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Well, since we're still here... {lopsided g} I suppose we should get back to the work of, as I put it Friday, "helping people believe God lives and cares about such things".
The following argument (unlike the galumphing 600+ page monster I finally finished posting up sometime before Easter this year) does not arrive deductively at trinitarian theism, despite its deductive form. Rather, it illustrates that ortho-trin theology (if true) offers the most assurance of a person being ultimately 'saved' compared to other philosophies and theologies (broadly categorized).
Usually I would qualify 'saved' as meaning something like 'saved from sin', but for purposes of this argument I have allowed a broader and more general notion of salvation: as will be seen below, I mean something more like assurance that a person shall be saved from injustices or suffering sooner or later. This would, however, also include being saved from sin (whether from other persons' sins, or from one's own sins.)
(P)remises and (O)bservations are roughly approximate, the main difference being that I expect Observations to be readily agreeable either as topics of common experience or as reasonably obvious summary conclusions from tacit subarguments. A premise may only be an assertion, although ideally it is either a necessary assertion or else is a conclusion imported in from some other not-especially-obvious argument. But either premises or observations may be challenged for purposes of analysis.
(H)ypotheses are the worldview propositions to be compared to one another in conjunction with the various premises and observations (and relevant conclusions).
P(remise) 1.) Salvation (per se) of a person requires that the person to be saved must be saved by at least one person.
O(bservation) 1.) P1 requires some kind of interpersonal union between the saving person and the person to be saved (even if the union is minimal to the extent of there being only one person saving himself).
O2.) The intentions of derivative persons may fail insofar as they may be trumped by the behavior of the ground upon which the derivative persons depend for existence.
C(onclusion) 1.) Other things being equal, a person to be saved has better assurance of finally being saved by some person (whatever 'salvation' is supposed to mean) in proportion to the characteristics of the ultimate ground of reality. (from P1, O1, O2.)
P2.) 'Salvation' involves doing some kind of good to the person being saved.
C2.) Other things being equal, a person to be saved has better assurance of finally being saved in proportion to the likelihood that the characteristics of the ultimate ground of reality involve doing good to persons. (from C1, P2.)
Subsequent hypotheses shall thus address the result of C2 by considering various ideas about the ground of all reality.
H(ypothesis) 1.) The ground of reality is not personal at all. (i.e. naturalistic or supernaturalistic atheism is true.)
C3.) If H1 is true, the ground of reality offers no assurance at all that a person may be saved. (from H1, C1.)
H2.) The ground of reality is such that a derivative person's "personhood" is some kind of declension or fall, that ideally ought to be reversed. (For example, most or all types of negative pantheism.)
O3.) If H2 is true, the personhood of the derivative person should cease to exist eventually.
C4.) If H2 is true, the ground of reality is such that the person to be 'saved' should cease to exist. (from H2, O3.)
O4.) If a person ceases to exist, that person no longer can be the receiver of good done to that person.
C5.) If H2 is true, the ground of reality offers (less than!) no assurance at all that a person (as such) may be saved. (from C2, C4, O4.)
H3.) The independent ground of some reality is personal, but it has nothing to do with the system of reality in which the person to be saved exists. (i.e. cosmological dualism is true or some other philosophy proposing a limited number of Independent Facts, with God being one of the IFs.)
C6.) If H3 is true, the existence of an ultimate God is completely irrelevant to whether a derivative person in that other system of reality (not dependent on God for its existence) may be saved. (from H3, C1)
H4.) The ground of all reality is (somehow) both personal and non-personal.
O5.) Any expectation of behavior of the H4 ground of reality is perfectly balanced by its equal and opposite characteristics.
C7.) If H4 is true, the ground of reality offers no particular assurance that a person may be saved. (from C1, H4, O5.)
H5.) The ground of all reality is personal (i.e. God exists), but God refuses to have anything to do with this system of reality other than being (in some way) its originator. (i.e. minimal deism is true.)
C8.) If H5 is true, the ground of reality (God) offers (less than?) no assurance that a person may be saved. (from C1, H5.)
H6.) The ground of reality is personal, but although God is interested in subordinate realities, God refuses to act in regard to the operations of those subordinate realities. (i.e. nominal deism is true.)
O6.) A derivative person, as a derivative person, must exist in a subordinate system of reality, one way or another.
C9.) If H6 is true, the ground of reality offers (less than?) no assurance that a person may be saved. (from C1, H6, O6.)
H7.) Entities more powerful than human persons exist, but the ground of reality is still essentially as stated in one of the previous hypotheses.
C10.) If H7 is true, the ground of reality is at best irrelevant to the salvation of a person; and might offer less than no assurance of the salvation of a person. (from H7, C{3:9})
H8.) Some theism more immanent than nominal deism is true; but God is primarily concerned with the mere exercise of effective power.
O7.) Someone needing 'salvation' is at least being threatened by an effective exercise of power (one way or another).
C11.) If H8 is true, the ground of reality offers no assurance that a person may be saved; and maybe less than no assurance! (from H8, O7, C11.)
H9.) God exists, but is not in Himself a unity of Persons.
O8.) If H9 is true, then God has nothing intrinsically to do with unity between persons.
C12.) If H9 is true, the ground of reality offers (at best) less assurance that a person may be saved, than if God had intrinsically to do with unity between persons. (from H9, O8, C1, maybe also C2.)
H10.) God exists, and is in Himself a unity of Persons; but this unity has nothing to do with His own self-existence.
O9.) If H10 is true, then God could act finally against unity among persons, without acting against the ground of His own self-existence.
