I look in, fairly often, on two virulently anti-Mormon, predominantly apostate, and overwhelmingly atheistic message boards.   On one of them, every Sunday without fail, there’s at least one thread devoted to the glorious things that they’re doing instead of attending services at “TSCC” (“the so-called Church”).   Typically, these alternative activities seem to run along the lines of, for instance, strolling along a Tahitian beach, amusing themselves with a bevy of Playboy playmates, preparing to participate in a... Read more

    “Great minds discuss ideas.  Average minds discuss events.  Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt (1882-1964)   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES.  HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED . . . WAS ENOUGH . . . SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD. General Mark W. Clark     I’m embarrassed to say that, despite my having spent a several days in Normandy just a couple of weeks ago, studying and thinking about and visiting sites... Read more

    My friend Dr. Bahman Baktiari has called my attention to this editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune:   http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/5368991-155/a-common-refuge   I wholeheartedly endorse it.   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    Here’s an interesting argument regarding a subject on which, only a few years back, it would have seemed spectacularly foolish to argue:     Why There Are Only Two Sexes   Wild, hateful, and unhinged heresy, no?   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    Haram — pronounced roughly ha-RAHM — means “forbidden” (under shari‘a or Islamic law):   https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/207047-Religious-scholars-issue-unanimous-fatwa-declaring-suicide-attacks-Haram   Thanks to Ronald L. Dunn for bringing this article to my attention.   Of course, it’s most likely that this conference of religious scholars in Islamabad was simply staged by CNN and George Soros.  Perhaps with help from the Illuminati and a group of shape-shifting reptilian lizard men.   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    An interesting article from a woman who’s written a book on the subject:   http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2017/06/01/why_jeffersons_vision_of_american_islam_matters_today_110149.html   It’s appropriate, I suppose, that I’m posting this link from the city that Thomas Jefferson chose to replace Williamsburg as the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and where he himself served as governor.   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/01/religious-liberty-battle-still-rages-over-gay-marriage/102389040/   I devoutly hope that President Trump will have the opportunity to name at least one more justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, and that his future nominee(s) will be of the same quality and general judicial philosophy as Neil Gorsuch.   Posted from Richmond, Virginia     Read more

    1.   One of the commenters on my blog — I seriously wonder, sometimes, whether he might be a liberal trying to make conservatives look silly — responded to my post “Why don’t Muslims in the United Kingdom condemn terrorism?”   “Hahahahahahahaha,” he argued, declaring that the Evening Standard article cited in that post “is pushing a false narrative to serve the commie liberal agenda.”  (Everybody with whom he disagrees, or pretends to disagree, is a “commie liberal.”)... Read more

    The title is just a tad misleading.   For one thing, there are plenty of highly intelligent theists, people who are every bit as intelligent, every bit as thoughtful and rational, as any atheist.   But I think it’s unarguably true — it’s certainly been my consistent impression — that the percentage of atheists among highly intelligent people is higher than it is among the population at large.   This article assumes that to be true, and outlines an... Read more