Showing posts with label religious precept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious precept. Show all posts
Friday, April 29, 2016

Why other pols loathe Cruz

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I loved this article from the headline all the way through. It explains the very simple ways that Ted Cruz pretends he's a hero, when h...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Catching up: Pope says Jews are saved

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I almost missed this. Jews are not damned to hell for not accepting Jesus, according to the Vatican . Not only are Jews not damned (despite ...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Short: The danger of a president with weird ideas

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What would President Carson be like? Let's speculate... We might have weekly inanities about immorality, wickedness, Satan tempting pe...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Difficult choice of conscience

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We've had pizza shop owners, with video running, say that they wouldn't cater a same-sex wedding because they're Christians. I h...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Hegemonic sore losers

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I think Christianity used to have quite a lock on most of the world, even if they didn't have a plurality of the population by religion...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Finally, my conclusion. Marriage equality, yes. Conscience, yes.

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I've wrestled with the issue of good religious people and their objection to same-sex marriage. Long ago I saw the essential equality of...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Burn them out

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I've been thinking lately that the fighting in the Middle East seems different in a vague way. A key here is the vagueness, If I can fig...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Creating his own religion

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I'm reading the long set of responses to a question posted by Rod Dreher , an orthodox Christian. He wants to know how people have lost ...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Death to the most hated fool in America

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We needn't cry over the demise of Fred Phelps, the inventor of picketing the funerals of those who have died most tragically. His Westbo...
Friday, March 14, 2014

The delicious irony of Christians in the closet

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I absolutely hate when bloggers send volleys back and forth, but this one may be worth following, if only in hopes of seeing a few well-plac...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Denying Contraceptive Coverage is Slut-Shaming

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First, I'm sorry that this topic is getting so many posts, but there is a good reason. This is one of the few issues where it's poss...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

The GOP in their contraceptive corner

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OK folks, I hope this is the last thing I'll say about the GOP and contraceptives. These guys have really been idiots about contraceptio...
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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Last outpost of crazy: Conversative haters of Mandela

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Goddamn communist, pinko, terrorist murderer Nelson Mandela. Also destroyer of South Africa. That's Nelson Mandela according to some  ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Sincerely against same-sex marriage

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I've been lucky to have had diversity in friends during my life. And by 'friends,' I don't mean casual acquaintances of a fe...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Catholic Mistake

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Although I'm an agnostic, I'm fairly supportive of religion. I appreciate the sense of a higher mission and the way it inspires so m...
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