C13.) If H10 is true, the ground of reality offers (at best) less assurance that a person may be saved, than if God's own self-existence had intrinsically to do with unity between persons. (from H10, O9, C1, maybe also C2.)
H11.) God exists, and is in Himself a unity of Persons, and this unity has something to do with His own self-existence (i.e. positive aseity is true, and God exists at least as the person of God self-begetting and the person of God self-begotten).
C14.) If H11 is true, the ground of reality offers more assurance that a person (even an enemy of God) may sooner or later finally be saved, than all previous hypotheses. (from C1, maybe also C2, H11, C{3:13})
H12.) God exists, and is in Himself a self-begetting and self-begotten unity of Persons; and the next ontologically prior action of this Unity (beyond the positive upkeep of self-existence of the Persons in Unity of fair-togetherness with one another) is the generating and giving of that-which-is-God between the Persons. (i.e., trinitarian theism is true, with the 3rd Person of God proceeding eternally from the begetting and begotten Persons as a gracious gift from person to person.)
P3.) Doing good between persons ideally involves giving that which is the greatest good from one person to another.
C15.) If H12 is true, the ground of reality offers even more assurance that a person (even an enemy of God) may sooner or later be saved, than all previous hypotheses. (from C1, definitely also C2, H12, C{3:14})
(Note: the argument as formulated does not of itself consider the question of distinction between naturalistic theism or supernaturalistic theism. H12, for example, might involve some kind of trinitarian pantheism, so far as this argument goes.)
The final conclusion above, is (as I said) not an argument that orthodox trinitarian theism is true; but it helps show something important at stake, in trying to discover which of the hypotheses (and their subgroups) is true compared to the others.
If ortho-trin is not true, it is quite literally too good to be true. We shall have to be satisfied (so far as we can be) with something less good being true.
Any news less than this, is less of a gospel: less-good news.
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Well, since we're still here... {lopsided g} I suppose we should get back to the work of, as I put it Friday, "helping people believe God lives and cares about such things".
Because some guy with a highly over-convenient interpretive scheme thinks the Rapture will occur in the next 24 hours. Surely, none of us will be left behind, right...? {wry g}
All kidding aside: if we are not looking for the fulfillment of justice in the world, especially against ourselves where we deserve it, then we're doing something wrong. We're rejecting justice at all, or we're putting our own selves up as being the final standard of justice, in mere competition with other persons.
So, whether we're Christian or not, whether we believe Harold Camping's prediction or not (and obviously I don't), let us take this opportunity as a reminder to be penitent of our sins, whether those we have already renounced and left behind, or those we are still being freed from, and cry for justice--to the farthest extents we can see and beyond!
Because, after all, whether or not the world begins to end tomorrow, I can predict with 100% certainty that, barring an outright miracle otherwise, some people will die--as they do on any other day. The day of repentance may be "Today" for as long as it is called "Today", but without repentance that promise of hope remains unfulfilled, whether today or in any day to come. Don't refuse that hope or deny it!--be fair to others!--at least be a sheep and not a goat!
You may not believe in a God to be reconciled to, or Who will reconcile you to Himself and to your enemies; but you still have a choice to act in hope and justice for other people. Or not.
Will your legacy to the people after you be one of hope?--or of hopelessness?
Choose now, today, for as long as it is called Today; and do something about it.
(And if you can believe in God, and that God even cares about such things, then pray to Him for help and strength in being fair to other people.)
Precious few details in this article, but interesting conclusion. Also suggests we are not really "born atheists" as some atheists like to argue (for reasons I still don't quite gather).
Somewhat rare mainstream media coverage of a religious issue in the Telegraph, Richard Dawkins accused of cowardice for refusing to debate existence of God.
I'm a little skeptical it is just cowardice, perhaps its pride or even a fear of letting theism come across as too credible via an opponent like William L. Craig. But at least one of Dawkin's fellow atheist intellectuals is urging him to reconsider:
Dr Daniel Came, a philosophy lecturer and fellow atheist, from Worcester College, Oxford, wrote to him urging him to reconsider his refusal to debate the existence of God with Prof Craig.
In a letter to Prof Dawkins, Dr Came said: "The absence of a debate with the foremost apologist for Christian theism is a glaring omission on your CV and is of course apt to be interpreted as cowardice on your part.
"I notice that, by contrast, you are happy to discuss theological matters with television and radio presenters and other intellectual heavyweights like Pastor Ted Haggard of the National Association of Evangelicals and Pastor Keenan Roberts of the Colorado Hell House."
It is too bad. I suspect it would be one of those "God" debates that captures broad public interest and coverage.
Last time we looked at an general overview of the research, examined a specific study and put it in the context of its research milieu. That study said that rejecting Christianity correlates with low self esteem (LSE). This time we examine an argument made by an atheist, Skycomet the fallen angel (O him! of course). What's old Sky up to these days? He's on the Think Atheist blog. (I don't know the guy but screen names crack me up). In his article "Religious People Have More Self Esteem than Non Religious People," Skycomment argues against this view.
I was sitting in Adolescent Psychology class this morning and the topic was "self-esteem." About half-way through the class, the girl in front of me suggested that "more spiritual [which to theists means more religious] people have higher self-esteem than less spiritual [ie less religious or non-religious] people."
As most of us know, this is an extremely common theist argument against non-theists, particularly atheists. And, although I think the girl truly believed what she was saying...
But, the fact is that I REALLY disagree with her on this!
