Jules Winnfield on divine intervention
Jules and Vincent eat breakfast and talk philosophy in the famous restaurant scene from Pulp Fiction. There’s some nice dialogue about pigs and dogs before it gets into the deep stuff. Warning: Harsh language. It’s Tarantino, okay? Early last month David Lose wrote an article for the Huffington Post about the Bible. The piece recalls [...]
We like Hume. He doesn’t flame us
Allan Ramsay, Portrait of David Hume, 1766. Hume’s our man. He was skeptical as hell but never got all defensive about it. Image source: Wikimedia Commons For the life of me, I don’t know why I care so much about atheists and atheism. Off the top of my head, I can think of two possible [...]
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On Hanukkah and the miraculous
Anonymous, Hanukkah, 18th century. Source: Wikimedia Commons Sometimes I wish all the miracles in the Bible would just go away. Except maybe the Incarnation and Resurrection. The bigger and flashier the miracle the more I wish it would disappear. But there they all are, from Noah to Daniel to the loaves and fishes. So I [...]
