Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The sad case of British teenager Lydia Playfoot's fight to wear a chastity ring at her school is just one more sign that secularists are taking aim primarily at Christianity. In this case, they are going for the issue that is most important to them: chastity vs. unrestricted sexual activity. Start by stating the obvious: …
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John Ashcroft's resistance to the wiretapping program put forth by the White House is a classically Pentecostal way of approaching a problem: strictly by the book, no matter how unhappy it makes people. Pentecostal churches are best known for exuberant worship, but are have been traditional centres for very strict legalism. Ashcroft's Assemblies of God …
A little while back, the following was noted in the piece The Trouble with Americans Negotiating: Basically, Americans look at negotiating with Iran, Syria or anyone else the same way they do business deals: the negotiators go in, they apply whatever skills they have at “doing the deal,” but they get the deal done. Failing …
I have a few answers of my own to Liam's response to my last piece on the subject of gay marriage and adoption. I have, thus far, understood Don to be advocating that homosexuals be excluded from marriages recognized by the state (i.e., civil marriages.) If that is not the case, then my efforts have …
Liam's response to my question is interesting: Much as in religious marriage, it is absolutely forbidden by law to engage in a civil marriage unless the parties involved genuinely and demonstrably love each other... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just kidding. The truth is that, much as in religious marriage, the answer to that question depends upon who is …
Earlier this week I responded to some email satire about gay marriage, adoption and other related issues. Sure enough, I got an email answer, but, in a sign of progress, now same answer is posted on his blog. Now that this debate can be pursued on a blog-to-blog basis, in reading Liam's response there one …
Ruby Payne's work on effectively interfacing with and helping students from the lower income levels has brought the expected howls of indignation from her colleagues. But the truth is that this is the absolutely most explosive issue in the U.S. today, which is why no one wants to discuss it. Let's look at this from …
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For a long time historians have unfolded their narratives without worrying about setting up a chronological punctuation, without the need of pausing at a major stopping point. When the concept of medaevalism was imposed on general consciousness--it has only been a century--the dogma of evolution, of the continual and slow transformation of nature and of …
Back in the fall, I received an email from one of our visitors challenging my article Gay Marriage: What Marriage? and especially my statement that "it can be shown that the optimum home for children is one where there is a father and a mother." I referred him to a number of places on this …
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The whole Sojourners' discussion with Clinton, Obama and Edwards is a exercise in wishful thinking by both the Sojourners and the Democratic candidates. It's no secret that the Democrats' own base is very secular. It's also no secret that the Republicans' base tends to be religious. So the trick for these candidates is to sound …
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