As documented in my last installment the studies show that there is a fairly solid conclusion suggested by the data, that religious people have high self esteem and such self esteem is a major factor in being religious. That does not automatically translate into the corollary that, therefore, those who reject religious belief must have low self esteem (LSE). We looked at a couple of studies that suggested it was true, but I admitted that is far from being actual proof. The research is just beginning. (I say a couple--one was directly designed to measure that hypothesis, the other correlated self esteem with God image, and skepticism with negative God image so it forms the basis of an argument but in an indirect way).
Skycomet goes on
Having been a former theist myself, I think it's more likely that religion [especially the monotheistic ones] impose low self-esteem on a person rather than bolster it!That's irrelevant, the thesis is that people reject Christianity because of their LSE, and he did fall away. It may have been due to his self esteem. Now observe his view of God and Christianity:
After all [and since I came from Christianity I will use that as an example], what type of messages does Religion send it's believers?He's confirming what Piedmont and the other researchers find, that negative God image is linked to rejecting Christianity, they also find that LSE is related to a negative God image. So in fact this may be confirming the original thesis thesis, Sky has unwittingly and contrary to his intent proved the thing he's trying to disprove. Of course its' only anecdotal and doesn't mean the thesis is proved. Yet, it does mean his argument is ineffective.
- I am not worthy of your love, Christ.
- Why do you love me?
- I'm a sinner.
- Jesus died to save my sins, therefore I deserve to burn in hell.
- I must humble myself before the Lord.
- Pride is a sin.
Some of the things in his list are not negative but they are indicative a low self esteem person. Humbling oneself before God is not negative but to a LSE person humility is equated with humiliation. LSE confuses Pride with high self esteem, and vice verse. He equates being a sinner with negative judgment on self wroth, whereas a high esteem person is capable of understanding that being sinner is not a judgment on one's worth a human being. Every single one of those statements indicate the opposite of what he wants to prove. He thinks they prove that that Christianity is negative and bad for self esteem, they really function like a semantic differential grid as the studies use and he's just proving his own LSE.
How in the world do those kind of messages correlate with positive self-esteem?!
It seems to me that they would do the opposite and make a person who is a TRUE believer [there are fakes among them, of course] think they'r * worthless.
If one starts with LSE in the first place. He's just reading the statements as low esteem would dictate. The low self esteem screws up the logic of the religious doctrine and distorts it. Take one example of the statments above:
Jesus died to save my sins, therefore I deserve to burn in hell.That's not just illogical, it's not Christian doctrine it's antithetical to Christian doctrine, but it's a perfect example of the demonstration of low self esteem given by Piedmont (see 107-109). It's illogical that because Jesus died for me I must deserve to burn in hell. There's a missing step in there: my sins deserve punishment but Jesus loves me, I am not my sins." I am worth dying for since Jesus did die for me, that means Jesus loves me in spite of my sins. But this obvious conclusion is clouded by the LSE to remove the "I am worthy" premises so the connection between God's love and one's unworthy nature is made. This is the very example in the Piedmont book, "how could God love a person like me? I am unworthy of love, therefore, God either doesn't love me or there is no God."
Sky again:
However, this argument, and similar ones [like religion makes people happier then not having one] sound like baseless, bogus, and more manipulative attempts to use emotion and fear to turn people to religion! Afterall, who does not fear unhappiness? It doesn't seem to matter to a lot of religious people whether these claims are true or not... it only matters that they create more sheep [or slaves - whichever you want to call it] for their religion.These claims are backed by hundreds of empirical studies, however, and I have demonstrated that and will soon (hopefully) have a book coming that about those studies. Of course it sounds bad to him he has LSE. All he's really proving is what I suspect that atheism is, at least for a lot of people, the product of LSE and psychological dynamics and unwillingness to do the hard work of re programing they way we years what's beings in the area of self esteem.
I see a lot of immorality and base cruelty in decieving people like this. [Although I don't think the girl was attempting to decieve people, I think she was one of the poor saps that believed the BS spouted from theologian mouths. And I feel sorry for her. - Which is how I tend to feel for a lot of religious people of late, sorry for them.]This is based upon the bad assumptions colored by LSE.
I think non-theism, on the other hand, lifts someone's self-esteem. It gives us an incredible amount of power to control our own destiny and our own lives, it helps us to see through BS [whether it comes from religion or popular culture], and it raises the value of humanity above "god" giving us an incredible sense of self-worth.This is of course an illusion based upon false premises which are in fact lies. Think about it, if LSE is leading one to reason poorly about God's love, so that love become an insult and hate and rejection of the source of love become liberating (because sin nature is now free run riot and is now confused with self esteem) then what's being experience dis not higher self esteem but a combination of temporary gratification of sin and revenge upon a father figure (God) who the skeptic hates for the alleged rejection he imagines to have been wrought upon him by God.
The fact of the matter is empirical studies prove religion = good self esteem and that people stay with their faith because it builds their self esteem. I can offer anecdotal back up for that becasue I was an atheist. I had LSE because idiots always told I was stupid because I had dyslexia. I had a born again experience and then my self esteem was healed I began to love myself for the first time since early childhood. This guy is just bucking the empirical proof because he doesn't like what scinece tells him.
