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Mao Luther King?
I don’t like the look or feel of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. For one, he looks fat, and he wasn’t particularly fat. And there’s something weirdly Maoist about it—a throwback to 20th century communist … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, China, civil liberties, civil rights, freedom, Mao, Maoism, Martin Luther King, sculpture, Thomas Jefferson
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Let Freedom Sing: Feminism Under Fire in Israel
The intellectual and cultural rot of religious fundamentalism continues its 21st century spread. This is in Haaretz today: Secular and religious cabinet members engaged in a heated discussion over the issue of women’s rights in Israel on Sunday, forcing Prime … Continue reading
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Tagged equality, feminism, freedom, fundamentalism, gay rights, Israel, Judaism, Martin Luther King, orthodoxy, women's rights
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Dearborn Free Speech Watch: ACLU Supports Pastor Terry Jones’s Right to Free Speech Outside of an Islamic Center
Great news! The ACLU filed a friend of the court brief in favor of Pastor Terry Jones’s right to speak outside of an Islamic Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The following was in the Detroit News on Friday: The ACLU’s brief … Continue reading
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Tagged America, feminism, free speech, freedom, human rights, Islam, Martin Luther King, muhammad, Muslims, terry jones, the first amendment, Thomas Jefferson
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The Two Confidences of Atheism vs. The Four Confidences of Theism
When it comes right down to it, what are atheists confident about and what are theists confident about? It occurs to me that, to be an atheist, your life ultimately rests on just two rather naked confidences: God does not … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, confidence, courage, death, God, life, love, Martin Luther King, Oedipus, theism
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What Is The Universe? And What Should We Be Doing In It?
My guess is that the universe may be the mind of God calculating—then presenting the sums, before the witness of consciousness, in four dimensions (height, width, depth, and time). The universe, as it were, is the ones and zeroes made flesh; God’s search … Continue reading
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Tagged Dionysus, gandhi, love, Martin Luther King, math, physics, the mind of god, the universe, Tolstoy, wine
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A Reading of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!”
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Tagged 1860s, Abraham Lincoln, jfk, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, poems, poetry, Robert Kennedy, Walt Whitman
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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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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Story of German Senior Officer, Albert Battel
In one segment of the PBS DVD, Auschwitz, is the story of Albert Battel, a German senior officer who took great risks to protect Jews (in the Polish city of Przemysl) from deportation and the death camps: At the German … Continue reading
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Tagged albert battel, gandhi, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Politics, religion
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