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Status Of Christianity (And Pizza Parlours)
On this day of ultimate sacrifice it's well to ponder the state of our ancient religion. We'll come to no firm conclusions---not in 750 words---but we have to start somewhere.…
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Global Warming Hypocrisy: Or, Science Is Politics
Lefties take money, too In an interview with far-left New York Times, activist and part-time scientist Michael Oppenheimer says "nothing follows" from his taking moola from the EDF (Environmental Defense…
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Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act & The End Of Democracy
Many people sincerely believe Indiana's RFRA new law will allow private individuals to "discriminate" against those who suffer from same-sex attraction. This shows two things: that propaganda works, and that…
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The Falls-Disproportionately-On-The-Poor Fallacy
Still on the road; something quick. Like the good Bishop said, and said well, "If we ignore the poor, we will go to hell: literally." The poor figure in two…
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Bill Nye The Science Guy Confuses Scientific Uncertainty Versus Doubt
On the road, so something quick. Reader Paul Mullen writes: Briggs, A fellow at the salt mine was thoughtful enough to leave a copy in the break room of April's…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Intelligent
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Saint Wiki…
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This Week In Doom (Indiana’s RFRA Too!)
Theme We've tried various ways of doing this over the years, but none successfully. So I'm going to steal an idea from Nick Steves and give the weekend collection of…
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Probability’s Empirical Bias
Bit of logic (a favorite example) from our teacher Lewis Carroll: given "All cats understand French and that some chickens are cats", what can we say about the proposition "Some…