So... with that said... it is clear to me... that this religious jibber-jabber is founded on nothing and sounds supiciously like an outright lie.This little jibber jabber is based upon empirical studies. Notice he doesn't with any studies. Not a one of them. He does confirm what the studies show, the opposite of what he wants to confirm. The thing is this is not all good news for fundies. It may seem like it on the surface but not entirely. It means that the spiritual situation is mixed in with psychological dynamics. That means for the atheist it's not just a matter of "reason" and "logic" and being an atheist doesn't make him supiorior. Form the standpoint of Atheist Watch it proves my point, mocking and ridicule on message boards by atheists agaisnt Christians is probably the result of poor self esteem and their becoming atheists is a psychological problem not a logical truth or any kind of big liberation. For the fundie it means two things, they are failing to spread the gospel because they don't respect self esteem. The fundies do more to destroy self esteem than anyone (I say that having gone to fundie school and I became an atheist become of them). That means part of bringing God's love into the world is about loving people and healing them, it also means the spiritual and the psychological are mixed up together.
One thing I realized since the last installment (self esteem part 1) atheists generally take this topic as major insult. I'm saying "there may be a possibility that your atheism is the result of psychological dynamic" they see it as saying "you are not good!" After discussing with others I realize this is the way LSE works.You understand anything that is not lauding your greatness as an insult. People with LSE can't take any sort of criticism. They equate self esteem with worth. This is why they equate being guilty of sin with being found not worthy of love. That's just the LSE talking. That does not mean we are not worthy of love or that God doesn't love us. I am a person has always been effected by LSE. I had loving parents who cared, they tired to help but due to the dyslexia I always had LSE.
One more caveat, I don't believe in hell. I think the very doctrine of taking hell as a literal place of torment is in itself indicative a bad psychological dynamic, but it's one many of us are stuck with become we were taught to see things that way as kids. I think it gets in the way.
*typos in block quotes are made by atheists. I don't correct spelling for quotes. If I quote a person who misspells a word I quote the misspelling. I know I misspells words a lot that's not the point.
If I am right, there has got to be something more than the physical or 'natural' universe: and something obviously quite different in character-though also essentially related to it, for from this 'something more' the physical universe ultimately derives. If this is established, it is not clear to me that very much of a point is left to atheism, which in the contemporary world surely draws most of its motivation from a desire to tame or naturalize reality-all hope of which is now lost.
I have for a long time now contended that most atheists had low self esteem. I found several sources that asserted it but with no empirical proof. What really got me thinking that was the almost desperate need some of them have to mock and ridicule Christians. It struck me that they were doing that to bolster their own egos. I have now found empirical evidence of this notion. There are several studies that claim to demonstrate that atheists have low self esteem. This is still not proof. There is a long way to go to prove the argument, and I'm sure that its not true of all atheists anyway. These studies are limited in many ways. but there are several of them and they do cover more than one culture. It's a good start on exploring a hypothesis. The main study I am examining here, however, is called "rejection of Christianity and Self Esteem." I will refer to this study as RCSE.
All the studies are done by the same group Emyr Williams, Leslie J Francis, Mandy Robbins
University of Wales, Bangor, UK the major study uses A sample of 279 13- to 16-year-old secondary school pupils in Wales completed the Rejection of Christianity Scale and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. After controlling for sex differences a small but significant correlation was found between the two variables, indicating that low self-esteem is associated with the rejection of Christianity. Leslie J. Francis did three of the IQ studies that show no correlation between religious belief, lack thereof, and intelligence. The last such study he did was in 1996, but he has done three such studies on IQ and religious belief.
The rejection of Christianity scale was constructed by Francis, but not just for this study. The Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventor is standard has been used for a while.The study was done as a smaller piece of a larger picture that consists of several more studies and seeks to understand the relationship between self esteem and religoius belief. The larger picture is an argument that acceptance of Christianity is based upon good self esteem.
From RCSE:
Much of the work that measures religiosity uses items that are specifically designed to determine positive valency. For example, the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (Francis, 1978; Francis & Stubbs, 1987) assesses how positively people feel about God, Jesus, the Bible, prayer and church. Using this instrument, a number of studies have demonstrated a positive association between a positive attitude toward Christianity and a range of positive psychological categories, such as happiness (Francis, Jones, & Wilcox, 2000), general psychological health (Francis, Robbins, Lewis, Quigley, & Wheeler, 2004) and life satisfaction (Lewis, 1998). In particular, several studies have now confirmed the link between a positive attitude toward Christianity and better self-esteem (Jones & Francis, 1996).In other words a fairly large body of work already exists documenting the relationship between acceptance of Christianity and good self esteem. Measurements of things like happiness and self esteem are standard and have long been demonstrated by well validated measurement instruments.
The rejection of Christianity scale:
from RCSE:
By way of contrast, the Rejection of Christianity Scale proposed by Greer and Francis (1992) was designed to assess negative valency. The authors of the measure presented 32 negatively phrased questions to a sample of 875 fourth- and fifth-year secondary school pupils attending ten Catholic and ten Protestant schools in Northern Ireland. The questions that received the lowest item-rest-of-test correlations were rejected, leaving a scale of 20 items generating alpha coefficients of 0.94 for the Protestant sample and 0.90 for the Catholic sample. This scale has been shown to have internal consistency reliability among Northern Irish undergraduate students (Lewis, Maltby, & Hersey, 1999) and Welsh undergraduate students (Robbins, Francis, & Bradford, 2003).
Little research has been done to relationships between this measure and self-esteem. Since previous research has shown that there is a positive correlation between self-esteem and indices of religiosity designed with a positive valency (Jones & Francis, 1996), it is hypothesised that a negative relationship will be found between self-esteem and this measure of religiosity designed with negative valency.
A total of 279 secondary school pupils in Wales from years 9, 10 and 11 completed the 20-item Rejection of Christianity Scale (Greer & Francis, 1992) and the 25-item Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1981). One quarter (25%) were aged 13, one third (32%) were aged 14; 30% were aged 15, and 13% were aged 16. Males comprised 56% of the sample and females 44% of the sample.
