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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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Kansas City Bishop Robert W. Finn Knew of the Child Pornography Photographs Taken by Father Shawn Ratigan
Father Robert W. Finn is bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph archdiocese. He is also, according to today’s New York Times, an outspoken theological conservative. And he’s a protector of at least one child abuser. That child abuser’s name is Father Shawn Ratigan. Here’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholicism, church and state, God, Jesus, law, pedophiles, priests, religion, robert finn, Voltaire
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Proposal Fail
This guy is clearly not a lawyer (as in “Never ask a question that you don’t already know what the answer will be”).
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Tagged existentialism, free will, humiliation, law, lawyers, life, marriage, rejection, rings, risk
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Mental Health Break
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Richard Rorty on Making Ethical Choices in a Godless Universe
I think that Richard Rorty is right about this, but it’s a bit jarring to read it stated so directly and matter-of-factly. The quote comes from Rorty’s essay, “Kant vs. Dewey” (in the last collection of his papers, Philosophy as Cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, ethics, God, law, Moses, nihilism, philosophy, richard rorty, ten commandments
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Alien Abductions, Epistemology, and Eyewitness Testimony
If you believe in, say, the resurrection of Jesus or the historic existence of Cleopatra based on eyewitness testimony, why don’t you believe what these apparently sincere folks are saying as well? What makes some forms of eyewitness testimony more credible … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, belief, Christianity, epistemology, eyewitness testimony, God, Jesus, law, psychology, the resurrection, witnessing
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Blogging UFOs: The UFO Hypothesis (and Tom Cruise) on Trial
These past few weeks, as I’ve thought about UFOs as a phenomenon, I’ve found myself confused, going back and forth between the value of testimony v. the value of expert scientific opinion, and then it occurred to me: Juries frequently encounter the exact same dilemma. In … Continue reading
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Unjust State Laws Directed Towards a Faith-Based Minority: Atheists
Pete Soderman, at his blog, calls attention to numerous unjust state laws on the books that discriminate against atheists. Here’s one from North Carolina: Sec. 8. Disqualifications of office. The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Christianity, free speech, James Dobson, law, maryland, North Carolina, religion, religious discrimination, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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Quote for the Day
G.K. Chesterton: The madman is not someone who has lost his reason. The madman is someone who has lost everything except his reason.
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Philosopher David Sosa on Free Will v. Determinism
As portrayed in the critically acclaimed documentary, Waking Life:
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jurist?
Dramatist Bryony Lavery has a new play running in London this month. New Stateman interviewed her, and asked her about her creative process: Lavery’s latest play, staged at the Young Vic, is based on the horrific sinking of the Russian … Continue reading
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State of New Mexico Tells a Religious Photographer: You Have to Take Pictures at a Gay Commitment Ceremony!
I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I think that the below story is an outrageous violation, by authorities in New Mexico, of conscientious religious objection. According to the Associated Press this weekend: A professional photographer who refused … Continue reading
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Tagged civil rights, conscientious objection, freedom of speech, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, Henry David Thoreau, law, lesbian, Martin Luther King, religion
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Christopher Hitchens on Bishop Rowan Williams
I didn’t know this about Anglican Bishop Rowan Williams, but Christopher Hitchens asserts that Williams believes (presumably in the name of multiculturalism) that Islamic law should supersede, for British Muslims, the courts in England. If so, anything I’ve ever said … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 