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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization
Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007
Liberal vs. Liberation
Liberal theology and liberation theology are two different understandings with distinct histories and views. Liberal theology did, indeed, grow out of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the purview of European white males. Influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution, liberal theologians believed that humankind was continually making ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ghiarev on August 20, 2007