The Rejection of Christianity Scale (Greer & Francis, 1992) is a 20-item Likert-type instrument, employing a five-point response scale ranging from 'agree strongly', through 'agree', 'not certain', and 'disagree', to 'disagree strongly'. The scale measures negative valency toward Christianity. This scale is designed so that higher scores indicate a higher tendency to reject Christianity.
The Coopersmith Short-Form Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1981) is a 25-item instrument, employing a dichotomous response scale of 'yes' and 'no'. The possible range of scores for this form of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory is 0-25, with higher scores indicating higher self-esteem.
Both measures achieved satisfactory Cronbach alpha coefficients (Rejection of Christianity Scale, .88; Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, .80). After controlling for sex differences by means of partial correlations, the data demonstrated a small, but significant, correlation (r= -0.14, p <.05) between self-esteem (M = 15.3, SD = 4.9) and rejection of Christianity (M = 62.7, SD = 13.2) indicating that as teenagers' endorsement of negative statements concerning Christianity increases, their scores of negative self-esteem also tend to increase.
The present study has explored the relationship between rejection of Christianity and self-esteem among adolescents in Wales. After controlling for sex differences a small but significant negative(References used by RCSE can be seen in link above).
correlation is found between high-self esteem and rejection of Christianity, as hypothesized. This finding strengthens the conclusions drawn from studies like that of Jones and Francis (1996), which demonstrated a positive correlation between high self-esteem and a positive attitude toward Christianity by demonstrating that the association is not a function of the valency of the measure of religiosity. Evidence of this nature appears to be suggesting that the Christian tradition is supportive of the development of self-esteem among young people rather than detrimental to it.
The major criticism is that this study is not representative. It's only a small sample of Welsh children.
The rejection of Christianity scale has been validated.
fromRCSE :
This scale has been shown to have internal consistency reliability among Northern Irish undergraduate students (Lewis, Maltby, & Hersey, 1999) and Welsh undergraduate students (Robbins, Francis, & Bradford, 2003).
That is to say these are not the same as above, where those were done on secondary students these are done on college (Undergraduate). Although Wales and Ireland are basically the same general culture. The work on self esteem and rejection of Christianity is just getting started. The other pieces of the puzzle in this equation have all been put in place. The rejection of Christianity scale has been validated cross culturally in several studies. The link between positive self esteem and acceptance of Christianity has been validated cross culturally and the attitude toward Christianity scale has been validated cross culturally. Francis scale of attitude toward Christianity has been cross validated in Hong Kong and Belgium.
A second argument used by atheists is that Children are being given negative self images by religion, they are blamed for being gay and other things churches call 'sin' thus they are given their negative self esteem in return they reject religion because it has rejected them. On the face of it that looks like a pretty likely senerio. Through what mechanism does this happen? Is it inherent in all religion or is there a way to avoid it? Ralph Peidmont wrote a book that is part of a multi-volume set called Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, this is Volume 16. He discusses a study by Francis (p105) that establishes a positive correlation between a positive God image and high self esteem. In other words if you teach children that God is good and loves them they will will tend to have higher self esteem than if you teach them a negative, that is critical, fault finding, legalistic, blame oriented view of God.
The Fracis study in Peidmont's book used
...a 735 secondary pupils between 11-18 competed the Coopersmith Self-Esteem inventory and Revised Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and a semantic differential index of God images in order to examine the relationship between God images and self-esteem while controlling for personality factors. The data demonstrates a significant corroboration between positive God images and positive self esteem, after controlling for individual differences in personality. (105)
Peidmont traces the currents of social science research on the top through seven different "strands" of thought which include everything form "religions causes negative self-esteem" to "religion causes postiive self esteem" and all the machinations one can think of based upon variations of those two poles. The problem is none of that research was based upon the kind scientific instruments and controls that Francis uses. Peidmont discusses the work of Spilka and Benson who start from the other end of the spectrum and investigate the assumption that self-esteem shapes the acceptability of God images. Peidmont quotes Benson and Spilka in 1973:
Persons with high levels of self esteem may find it difficult to share the same religious belief. A theology predicated upon a loving accepting God is cognitively compatible with high self esteem, but it could be a source of discomfort for a believer low in self esteem. It does not make good cognitive sense to be loved when one is unlovable. Consequently the latter person can march to a different theology, one that is more consistent with his self image. (Benson and Spilka 209-210).
The implications are intriguing becuase it not only means that people who present a mean legalistic view of God have low self-esteem, not only that atheist's rejection of God is due to their low self esteem but that for those atheists who really rail against God as evil, mean, and vicious, they are really railings against themselves. Whereas it doesn't necessarily follow that we can correct it by teaching people that God is loving. Would they just reject the notion of a loving God because it doesn't fit their sense of self?
Benson and Spilka* did two studies in (73) and (75). the latter done by Spilka, Addison and Rosenshon. Both studies determined self esteem by a modified Coopersmith. They assessed God images by means of semantic differential grid which generated two scales defined as measuring a loving God image and a controlling God image.Self-esteem was negatively related to a wrathful God image. Among female students self esteem was negatively related to a wrathful God image. Although Peidmont shows other studies that didn't find a correlation, Cartier and Goehner (1976) related measures of self-esteem with God images (Peidmont 109).
The significance of this is two fold. If it is true that theological teaching is to blame for self image, or to laud for good self image, it behooves the chruch to seek to teach healing images of God. This may be a huge short coming for which a great deal of theological education deserves blame. It may also be the case that being an atheist, at least for some, has less to do with reason and logic as the atheist try to argue it does, and more to do with hidden psychological motives.
