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Tag Archives: the Law

Christopher Hitchens, Religions, and Life Without God.

14-Feb-11

http://preferredmode.com/2014/03/17/monster-track-xv/ I’ve been impressed recently by the intelligence, articulateness, and unapologetically rakish character of Christopher Hitchens, and curiosity about and respect for the man prompted me to take a look at the fashionable atheist books of the day, beginning with his God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.  As is always the case with modern […]

The Two Islams and the Two Christianities.

31-Oct-10

http://ukadventureracing.co.uk/2012/01/uk-adventure-racers-bloggers “Tell me, you who wish to be under a Law: have you not heard the Law?  It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a maidservant and one of a free woman.  The son by the maidservant was according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman was according to the […]

Oh My… Stone Shamu???

04-Mar-10

Memory cannot really handle just how crazy the American Family Association – a huge organization, by the way, with 200 radio stations and all kinds of clout – really is.  You need to be reminded again and again.  One of their writers, Bryan Fischer, accused Seaworld of negligence by keeping a killer whale with a […]

Solving the Humanity Problem with the Criminal Code.

03-Feb-10

It is tried over and over again – and it fails every time.  The Law, as says Paul, “is powerless to oppose the flesh.”  But still the temptation remains to fix it all with a law.  The most effective mode of practicing this heresy, of course, is to pick a minority and enforce the law […]