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  • Freedom of Religion versus Religion of Freedom

    when religions compete, the result ranges from war to peaceful coexistence, from televangelists of homemade science to vatican scholars of big bang theory, from condescending prosetylization to the spine tingling vibrations of a spiritual musical in the time of Adam Smith, competition and free markets meant the same thing because both were ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by barry payne - economist on December 21, 2008

  • Re: speech or advertising?

    Aha! We've hit on the true crux of the issue! The Ten Commandments is an advertisement - for the movie of the same name! Now, I happen to be very much a fan of MyDamnChannel's You Suck At Photoshop. Perhaps the Supreme Court will mandate that this series be commemorated, perhaps in a thirty-foot-tall monolith of black granite? --Devin ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by dccarles on November 13, 2008

  • Well, That's Good News for Dems and Catholics Both

    I did not need to read this article, to take immediate notice when 1) Gov. Casey's Son spoke at the Democratic Convention this year, in contrast to the first Bill Clinton Convention in 1992; and 2) Joe Biden was picked to join this 2008 Ticket with Obama. Both were welcome developments to me, and I have the sensitivities on these pro-Abort ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 2008

  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Government abuse of power

    South Dakotas law relating to doctor patient communication and abortion: This is just another method for people using and abusing government power. They attempt to control others and legislate morality by forcing their beliefs (usually based on their religion) upon all of society. Their goal is to limit freedom and force conformity with their ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by den99md on July 4, 2008

  • Lieing Hypocrites

    What an article. Talk about no research. Did the author just call up the JW PR department and copy down everything they told him? Yes, the Watchtower Society promoted the fact that the poor Witnesses in the African country of Malawi were being persecuted because they were told by the Watchtower not to buy a political I.D. card. If they did the ...
    Posted to Explainer by Harry Harr on June 28, 2008

  • Jehovah's witnesses..GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY

    '' Jehovah's Witnesses have interpreted that statement as a call to remain neutral in all political matters. (In some of the sect's literature, members are described as ''representatives of God's heavenly kingdom''; they are thus obligated to stay out of local political affairs in keeping with the behavior of ambassadors.) Witnesses also refrain ...
    Posted to Explainer by zook on June 27, 2008

  • Obama's rationale: Were his observations way off base?

    I live in a mostly all white small American town and the frequent conversations I over here about buying and stockpiling guns and ammunition, by young and middle aged white men, makes me feel as if my life is in danger. What are so many guns for? Who are they gearing up to protect themselves from or to harm, there are very very few African ...
    Posted to XX Factor by MJWsr on April 14, 2008

  • Popery

    One of my 1st memories, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, was a parish priest preaching a sermon on the Vatican's treaty with Italy's Fasciasts & how it helped the RC' minister to a war torn world. The church was in the Arcdioces of Cincinasty. The Archbishop was an avid analiguist for & to Pius 12. He even named a high school for ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on April 14, 2008

  • If you run on your beliefs you better defend them

    The Romney's and the Huckabees and the Bushes of the world want us to think that they are good people because they believe in God. This may or may not be true. They may not be good people. They may be bad people, because of their beliefs, they may be good people in spite of their beliefs or they may be good people because of their beliefs, but if ...
    Posted to Today's Blogs by Beaujoe on December 13, 2007
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