I admit that I am. My emotional response is satisfaction with touches of pleasure that he was killed by Navy SEALS. But should I be? A friend pointed me to Ezk. 18:23, "'Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?' says the Lord God, 'and not that he should turn from his ways and live?'"
While I certainly agree that it would have been better for Bin Laden to turn from his ways and repent, that was highly unlikely. Still, am I wrong to take pleasure in Bin Laden's death? I saw this article by theologian John Piper, showing that there are verses on the other side of the coin, suggesting that God does take satisfaction in the judgment and punishment of the wicked. For example, Deut. 28:63, "And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess."
Here is how Piper puts it together:
My suggestion is that the death and misery of the unrepentant is in and of itself not a pleasure to God. God is not a sadist. He is not malicious or bloodthirsty. The death and suffering considered for itself alone is not his delight.
Rather, when a rebellious, wicked, unbelieving person is judged, what God has pleasure in is the exaltation of truth and righteousness, and the vindication of his own honor and glory.
Whether we should take pleasure in it or not, I do not see a strong argument against President Obama's decision to proceed with the operation and its objective to kill or capture Bin Laden:
But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for [the government] does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.Rom. 13:4.
I attended my first meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of Reasonable Faith. Many thanks to Chris, the Chapter Director, for doing the hard work to start the chapter, preparing for the meeting, and hosting. We discussed what kind of group we were hoping to be a part of, our various backgrounds, and had some energetic discussions about apologetic issues. We wrapped up the evening discussing the issue of "gratuitous suffering" and its role in the argument from evil. It was good to be discussing apologetics again after a very busy time in litigation. I enjoyed the discussion, but the best part was getting to know the guys (no gals yet) at the meeting. Smart guys all.
If you are in the Los Angeles area and are apologetically inclined, check out the link above for contact and meeting information.
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I am just starting to game manage a small land tract in "almost" South Texas. I have about 150 acres of mostly brush and I need to know about how many deer can I expect to feed and keep on this amount of land. The land is not game fenced. I have (4) feeders right now. I am planning on feeding year round.
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How many bucks can 150 acres maintain?
I ask as I am trying to limit the amount of bucks taken off the property in a given year.
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The key to holding deer on your property is to have a safe, undisturbed bedding area and also a large, varied food source. Deer will roam an area that can stretch 2-3 miles but they generally have one main loop (from bedding to food) that you could consider their home. However, if the deer become pressured then they will often move to places they don't regularly travel.
As for deer population that you can hold, with 150 acres you can have plenty of area for more bucks and does then you will ever need. Also, if you have a deer's preferred food source, you are likely (even if they don't bed on your property) to pull deer from surrounding lands or areas.
Limiting the number of bucks that are taken a year will definitely help to establish a large number of bucks, however, you need to set limits on what kind of bucks can be taken. The rule on my farm is no bucks below an 8pt with a 16" inside and 7" pts can be taken. It is best to watch your deer population and see which deer of 2-3 yr old have less than desirable racks and take them out.
I do not care what anyone says IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR DEER IN YOUR AREA, YOU CAN TELL THE AGE!!!! There are ways depending on the coat, neck size, rack size, etc.....you CAN guess a deers age without looking at the teeth, you just need to gauge what your own herd looks like. Even looking at the teeth cannot definitely tell you a deers age because different deer have different wear and tear on their teeth depending on their diet and genetics! The way they say that a deer is old is by looking at deer's teeth of what they think is the same age as another,and they compare what teeth are there and how worn they are...and if you get a very old deer, the experts can't even tell you because the teeth are gone past the point of comparision so even teeth aren't a sure fire way of aging deer...if you can compare the teeth and get a reading, you can tell by comparing the outside appearances as well...my dad is now retired from TWRA and used to score and age deer every sat and sun at a local check station, so its not like I do not know what Im talking about
sorry, that is just my rant.....anyways, you need to cull the bucks that have the weaker genetics. After 2-3 years you will be seeing so many 110-120 class 8 pts they they will start looking like spikes to ya. Let all your young bucks walk...most of those 4s, 6s, and 15" inside 8pts have A LOT of potential so LET THEM WALK....when they reach 2-3 years old and just haven't produced, take them out....
Managing a deer herd can be kinda a bore sometimes because you end up letting so many deer walk you get annoyed, however, after a few years, it starts paying off...you see the value of your work. Its neat to see GOOD bucks walking around everywhere you look. Its still hard to shoot because you know that if there are sooo many 120 class deer, there is probably several 150-180 class deer just waiting to come out.
You need to make sure you take out a decent number of does each year too. If there are too many does, there will be less competition during the rut and those younger, less desirable bucks will be more likely to breed and pass on their genetics.
The first step to any good management program is to supply the right food. Such as clover, alphalfa, chicory, and soybeans. You want high protein and nutrient contents in whatever you plant. Something my dad and I are doing this year is feeding soybean seeds and cotton seeds during the harsher winter months. This helps the deer keep their body weight up (high fat content in cotton seeds) and gives them the nutrients they need (soybean seeds). After the rut is some of the best time to feed the deer because they have been running and expending a lot of their energy for several weeks.
This is just my $.02 but it has worked for my property. Good Luck!
Normally by about 2.5 yrs old a buck will have moved off from his "birthland" because for one his mother doesn't want him and he is then being harrased by the big bucks running him off all the time....
