Tag: morality
member name: Bert B.
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April 10, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
This is the second of a series of dialogues between my friend Al, who is a devout Christian, and me. The first one is called A Question of Faith.
We were on our second beer, which is usually . . .
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October 28, 2008 09:00 PM EDT --
THE BIG NEWS on the Internet yesterday was that federal authorities arrested two skinhead cretins who were plotting to kill over a hundred black people, including Barack Obama.
Now, these . . .
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June 28, 2008 11:09 PM EDT --
Some people do not like what their kids will experience in public schools, so they "educate" them at home. Is this good or bad?
First, I must admit that I have some bias here. . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:09 PM EST --
I am happy that Obama won. I think it shows that Americans showed that they could see past the race issue. The result is not so much a rejection of McCain...although his campaign disillusioned . . .
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November 21, 2008 12:49 AM EST --
Devout religious believers often deplore the “moral relativism” of liberal/progressive thought, claiming that absolute moral standards, as defined by their sacred scriptures, are necessary . . .
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December 15, 2008 12:40 AM EST --
Moral Relativism and Inalienable Rights
Moral Relativism and Inalienable Rights - Continued
My previous articles on this subject (links above) have generated a long debate and a comment thread . . .
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February 23, 2009 12:59 AM EST --
Moral or ethical dilemmas are often presented in an attempt to manipulate us to accept a particular point of view, no matter how distasteful we find it. In many cases, the dilemma is bogus, based on . . .
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January 28, 2009 11:20 PM EST --
Pope Benedict XVI, otherwise known as Joseph Ratzinger, is deemed infallible when it comes to matters of church dogma. According to the Church, God tells him what to say, and he cannot . . .
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February 18, 2009 12:27 AM EST --
Moral or ethical dilemmas are often presented in an attempt to manipulate us to accept a particular point of view, no matter how distasteful we find it. In many cases, the dilemma is bogus, . . .
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August 24, 2008 04:07 PM EDT --
If you are a practicing atheist, then you are practicing a religion.
Don’t try to deny it. I’ll prove it to you.
When you get up every morning and go to bed every night, don’t . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:02 PM EDT --
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a beautiful young married couple named Ken and Barbie. They had two children named Ken Jr. and Barbarella. Ken was a lawyer, in a very successful private practice. . . .
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August 17, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
I read an article in the LA times the other day about the pastor of a church in Buena Park, CA. His name is Wiley S. Drake, and I guess I should have suspected something phony about anyone who has . . .
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June 24, 2008 03:47 PM EDT --
James Dobson, head of the fundamentalist Christian Religious Right group, Focus on the Family, issued another of his patented blasts of self-righteous flatulence today. He attacked Barack Obama, . . .
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July 13, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
On June 18, just as summer vacations were starting for most high schoolers, Time Magazine published a blockbuster article detailing a "pregnancy pact" among 16-year-old-girls at Gloucester High . . .
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August 08, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
A long, long time ago, there were humans on the earth. Records show that the first ones probably lived in what we now call Africa more than fifty thousand years ago, and from there, they gradually . . .
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August 16, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Everybody suffers from it…except me, of course. Well, I sometimes get up on my high horse about gas-guzzling SUV’s, but that’s different. I’m right, and I am just trying to help out all . . .
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June 17, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The Tragedy of the Commons (TOC) is not widely known or understood, except among people who have studied environmental science. The depletion of fishery stocks and whale populations are graphic . . .
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June 18, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Today, June 18 th , President Bush said that the Democrats are to blame for high oil prices. When I read this, I laughed out loud…and then I got mad.
This is truly the era . . .
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August 01, 2008 12:30 AM EDT --
Blaise Pascal, the famous 17 th century French Philosopher and mathematician had some advice for those who were undecided about the existence of God. In what has become known as “Pascal’s Wager,” . . .
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October 28, 2008 11:37 PM EDT --
This is not a real letter to McCain. Nor is it from me. It is from a person who is in a unique position to understand the latest disclosures about John McCain’s personal life . . .
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