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Monday, August 2, 2010

Anne Rice Abjures the Faith

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David Goldman at First Things Blog informs us that author Anne Rice has renounced, sort of, her Christianity. On Wednesday she posted this ...

Sliding Toward Nihilism

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The Edge Foundation held a symposium recently in which a collection of naturalistic scientists and philosophers discussed the topic of mora...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Against the Wind

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Two years ago we featured a post about David Mamet, the highly acclaimed playwright ( American Buffalo (1975), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)...

Free Speech For Me, Not Thee

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I was reminded recently of the book by civil libertarian Nat Hentoff titled Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee . The occasion for this reco...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Understanding the Suicide Bomber

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There's an interesting article at Strategy Page on some of what the Israelis have learned about suicide bombers over the years. We lear...

Reaching the A Students

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Pete Spiliakos at No Left Turns offers some thoughts on a problem that has concerned me for a number of years - how to reach our brightest ...

Crash

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A number of readers have expressed concern that Viewpoint hasn't been updated for the last three days. The reason for this apparent dere...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Not Going Along for the Ride

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Andy McCarthy at NRO declines to jump on the bandwagon of folks proclaiming Shirley Sherrod to be a "wonderful person" who was ma...

Fundamentalist Narcissism

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Elizabeth Scalia writes that while liberals wring their hands at the prospect of Christian fundamentalists establishing a theocracy or, via...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Why So Much Anger?

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Many average Americans are perplexed by the political discontent they see and hear among their neighbors and are asking questions like: Why ...

TT

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From July 12 through the 22nd I visited the tropical islands of Trinidad and Tobago, just off the coast of Venezuela. During my trip Bill po...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Offensive

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Imagine that Japanese Americans in the early 1950s decided to build a shrine right next to the American military base at Pearl Harbor in hon...

Debunking Christianity (Pt. II)

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This post continues some thoughts, begun yesterday , on John Loftus' arguments against theism in general and Christian belief in particu...

Letting the Days Go By

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Pretty funny: Thanks to Hot Air . RLC
Thursday, July 22, 2010

What's Going On?

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The Saudis have apparently given Israel permission to use bases on their soil for an attack on Iran. The U.S. has moved a war fleet into ...

Debunking Christianity

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John Loftus is an interesting fellow. He holds several degrees in philosophy of religion including a ThM from Trinity Evangelical Divinity S...

Biggest Failing

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Joe Carter at First Things argues that American sex education is not education at all: Unless the middle school in Shenandoah, Iowa, is t...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Agnostic Manifesto

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First we had the New Atheism. Now Ron Rosenbaum at Slate is calling for a New Agnosticism. There are a couple or three things to say about ...

Free Will and Murder

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Victor Reppert, author of C.S. Lewis' Dangerous Idea and keeper of a blog called Dangerous Idea links to a paper that tackles the deba...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Five Books

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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is being touted as a potential GOP presidential candidate. In this piece we get a pretty good glimpse of Dan...