It all depends on how much vegitation you have in your area, a lot of veggies, the more deer/bucks your 150 acres can hold....if you go to the QDMA (Quality Deer Managment Assoc.) they have maps of the U.S. and Texas that go by county and give you a rough estimate on how many deer you have in that area....
Also, I'm sure you know this but taking does is also an excelent management tool...
join the qdma. loads of help there has well as info on co-ops for tracks of land like yours and maybe your neighbors.
There is so much involved and with out fences, 150 acres in Texas will be tough. I would find out what will grow in your area with highest protien quality and plant as much as you can. As far as trying to control the buck quality you won't unless all the surrounding properties do the same. I wish I had 150 acres, but the real truth is its not enough to do all that you want. Give the deer something good to eat/drink and they will stay around your property for the most part. Try to get your neighbors on board to control the does. In PA we know bucks travel well over a mile pre rut, who knows how far during the rut.
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At Aliter Networks, we buy and sell refurbished and new networking equipment from recognized brands like Cisco, Juniper, HP and Dell. Apart from delivering high quality hardware, we add value by offering substantial cost saving, a lifetime warranty and more.
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- Sales of networking equipment to existing and new customers into assigned markets (B2B)
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- Negotiate tailor made offers, including price, payment and delivery terms, prepare quotes and convert them into orders.
- Purchasing is also part of the responsibilities of the Sales Account Manager. Purchase hardware separately or involve a buyback in the sales deal.
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The broken fragments of my life.
This silken white flag flies
As I lay my heart to rest.
Take them, my fingers, and
Pump back into them
The fire of love, the light of day.
My sheets have washed all hues away.
Put my pencil back on this page,
Breath into me, the words by which
My breath was last taken away.
I've breathed too deep, for too long.
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Thomson Cruises' dining offers a less formal atmosphere than most British cruise lines. Offering both a traditional cruise dining rooms and a more relaxed buffet on all their ships throughout the fleet. The larger ships also offer a la carte speciality restaurants to give you more options throughout your cruise.
The cuisine onboard varies from the typically British choices of roast beef or fish and chips, to regional dishes depending on the ship's location — such as moussaka while in Greece or tagine when sailing off the Moroccan coastline.
Casual Dining
The casual dining onboard with Thomson cruises centres around the Lido Restaurant — the Lido Café onboard the Thomson Destiny. The Lido offers passengers 24 hour dining, with buffets to suit the time of day, whether it be breakfast, lunch, dinner or a late night snack. There are usually a two international cuisine themed nights a week, offering a variety of international cuisine. There is also the poolside eaterie, the Terrace Grill — the Pool Deck onboard Thomson Destiny — offering a lunchtime barbeque, pizza, pastas and salads, for an al fresco dining option — perfect for relaxing on a sea day.
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The main dining room offers a more traditional cruise dining experience, serving breakfast, long lunches and six course evening meals. The main dining rooms offer open seating, so you can dine at your desire — except onboard Thomson Destiny, where traditional set dining times are used during evening service in the Seven Seas restaurant. The main dining room also plays host to the Gala dinner on the weekly Captain's Cocktail Party evening.
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Onboard Thomson Dream, Thomson Celebration and Thomson Spirit there is an additional speciality restaurant available for a small cover charge. These popular venues include Mistral's Restaurant, a stylish a la carte venue onboard Thomson Celebration, Sirocco's Restaurant, an intimate offering onboard Thomson Spirit and The Grill, a surf'n'turf-styled steakhouse onboard Thomson Dream.
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Board Meeting: Domestic Goddi
This article is from 2010.
These three ladies have been garnering quite a reputation for themselves...no, no not like that...they're funny. A funny reputation. Oh shut up and look what a neat cake they drew. In case you can't read it, they also wrote 'obesity rules' on the side. We totally agree.
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To see so many glaciers all in the same place is awesome! It is hard to get your mind around the age of these wonders. Beautiful, amazing, awe-inspiring, reflective!
While the day started a little rainy, it cleared enough for our trip through College Fjord. One glacier after another - it was amazing. The Star Princess captain "parked" us right in front of Harvard glacier and we enjoyed a 30-min spectacle of calving and its beauty. Definitely a must-see for anyone heading to AK.
While on a Princess cruise, our ship was one of the few permitted through this remarkable area. The glaciers were truly an amazing sight!
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Where do you get the best deal on book purchases? Is it on the high street or are online booksellers your best bet? We did a snapshot test to find out.
The books
We went shopping for the winner of the Man Booker prize, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton, £16.99), plus the current best selling fiction and non-fiction paperbacks and hardbacks.
According to Neilsen BookScan, for the week ending September 30 2006, the best-selling paperback non-fiction was A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown (Bantam, £6.99) while Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook by Jamie Oliver (M Joseph, £26) tops the hardback table. The top paperback fiction was Thud! by Terry Pratchett (Corgi, £6.99) while The Mission Song by John Le Carre (Hodder, £17.99) tops the hardback table.
We found a huge price variation for the five titles so it is well worth shopping around if you buy books regularly and/or in quantity. We found Jamie Oliver's book on sale at prices ranging from £13 (Amazon) to £26 (Blackwell). In general, both amazon.com and tesco.com stand out as the cheapest, although you have to add postage and packing charges.
High street store savings turned out to be not as bad as you might expect, especially for the Man Booker winner, though in general they still lagged behind the online stores. Poorest value for the Booker prize winner was Foyles, where there was no discount off the recommended retail price, yet at WH Smith it could be found for £8.49. For the four best-selling titles, all five stores sold A Piece of Cake at the RRP of £6.99.
