Secular Outpost

To avoid misunderstandings, I’m rooting for the Mariners and I took the Reddit post to be a joke about the bias of the Fox announcers.

I assume that was a joke by the redditor to make fun of the announcers for the things they did say. I was able to listen to the most of the TV broadcast and never heard them say the words the redditor put in their mouths.

Seen on Reddit: 🤣

#Mariners

His ass-holiness, Pope Not-So-Innocent:

"Some people are saying no one does poping like me. That's what they're saying."

The Armed Forces must be politically neutral. Be respectful and responsive to the President and Sec Def. The safeguards to the Constitution rest with Congress, the Judicial system, the voters and the media. In my view our democracy is in grave danger.

YouTube video by MSNBC 'An outrage': Retired Army general slams idea of military using U.S. cities as 'training grounds'

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Remembering Jane Goodall through her favorite charities | CNN Jane Goodall leaves behind a legacy of helping wildlife, championing conservation efforts on every continent, and advocating for the world’s poor.

Whether you’d like to donate to some of her favorite charities, learn more about her work, take on a conservation project – or even consider going vegetarian – here are some of the organizations and causes that were closest to her heart. https://cnn.it/4gXcPYc

Steelmanning the Abductive Moral Argument for Theism Scouting God and Cosmos for Good Evidence Against Naturalism

I'm now posting on Substack. Here's a new post:

"Steelmanning the Abductive Moral Argument"

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#philsky #philosophy #philrel #theism #atheism #apologetics

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act "now" to prosecute him, sources say.

First he fired a U.S. Attorney for refusing to prosecute his political opponents.

Then he installed a political aide and ordered them to come up with trumped-up criminal charges.

It's corruption & an abuse of power by the President.
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White House 'Walk of Fame' features autopen photo instead of Joe Biden - UPI.com A new Presidential Walk of Fame exhibit at the White House omits former President Joe Biden in favor of a photo of an autopen that is signing Biden's signature.

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Deeply disturbing. The actions of a Politburo. Childish. A very dangerous mindset. Something very wrong with Trump and his inner team.

🚨Adolf Hitler rose from political outcast to absolute ruler by exploiting fear, division, and public despair. As democratic institutions bowed to his will, freedom vanished. His rise is more than history—it’s a warning of how tyranny takes hold in plain sight.
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Trump says US wants Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan back No further information was available about how or why the U.S. government would want to reopen Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

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Hard to imagine what operational benefit regaining control of Bagram AFB gives the US. Securing and operating the base would be several thousand US military personnel. To what purpose?

Unrelated question: what’s your position on divine aseity?

While he offered an apology, it lacked any real substance. There was no offer to make amends, no explanation for how such a vile comment about lethal injections could be made in the first place, and no genuine sign of repentance. Doeshe actually regret what he said, or just that he said it publicly?

Hard to imagine. On air. A policy of murder? The constraints have been erased. Walking away from American values.

Orca seen pushing dead calf in Rosario Strait, underscoring fragile future of endangered population Whale J36 was separated from other orcas, pushing a deceased female calf that was full-term or near full-term.

Orca seen pushing dead calf in Rosario Strait, underscoring fragile future of endangered population Whale J36 was separated from other orcas, pushing a deceased female calf that was full-term or near full-term.

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Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

Assassination in a war of resistance against a genocidal occupier (e.g. the Oversteegen sisters) is not the same as assassinating political opponents in the USA. My condemnation was about the latter: terrorism here & now, not acts of war in WWII.

Appreciate the questions, but I don’t want to turn this into an abstract argument thread. My condemnation was specific: political assassination in our context today is wrong.

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

Good question. My condemnation is about assassination and terroristic violence in a democracy, not killing in war. The American Revolution was a war of independence under colonial rule — a very different moral category from murdering political opponents today.

Murder is never the answer. Politically-motivated violence is not okay no matter how much one disagrees with someone else's views. As someone who disagreed strongly with Charlie Kirk's political views, I strongly condemn his murder.

It's a paradox: "damned if they don't" hear it and "damned if they do" and reject it. A truly loving God wouldn't put people in that position.

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The most difficult part of this to swallow: Craig's view implies that evangelism can make things worse for nonbelievers. If a person hears the Gospel and rejects it, their culpability is now explicit.

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Craig's Molinist argument says people in unevangelized areas are there because God knew they'd reject the Gospel anyway. Their salvation was never possible. So, the uneven distribution of belief isn't random—it's a perfect reflection of who would've believed. It's a tough claim to defend.

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I'm finding the "middle knowledge" solution to be an unsatisfying explanation for the unequal distribution of salvation. It feels like an ad hoc philosophical construct designed to protect a theological conclusion, rather than a robust argument that stands on its own.

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