The Fray
Go to Ask.com
enter the fray: our reader discussion forum
The Fray Browse by Tags
Sign in
  
Advanced
All Tags » dogma

  • News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional

    I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 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

  • Enslaved by religions Law (and "the community")

    Hitchens is right on the mark here. What the Archbishop is advocating is putting the rights of a religious community above the rights of individuals. Of course, not all Muslims in Britain are as hostile to women's rights as in the examples Hitchens give. But, in too many cases, the religious authorities in the Islamic world seem to have an utter ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by curiousgemini on February 11, 2008

  • Someone please help me with this...

    OK. Background- I'm a well-educated, New England liberal. I believe that religion and the state should be kept separate. I believe that America is a place of great ideals and great potential, but that potential is squandered on superficial consumerism. I believe that Wal-Mart, and other uber-capitalist corporations like it are downright evil. I ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by wickedpissa on December 1, 2007

  • I agree- but...

    I agree with the position taken by the author that Mitt needs to talk more about his religion. Religion is one of those things that helps form the core of many people. Therefore understanding Mitt's religion can help us understand who he is and what he will stand for if elected. That being said, however, I fundamentally disagree with the manner ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by robtherobot on November 29, 2007

  • Proud to be Mormon

    Wow! This article really hurt my feelings. Politics is one thing and it seems that mudslinging within campaigning is tolerated, however some of the comments made in this article went beyond mudslinging at a cadidate and were more directed at the religion itself. I don't know what exactly qualifies Mr. Christopher Hitchens as an expert of my ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Debater on November 27, 2007

  • Hitchens' Hate Speech

    Frankly, Hitchens remarks are every bit as offensive as those which got the likes of Don Imus and Jimmy the Greek fired. Hitchens equates membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which, by the way is not the ''so-called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,'' even Hitchens must know that) with membership in the Ku Klux ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by cjcampbell on November 27, 2007

  • Fighting Words: Mitt The Mormon

    Christopher Hitchens and Slate's unabashed and shameless contempt for all things Mormon has been showing for months. So, today's supporting material –Mitt The Mormon -- for Hitchens nomination as ''Bigot of the Year,'' while disappointing -- as a rule, I happen to admire Hitchens writing -- was no particular surprise. Hitchens was right about ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by RB Scott on November 26, 2007

  • Racial superiority in Islam

    Hitchens in his article on Islamofascism writes: ''Technically, no form of Islam preaches racial superiority or proposes a master race.'' This is not entirely true. The notion of racial superirity was eliminated by Prophet Muhammad in his statements and also in the Quran, but within hours of his death, the doctrine of Meccan Arab superiority ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tarek Fatah on October 24, 2007

  • Is is not Ought

    I am often surprised by how many otherwise intelligent people fall into the intellectual error of presuming that ontological (or indeed epistemological) claims are ethical claims -- invariably moving from the general to the specific as they do so. Even granting that there is a theotropic instinct, that in no way implies that societies ought to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by quibblemuch on August 20, 2007
1 2 Next >