Tag Archives: atheism

“Sharing” Faith

Posted on May 1, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

I have not posted in a while, but it’s because the sequel to Sunlost is alllmoooost readddyyyyy…. I swear! Anyway, I wanted to comment on this, er… actually, I wanted to adapt a comment I made about it on Facebook. … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Humor, Life | Tagged atheism, CAIR, Christian, Christianity, Dwight Eisenhower, enlisted, faith, Fallout 3, Ford Hood, freedom of speech, gay rights, Hindu, homosexuality, Ike, islam, islamist, liberty, military, muslim, Nidal Hasan, officers, Pentagon, radical atheism, religion, technology, Western Civilization | Leave a comment

Thinking Doesn’t Make It So

Posted on March 3, 2013 by J.T. O'Connell

Hamlet: Let me question more in particular: what have you my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she send you to prison hither? Guildenstern: Prison, my lord! Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison. Rosencrantz: Then is the world one? Hamlet: … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary | Tagged absolute truth, Act 2 Scene 2, atheism, Batman, C.S. Lewis, Cogito ergo sum, Dark Knight Trilogy, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, God, God is dead, Hamlet, I think therefore I am, insanity, Laertes, logic, madness, Mere Christianity, Moral Argument, morality, Ophelia, Orthodoxy, post-modernism, relativity, René Descartes, Shakespeare, The Dark Knight, truth | 1 Comment

From Micromachines to Nano-Machines

Posted on August 1, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

As a fan of Star Trek, I was always impressed with the replicator. Truth be told, it was a solution to a big problem that can really hamper a science-fiction story. How do you feed people who are on missions … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Fascination, Life, Reviews, Science | Tagged atheism, atheist, Ben Stein, Bible, cellular biology, Crichton, DNA, Einstein, energy and matter, Expelled, faith, Frank Turek, genetics, God, history, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, James Surowieki, nano, nano-technology, NASB, No Intelligence Allowed, Norman Geisler, Peter Atkins, philosophy, photosynthesis, prey, quantum physics, replication, replicator, research, science, Signature in the Cell, Star Trek, Stephen C. Meyer, synthesis, Wisdom of Crowds | Leave a comment

Darkness Embraced Part 2

Posted on June 6, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

From Jeanne DuPrau’s The People of Sparks “I hate it here,” said Lina. “Yes,” said Maddy. “Terrible things happened in this place. You can still feel it.” “Were the people in those old days extremely evil?” Lina asked. “No more … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Life | Tagged atheism, darkness, ethics, evil, humanism, humanist, morality, relative, relativity, right and wrong | Leave a comment

Darkness Embraced Part 1

Posted on May 30, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

Many periods in American history have been overshadowed with a dreadful gloom, times when no one could see any future except in some bleak and blighted misery. Probably, the war between the states (known as the Civil War) is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Life | Tagged abortion, Abraham Lincoln, assassination, atheism, brutality, cannibalism, Christianity, civil war, decapitation, FDR, God, Great Depression, Hobart Mauer, human value, human worth, humanism, humanity, libertarianism, macabre, multi-culturalism, murder, post-modernism, prolife, Sam Harris, Ted Bundy, theism, utilitarianism, vampires | 1 Comment

The Heart of Everything

Posted on April 25, 2012 by J.T. O'Connell

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee! -Polonius (Hamlet Act 1, scene 3) … Continue reading →