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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Why I Predict Rick Santorum Will Be the Republican Nominee
Demographics. They’re working against white conservatives, and it’s making them ornery. Thanks to demographics, Jonathan Chait at New York magazine explains the fight or stand-down existential dilemma facing Republicans going forward: [T]he psychology of decline does not always operate in … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, demographics, God, GOP, Jesus, mitt romney, Republicans, rick santorum, rush limbaugh
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Blessed are the Ignorant: Rick Santorum Adds a Beatitude to the Sermon on the Mount
“Blessed are ye who lack degrees, for such is the Party of God.” And they applauded. What manner of man is this? _____ “But woe unto those that are educated, for they art snobs.” Here’s a transcript of Rick Santorum’s exact … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, college, education, Harvard, Jesus, rick santorum, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sermon on the Mount, snobs, UCLA, university
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Can You Have Your Lent and Capitalism Too?
This past week, have you been indulging or denying yourself? The warring sides of human existence—the selfishly sensual and the altruistic—are brutally depicted in the below painting by Pieter Bruegal titled, “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” (1559). At left … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, capitalism, Catholicism, charity, Christianity, consumerism, God, Jesus, lent, love, selfishness
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Creation Through Evolution?
Maybe the universe is an ongoing creation, and this is how the Creator is doing it, moving us, through a process of evolution, to some end product we can only half-imagine now. _____ Then again, maybe we live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, biology, cosmos, creation, Darwin, evolution, Genesis, God, speculation, yoga
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“I Don’t Consent To Searches”: Calm Constitutional Pushback To The Security State
One step toward not being a sheep.
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Tagged America, Constitution, freedom, law, police, security
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Twitter Blasphemy Watch: 26,000 Now Call for Death of Hamza Kashgari
As of this morning, over 26,000 Facebookers are calling for the death of poet and feminist Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The number has been steadily climbing over the past week. If you find this as distressing as … Continue reading
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Tagged Allah, freedom of speech, hamza kashgari, human rights, Islam, Mohammad, muhammad, Muslims, Saudi Arabia, twitter, twitter blasphemy
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Atheism and Free Will: The End of Praise and Shame?
If you’re an atheist and have concluded that free will doesn’t exist, where does that leave praise and shame? Atheist Jerry Coyne, who does not believe humans have free will, suggests that it leaves praise and shame in the dust: … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, b.f. skinner, critical thinking, determinism, free will, God, jerry coyne, language, philosophy, rhetoric
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Shunned Andrew Watch: Mars Hill Cult Excommunicates Member Who Wouldn’t Write Out His Sexual History
The sheer fanatic creepiness of this is worthy of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The following appeared yesterday at the Christianity Today website: Over the last month, several blogs have discussed the case of Andrew, a member of Mars Hill Church’s Ballard, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Miller, atheism, atheist, Dick Cheney, hell, Jesus, lucy in the sky with diamonds, marc driscoll, mars hill, nathaniel hawthorne, sex, the scarlet letter
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A Powerful Plea for Gay Marriage from a Republican
Maureen Walsh (R), 16th District, Walla Walla, Washington:
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Tagged civil rights, equality, gay equality, gay marriage, homosexuality, human rights, Jesus, rush limbaugh, women's rights
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Rick Santorum: Cafeteria Catholic Without a Condom
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum makes quite a show of his submission to Catholic teaching and his absolute adherence to what I would call Pope Benedict’s Semen Principle. The Semen Principle is the following: Semen must go nowhere but in a … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, atheist, birth control, Catholic, Catholicism, contraception, Jesus, planned parenthood, rick santorum, rush limbaugh, women's health, women's rights
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Gray on Pink(er): Because of Our Evolution, the Irrational We’ll Always Have With Us
John Gray thinks Steven Pinker’s thesis in his new book—in which Pinker argues that the world is progressing toward an ever less violent future—is deluded. In the Jacob-wrestle between Enlightenment rationality and our evolution-formed imperatives, Gray is betting that our … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, evolution, John Gray, optimism, pessimism, progress, reason, steven pinker, the Enlightenment
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Appearances vs. Reality
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Tagged 20-something, America, appearances, Darwin, evolutionary psychology, living at home, narcissism, reality, truth
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Twitter Blasphemy: 18,000 Facebookers Call for the Death of Feminist Hamza Kashgari for Insulting the Prophet Muhammad
As of this morning, 18,000 is the number of Facebookers calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The number was 8,000 on Thursday, 13,000 on Friday, and 16,000 on Saturday. Does anyone know … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, facebook, feminism, free speech, freedom of speech, hamza kashgari, Islam, liberty, mark twain, muhammad, Muslims, Voltaire, women's rights
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Twitter Blasphemy: 16,000 Facebookers Agree That Hamza Kashgari Should Be Executed for Insulting the Prophet
The number of people who have joined a Facebook page calling for the death of Hamza Kashgari for Twitter blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad has climbed from 8,000 on Thursday to 16,000 this morning (I just checked the page). Yesterday, … Continue reading
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Tagged blasphemy, censorship, free speech, hamza kashgari, human rights, Islam, john stuart mill, liberty, muhammad, twitter
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