Other best deals were: £4.99 at Foyles for Thud!; £16 at WH Smith for Jamie Oliver's latest; and £8.99 at WH Smith for The Mission Song. WH Smith generally had the best deals in-store, and although their range was more limited than other bookstores, many of their bestseller prices beat other high street stores, and in some cases online prices elsewhere.
For those who prefer the personal touch and don't mind paying a bit more, both Foyles and Borders in Charing Cross Road, London, are selling signed copies of Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland - another title on the Man Booker shortlist - and The Mission Song.
Several online booksellers offer free p&p if you spend more than £15 or £20 so it's rarely a factor if you are buying several titles at once. But, unless you are buying from dvd.co.uk, foyles.co.uk or play.com, none of which charge for postage, you need to think twice if purchasing just one book from a vendor who will charge you, say, £2.50 p&p on top of the cheap cover price.


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Students read the number above each ten frame and use markers or fill in the correct number using a ten frame. CC: K.CC.B.4
Students find odd and even numbers and follow coloring directions. A fun activity for Thanksgiving.
Practice writing words and numbers 0-10. Dotted with three-ruled-lines. Cute pencil to color.
This penguin theme unit is a great way to practice counting and adding to ten. This 16 page unit includes, tracing numbers 1-10, counting in order, finding patterns, ten frame activity, in and out boxes and much more! CC: Math: K.CC.B.4


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At Drs. Irwin, Kimble, Long and Pippin our success depends on how healthy our patients feel and how confident they feel about their appearance. It is our job to help our patients realize and maintain a healthy well being. Specializing in the treatment of conditions that affect the ear, nose, throat, and facial features, we continuously strive for excellence by providing comprehensive and compassionate care to every patient, every day. In addition to our ear, nose and throat care, we offer surgical excellence in the fields of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery.
Dr. Anne Long joined Drs. Irwin & Kimble, APMC in August 2006 and practices general otolaryngology. She sees adult and pediatric patients. Her interests include pediatric otolaryngology and head and neck skin cancer.
We are proud to be the premier providers for Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery in the Greater New Orleans area. We are the premier office for the diagnosis, treatment and repair of head and neck conditions including ear infections, hearing loss, snoring, nasal obstruction, sinusitis, tonsillitis, sleep apnea, voice disorders, neck or throat cancer, and cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.
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Brazilian me!
As soon as i stepped foot off the plane, catching my breath on the tarmac and breathing in. The heat just hit me. Wow i thought. The suns rays felt good after twelve hours cooped up next to a elderly couple. The old guy had snored soon after take off, and his wife kept shouting at the stewardess every five minutes. Deaf as a post, and i don't think she even realised as she proceeded to tell me tales from her youth. I tried to doze off, but every time I closed my eyes all I could see was the adventure that was awaiting me.
The mountains, valleys ancient relics, the people called carioca's
and finally the clear blue waters at the end of my trip. But here I was just starting out, on a trip of a life time, four weeks on my own doing my own thing. seeing were the wind takes me, new places to see and new people to meet. The excitement had been building up for months, ever since my tickets had landed on the mat by the front door.
My friends had thought I was crazy, south America on my own. what was I thinking? As no-one would or could come with me, so i had no choice I had to go it alone.
And now here I am in standing in the bustling, dirty shack of an airport in Rio Di Janeiro. Going through customs, aware of all the cultural differences, smells, sights as i make my way outside to feel the heat hit me again.
The cultural capital of brazil, were exotic is the word. I feel like screaming out, ' I'm here' to for everyone to hear. Not that they'd hear me here. The traffic unbelievable. I get out my Portuguese phrase book. in the back I had written the name and address of a backpackers hostel. A good place to start as any, to meet new people i thought.
I make my way up, to the parked buses. The taxis all parked up by the side, the drivers smoking and chatting avidly outside their vehicles, old V.w's and Chevrolets, brightly coloured and very battered.
I find a bus with 'CENTRO" on the front, a classic 40's style affair. Ha ha I laugh to myself. Trying my hardest to look like I do this every day. As if I had stepped off a plane on far off soils almost every day on my own. Experience traveller alone I was not, but still the excitement over took any worries I had had.


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This is the newest mechanical mod by Mad Industries. The FMJ by MAD Industries will revolutionize the authentic mechanical mod industry. The FMJ authentic mechanical mod comes with its own RDA housing which will fit 99% of the of all the RDAs on the market. The RDA housing comes with a 1/2 inch wide bore drip tip and O-rings. The design of the RDA housing allows you to use your RDA base & atomizer without having to worry about the O-rings . The housing fits over your RDA and has its own O-rings. It has its own 1/2 inch bore tip that is one piece with the housing and it comes with MAD Industries originally designed concave button so that no locking mechanism is needed.


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If You Only Knew
I can't get him out of my mind- even after a bad rejection. Oh, well, he deserves to know how I feel.
You can see it in my eyes
What you still do to me
It's crazy and sychotic
You still seem to be my weakness
Not sure why I still feel this way
No, I can't explain it
But if you only knew
What goes through my mind
When I watch you walk away
Then maybe you could understand
Over and over again
It plays in my head
Like a song on repeat
I swear you could still love me
But I know it's not true
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|This battle honour was awarded for participation in the operations around the Belhamed area, east of Ed Dude, near the Tobruk perimeter. Attacking from within the Tobruk perimeter, the 2/13th Infantry Battalion supported the push that secured Ed Dude and tried to link up with New Zealand troops trying to break through to Tobruk from Sidi Rezegh.
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