E. J. Dionne is a liberal columnist, but as a Catholic he has a guilty conscience over abortion. Other progressives do too. Dionne is calling on Barack Obama to carry out his promise to find common ground with pro-lifers and to do things to reduce
E. J. Dionne is a liberal columnist, but as a Catholic he has a guilty conscience over abortion. Other progressives do too. Dionne is calling on Barack Obama to carry out his promise to find common ground with pro-lifers and to do things to reduce
As Charles Krauthammer explains, we really are talking about socialist, as opposed to free market, economics, a command economy run from the top by government dictate: Saving Detroit means saving it from bankruptcy. As we have seen with the airlines, bankruptcy can allow operations to
Thanks to Rich Shipe for alerting me to this listing of Ten Arguments for the Existence of God. Some of them I had never heard of before (e.g., the argument from aesthetics; the argument from arguments; the argument from evil). Of course, such arguments are
You know the $700 billion bailout that was passed to create a “Troubled Asset Recovery Program”? Well, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson has decided not to buy troubled assets. Instead, he is buying bank stock. According to ABC, “Paulson said today, he knew when
A Salt Lake City suburb has a monument of the Ten Commandments in a public place. That’s OK because it was donated by a private group. So now a self-described New Age Gnostic group called Summum has donated a monument inscribed with its Seven Aphorisms.
1. Summum is mind, thought; the universe is a mental creation. 2. As above, so below; as below, so above. 3. Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates. 4. Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike
Still more from William Lane Craig on God in contemporary philosophy: The ontological argument. Anselm’s famous argument has been reformulated and defended by Alvin Plantinga, Robert Maydole, Brian Leftow, and others. God, Anselm observes, is by definition the greatest being conceivable. If you could conceive
David Brooks cites two factions that are vying for control of a rebuilt conservative movement: In one camp, there are the Traditionalists, the people who believe that conservatives have lost elections because they have strayed from the true creed. George W. Bush was a big-government
A few weeks ago, we posted about atheists in England proselytyzing for their lack of faith by putting ads on buses. That has inspired a similar campaign in Washington, D. C. Atheists have bought space on metrobuses to display the slogan “Why believe in a
More from William Lane Craig on the new acceptance of God in contemporary academic philosophy: The moral argument. A number of ethicists, such as Robert Adams, William Alston, Mark Linville, Paul Copan, John Hare, Stephen Evans, and others have defended “divine command” theories of ethics,
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