, have we developed enough of an understanding about the nature of life — from the tiniest cells up through the workings of the human brain — to really move forward on understanding how life might have developed. We still have quite a ways to go of course, but we've already come farther than most people realize.

 

Book of the Week: Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning

A difficult, complex, and controversial philosopher, Nietzsche has been claimed as part of a number of difficult philosophical movements. Because his work was consciously designed to break from the philosophy of the past, it is perhaps expected that much of what would come after him would expand upon the themes he discussed and therefore claim him as their forerunner.

 

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