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Aquinas WatchAquinas by way of

Posted on July 22, 2009
Aquinas WatchAquinas by way of the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton on his book rubbishing Dawkins and Hitchens. Some quotes:"Imagine," fired Eagleton, "someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology...

Never go up against a car salesman

Posted on July 20, 2009
Never go up against a car salesman when God, Guns and Guts are on the line.Run this guy for Congress.Auto dealer Mark Muller refuses to play the rube for CNN anchorbabe Carole Costello, who comes across as the teachers pet in high school. As Suzanna Logan observes, "Frankly, I'm suprised that CNN even aired the clip...

Slouching toward GomorahFrancis

Posted on July 20, 2009
Slouching toward GomorahFrancis Beckwith points to incest in Hollywood - admittedly involving "step" rather than genetic relations - and to the legal defense of incest under the "right of privacy" offered by Jonathon Turley.I think that the fact that there is no genetic relationship is not a justification...

"Truer words have never been babbled."James

Posted on July 19, 2009
"Truer words have never been babbled."James Lileks explains that we should be thanking Joe Biden for his "gaffes" - they reveal to us what the administration is really thinking.

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HeresyEpiscopal Presiding Bishop

Posted on July 19, 2009
HeresyEpiscopal Presiding Bishop Schori has identified the one group that cannot be tolerated within Christianity - Evangelical Protestants. In a church that has ordained homosexuals living with their partners and was able to live with a Bishop that denied the existence of God, and with a priest is a Muslim, Schori has lowered the boom on those who adhere to an individualistic view of salvation:

Losing his religionJimmy Carter

Posted on July 19, 2009
Losing his religionJimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptists.On his way out, Carter indulges in his worst vice of shiving his old friends and supporters in order to buy credibility with new friends. Hence, he explains the SBC's theological position as follows: So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult...

Coming Soon to an America Near

Posted on July 18, 2009
Coming Soon to an America Near You!Canadian Human Rights Commission files complaint against Catholic bishop for refusing to allow homosexual to serve as altar server.TORONTO, July 10, 2009 - The Catholic Civil Rights League commented today on the filing of a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against the Bishop of Peterborough for discontinuing the service of two homosexual men as

You think?USA Today asks "Could

Posted on July 17, 2009
You think?USA Today asks "Could we be wrong about global warming?Could the best climate models -- the ones used to predict global warming -- all be wrong?Maybe so, says a new study published online today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The report found that only about half of the warming that occurred during a natural climate change 55 million years ago can be explained by excess carbon

That kind of whacko talk would

Posted on July 17, 2009
That kind of whacko talk would never be tolerated in our Englightened AgeI just finished reading "Ten Books that Screwed Up the World" by Benjamin Wiker. It's great fun, which I recommend, a kind of "window into Dante's Hell by way of the Great Books...

Remember, Palin was the "dumb"

Posted on July 17, 2009
Remember, Palin was the "dumb" vice presidential candidate."Crazy Joe" Biden explains exonomics for the AARP:Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money...

Bare, ruined choirsN.T. Wright:

Posted on July 16, 2009
Bare, ruined choirsN.T. Wright: The American Episcopal church is choosing schism.

Worth Watching

Posted on July 16, 2009
Worth Watching

InterestingBrian Griffits, aka

Posted on July 16, 2009
InterestingBrian Griffits, aka Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, trustee of the Archbishop of Canterbury?s Lambeth Trust and Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International - and when he talks, everyone listens - offers this:When Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope, his strengths and weaknesses seemed clear...

Maybe the Democrats use of the

Posted on July 16, 2009
Maybe the Democrats use of the race card is past its "sell by" date.When Barbara Boxer plays the race card on the head of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, he doesn't like it...and he doesn't think that race has anything to do with energy.

The Heckler's VetoWhat's Wrong

Posted on July 09, 2009
The Heckler's VetoWhat's Wrong With the World has this incredible video of Americans being denied their free speech rights at a Muslim street festival in Deerborn, Michigan.The law is that the police must protect speakers from such "heckler's vetos." Let's hope that in Multi-cultural America, the right to free speech isn't nuanced in favor of favored minorities.

The Hidden AgendaIt's interesting

Posted on July 09, 2009
The Hidden AgendaIt's interesting how the hidden agenda of abortion-rights - reducing the surplus welfare population - has been clumsily revealed by certain liberal women recently, as if they are forgetting that they are not having a private discussion in the Hamptons...

