Apologia is the Latin noun for “apology/defense/justification/explanation.”
I have named this blog after the noun to describe what I intend to do here: justify and explain what I believe.
Be clear: I will not defend my “faith” as in Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Islam, ect. I naturally detour away from many beliefs of all these religions.
I have created this blog, ironically, as a self-serving endeavor. As I’ve traveled through my college career and been exposed to different ideas and viewpoints, I’ve become a bit of a relativist. But two weeks ago I read a chapter written by C.S. Lewis in which he spoke of the Law of Nature. This didn’t refer to gravity, ect.; but rather to something built within each of us that dictates what is moral and what is not moral (his argument is much more than this – I don’t do it justice). This renewed a desire within me to discover the Law of Nature.
Posts will occur every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
I hope that you recognize I am not ignorant to other viewpoints. Very often I feel compelled to side with another viewpoint on the basis of pathos alone, but the very nature of “sides” states that you can only be on one side. And so I must pick one and justify it. This is my mission. Please, don’t consider me an intolerant bastard. I don’t write to piss people off. I write to justify my beliefs to none other than myself.
I can be reached at colbystream@gmail.com
