Monthly Archives: April 2009

Harvard Muslim chaplain on the wisdom of killing apostates

Posted on April 3, 2009 by David Hume

Talk Islam points me to a controversy over the Muslim chaplain at Harvard, Taha Abdul-Basser, expressing a moderate viewpoint when it comes to killing apostates. Moderate insofar as he admits to the wisdom of killing apostates! Here is the comment … Continue reading →

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Piety and Virtue

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Bradlaugh

Been reading with much enjoyment Juvenal’s Tenth Satire, possibly the gloomiest major poem ever written. George Gilbert Ramsay, who translated it for the Loeb Classical Library, calls it “a profoundly depressing and pessimistic poem.” Just my cup of tea. There’s a 1693 translation, … Continue reading →

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Attitudes toward homosexuality

Posted on April 1, 2009 by David Hume

In a follow up to my previous post, I decided to use the GSS’s logit regression feature to probe the relationship between a set of variables and attitudes toward homosexuality. The columns are the dependent variables, while the rows are … Continue reading →

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Moral Reasoning

Posted on April 1, 2009 by David Hume

There is a debate on the internet about homosexuality and morality, with Rod Dreher, Andrew Sullivan and Damon Linker at the center of the storm.  Nothing too surprising or unexpected.  All I would add is that this is a sort … Continue reading →

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