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The Idol Of Our Age by Daniel J. Mahoney — Reviewed
The idol of the age is us. We, having to worship something, worship ourselves. The idea of good and evil for each of us must come from somewhere. It cannot…
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Antichrist, by Saint Robert Bellarmine, Reviewed
Some establishment media is still based: you can find good stuff if you know where to look. Like in the PI. Take this op-ed in the Manila Times, by one…
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The Magician and the Cardsharp — by Karl Johnson
This post, which could use some better writing, originally ran on 5 June 2009. But it's a lot of fun. The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest…
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Something Strange With New Book About Perversion Prone Priests by Frederic Martel
The giggly James Martin-wing of the Church is swooning over the new book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frederic Martel. Weepy articles are everywhere about…
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Despite What You Heard, The Death Penalty Is Legitimate. Feser and Bessette’s “By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment”
Because, very oddly, there has been a changing of the catechism from the constant and ancient teaching ("the pope is distracting the world with fresh meat for the spirit of…
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Trading Places: Aleksandr Dugin’s Putin vs Putin — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
I used to subscribed to The Jerusalem Post. Then I realized that I could get the real news a lot quicker by buying subscriptions to the NY Times and the…
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Chapter 1 Excerpt from Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics
Buy the book! Necessary & Conditional Truth Given "x,y,z are natural numbers and x>y and y>z" the proposition "x>z" is true (I am assuming logical knowledge here, which I don't…
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Atheists Will Have No Excuse
There is a class of the argument of God's existence that depend entirely on your thoughts. The one that interests us is Joseph de Maistre's "no excuse" argument. It is…