Barack Obama, Alvin Plantinga, and The Heart of American Darkness

Philosopher Jerry Walls has this brief must read message for us.  I've reposted it below.

It is not often when I’m reading a tome of analytic philosophy that I am stopped in my tracks by a passage that reads like a penetrating diagnosis of what’s wrong with contemporary America. But that happened recently, and I have not been able to get the passage out of my head. The passage appears in Alvin Plantinga’s 500+ page volume Warranted Christian Belief in a chapter where he is discussing how sin distorts our ability to see the truth.

Is-Ought Problem and Truth and Normativity

For anyone interested, we are currently discussing whether an "ought" can be validly derived from "factual" (non-normative) premises over at the Maverick Philosopher's blog:

Truth and Normativity

Three more putative instances of valid is-ought inferences