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Insanity & Doom Update XX
Item The Beatles: Has evolutionary biology proved the Fab Four's early work wasn't 'musically important'? "I think that our estimation of the Beatles' importance at that time, or how we…
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Insanity & Doom Update XII
Item Is Homosexual Practice No Worse Than Any Other Sin? Why, then, do so many insist on an 'egalitarian view of sin'? There may be several reasons working together. First,…
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Do Nones Really Have No Religion?
Bishop Robert Barron delivered this year's Erasmus Lecture last Monday, "Evangelizing the Nones", sponsored by First Things magazine. Your Roving Reporter was there. Nones are those who profess, when asked…
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On Australia’s Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ (On-Going) Vote — Guest Post by Dover Beach
Dover Beach, a philosopher, blogs at The Ordeal of Consciousness. In case you haven't heard, Australia is currently in the grip of postal plebiscite on same-sex 'marriage' (SS'M' herein). The…
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Insanity & Doom Update IV
Item ELLE Magazine Video Celebrates 8 Year Old Drag Queen, Lactatia' ELLE Magazine put out this horrible video of an eight-year-old boy who has has been taught it's ok to…
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Insanity & Doom Update III
Item Canada Introduces 'X' as a Third Sex Category for Passport Holders Starting on Aug. 31, Canadians will have a new way to identify their sex on passports and other…
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The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part I
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part I of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…