Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXX
Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and his defense of atheism in chapter 17. Last time, I looked at how Hitchens deftly attempted to shift the blame for the secular evils of the twentieth century onto religion effectively arguing that Christians are […]
Read More..>>Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXVII
Listen to the MP3 Chapter sixteen of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” deals with a question, one now routinely raised by the neo-atheists, of whether religion is child abuse. Hitchens starts with, “the imponderably large question. How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by […]
Read More..>>Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXIV
Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and the question of whether religion makes people behave. The core of his argument seems to be that religious people do at time behave very badly, while some noted atheists have behave quite nicely. Therefore religion […]
Read More..>>The Bill of Rights – The Liberal Version
Amendment I There shall be a separation of Church and State; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; abridging the freedom of speech, except for political speech near an election, or of the press, except talk radio; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, […]
Read More..>>Roe, The Sequel
Interesting editorial in the Wall Street Journal this morning. Unfortunately it is not on their free site. Basically is points out that Antonin Scalia’s predictions in both the Lawrence decision (that the Sodomy decision would lead to same sex marriage) and more importantly in Planned Parenthood v. Casey on abortion were correct. As Scalia wrote […]
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