Monthly Archives: March 2011

Literal reductiveness, angelic and demonic

Posted on March 11, 2011 by David Hume

Sean, our resident Islam expert who advised me to go meet those Muslims whom I’ve never met, said something which caught my attention below: “What Islam is as a realized matter” is also a lot broader than “they support terrorists … Continue reading →

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The double standard

Posted on March 10, 2011 by David Hume

A few years ago Markos Moulitas wrote a book, American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. This is in a long tradition of demonization of American Christian conservatives by the Left. All’s fair … Continue reading →

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NPR CEO resignation: possibly the right outcome, definitely the wrong reason

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

I take it as a given that NPR’s feature reporting and programs like On the Media are pervaded with liberal bias.  NPR will cover every cop shooting if any fringe element in a community claims racial bias by the cops, … Continue reading →

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God and Taxes

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s always worth remembering that there is a religious left too. Amongst its prominenti are the ‘social justice’ Christians of Jim Wallis’ Sojourners group, a public nuisance for years. Contemplating the nation’s budgetary woes, the Sojourners are now asking “What … Continue reading →

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Against Evolution

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Independent: A prominent British imam has been forced to retract his claims that Islam is compatible with Darwin’s theory of evolution after receiving death threats from fundamentalists. Dr Usama Hasan, a physics lecturer at Middlesex University and a … Continue reading →

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Lexington, Concord Fought In Vain

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Bradlaugh

Andrew: The fame of C.S. Lewis’s “trilemma” argument has always been deeply baffling to me. The normal reaction of a thoughtful person (me, Martin Gardner, Richard Dawkins) on first hearing it is: Why couldn’t Jesus just have been mistaken? People … Continue reading →

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On The Run

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted over at the Corner. Writing in the Guardian Nick Cohen puts the terrible killings in Pakistan into wider context: One Pakistani journalist I spoke to described his fellow liberals as members of a persecuted minority, who now knew that … Continue reading →

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Reading the Bible (or not)

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Reviewing a new book on the Bible for the New Republic, Adam Kirsch notes this: While there is no denying that the Bible remains central—Beal quotes polls indicating that “65 percent of all Americans believe that the Bible ‘answers all … Continue reading →

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Mere

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Much as I enjoyed the Narnia books as a child, I’ve never got the whole C.S. Lewis thing and I don’t intend to start trying now. Writing in the New York Times Mark Oppenheimer looks at the Lewis phenomenon and, … Continue reading →

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Birth Control and the Prevention of Abortion

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Wherever you stand on the abortion debate, the idea that access to contraception does not reduce the number of abortions ought to seem, to say the least, counter-intuitive, yet that’s what Kirsten Powers ends up arguing in this Daily Beast … Continue reading →

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