Samuel Greg at the Acton Powerblog

Posted on July 09, 2009
Samuel Greg at the Acton Powerblog offers his take on the new encyclical Caritas in Veritate:Perhaps Caritas in Veritate?s most important truth-claim about economic life is that the market economy cannot be based on just any value-system. Against all relativists on the left and the right, Benedict maintains that market economies must be underpinned by commitments to particular basic moral goods

Economic malaise raises hope for

Posted on July 05, 2009
Economic malaise raises hope for melanin-deficient redheadsEconomic malaise seems to be driving dating:Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates.Economic woes, it seems, unleash something practically primal in many of us who find ourselves without a partner: a hard-wired desire for

1974 Detroit is coming back with

Posted on July 03, 2009
1974 Detroit is coming back with a vengeance!

NominalismCraig wrote:In a message

Posted on July 01, 2009
NominalismCraig wrote:In a message dated 6/29/2009 5:19:42 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, craigb@csufresno.edu writes:Here's why I'm wondering. If God is defined as "being itself," which I take it is Aquinas position, and being is inherently good, then God, and the moral structure of the universe, would just be good, baring enemy action...

Love and Economics From Vox Day:

Posted on June 30, 2009
Love and Economics From Vox Day: "Is marriage worth it? Well, I should say it increasingly depends on the sex and religion of the individual. In its present state-dictated form, marriage is very much worth it for women, it is a tolerable and necessary risk for religious men, and it is an incredibly stupid gamble for non-religious men...

Remember when dissent was the highest

Posted on June 29, 2009
Remember when dissent was the highest form of patriotism?Dissent on global warming and you are guilty of treason! To the Planet!According to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman:So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement...

Gay Adoption not in the news.Newsbusters

Posted on June 29, 2009
Gay Adoption not in the news.Newsbusters has this non-MSM story:Frank Lombard is an associate director at Duke University's Global Health Institute and a homosexual who was charged last week with the molestation of his adopted 5-year-old black son and actively trying to sell him for sex on the internet...

Ethnic CleansingBosnia's Catholics

Posted on June 28, 2009
Ethnic CleansingBosnia's Catholics Nearly Gone:The Muslim population is growing in Bosnia to such an extent that Sarajevo is a "practically Muslim city," according to Cardinal Franc Rodé.The prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life affirmed this when he spoke with Vatican Radio about his June 19-21 trip to the Balkans...

Two atheists arguing over how enthusistic

Posted on June 27, 2009
Two atheists arguing over how enthusistic an atheist has to be in "liquidating" non-atheists.This exchange at Sam Harris' website is rather chilling. It seems that Harris wants to purge Phillip Ball of his atheistic cum "rationalis" bona fides because he refuses to ascribe all Evil to believers...

Another reason why popular culture

Posted on June 27, 2009
Another reason why popular culture is sickIs there nothing else happening in the world? Must not be, otherwise why was there wall-to-wall coverage about the death of a middle-aged,narcissitic, bankrupt, has-been pedophile?Canada Free Press apologizes "Sorry Neda, We Have a Pedophile to Worship":You know what would be really shocking? Michael Jackson dying at the age of 87...

The Global Warming ScandalThe consensus

Posted on June 26, 2009
The Global Warming ScandalThe consensus - which was manufactured like the "Bolsheviks" manufactured their majority status - is breaking down according to the Wall Street Journal:Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting...

If only teachers could marry -

Posted on June 18, 2009
If only teachers could marry - part of a continuing seriesThis time it's in Indiannapolis and involves a male teacher and a 13 year old boy.

Dialogue on Calvin, nature and

Posted on June 12, 2009
Dialogue on Calvin, nature and the knowledge of GodFrom an online discussion with other "Fresno Bookies."Craig is the author of "The Trial of Man: Christianity and Judgment in the World of Shakespeare and writes at VDH, which is high up on the coolness index...

PerspectiveVictor Davis Hanson

Posted on June 12, 2009
PerspectiveVictor Davis Hanson responds to a Letterman apologist:The intent of Letterman's tripartite sexual reference was to suggest that the Palins were synonymous with female promiscuity. (cf. Letterman's further references to the governor's "slutty" look, and remarks about former governor Eliot Spitzer's interest in a Palin daughter, e...

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