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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. Read more . . .
Why do Americans still dislike atheists?
On basic questions of morality and human decency — issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious . . . They tend to raise their children to solve problems rationally, to make up their own minds when it comes to existential questions and to obey the golden rule. They are more likely to practice safe sex than the strongly religious are, and are less likely to be nationalistic or ethnocentric. They value freedom of thought. Read more . . .
Richard Dawkins, “Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a Fact”
There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office . . . In today’s Republican Party ‘in spite of’ is not the phrase we need. Ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory. Intellect, knowledge and linguistic mastery are mistrusted by Republican voters, who, when choosing a president, would apparently prefer someone like themselves over someone actually qualified for the job. Read more . . .
Republican Congressman Joe Walsh: Quit Lying
Catholics Pin Hopes on Dead Pope’s Blood to Stem Gang Crime in Mexico
CATHOLICS have some pretty cock-eyed ideas, especially in regard to the bits and pieces of departed “holy” characters. These, they believe, possess “miraculous” properties . . . a vial containing the late pope John Paul II’s blood will soon be winging its way to Mexico in a bid to help bring down crimes rates in the largely Catholic country.
GOP Elite: 2012 Field is Hopeless
Conservative intellectuals don’t have a candidate in the 2012 GOP primary, and they’re making their worry more and more public. “To many conservative elites, Rick Perry is a dope, Michele Bachmann is a joke, and Mitt Romney is a fraud.”
With Charity For Some?: Illinois Court Rejects Catholic Agency’s ‘Right’ To Discriminate With Public Funds
This became a particularly heated issue back in June when Illinois granted same-sex couples the right to form civil unions and, therefore, the right to jointly adopt. The Catholic hierarchy didn’t like the new law, and several Illinois dioceses threatened to stop providing adoption services if they had comply with it. State officials didn’t seem to mind, though. They simply informed Catholic Charities that the agency’s contract to provide foster care and adoption services would not be renewed.
Rick Perry: Economic Crisis Is God’s Way Of Bringing Us Back To Biblical Principles
Rampant Denial About the Threat Posed By Christian Dominionists, Perry and Bachmann
Dominionism, an academic term for a strain of evangelical Christianity that mandates believers to take over the institutions of society in order to implement God’s law on earth, flows from the theology of Christian Reconstructionism, whose proponents see as their ultimate goal the reconstitution of biblical law as the law of the land.
Always Question Authority 