“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise. To take action against the headwinds of the status quo is to be a pioneer. The troika of… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence should be our best advisor to inform our Beliefs. The companion… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the idea of eternal life in a general context, it may come as a surprise that the Bible does not specifically indicate that the human soul is immortal. The postulation that we have an immortal soul is an extrapolation… — Brian Goedken Copy Share
“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence is the best advisor to inform our beliefs. The companion enterprise… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“We also have to be particularly wary of imaginative thought processes for we can very easily create things and ideas in our minds that are outright impossible or highly improbable to be manifested in the world-universe which we then deceive ourselves into thinking that they are either certain or probable likelihoods. We often take several different pieces of information or… — Brian Goedken Copy Share
“Nowhere in the definition of Religion is there a mandate for religions to self-challenge or revamp their theological positions based on new enlightenment. Rather,… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as it will… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“When we look at the frailties of the human mind and the apparent disinterest by the multitude to do the very hard work of… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two oppositional elements.… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore or less… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise. To take… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in the same… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
