Author Archives: David Hume

Biblical literalism correlates with thinking extramarital sex is wrong

Posted on April 6, 2009 by David Hume

The Audacious Epigone has a post up where the title says it all, Extramarital sex wrong? Gays and supporters of same sex marriage less likely to think so. But I was curious how MARHOMO, attitudes toward gay marriage, stacked up … Continue reading →

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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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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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Israel, gentile & Jews

Posted on March 27, 2009 by David Hume

A good point in regards to attitudes toward Israel and anti-Semitism broadly understood was brought up in the post below. How about attitudes toward Israel as a function of politics?

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Who is for the Jews? Left or Right?

Posted on March 26, 2009 by David Hume

Over at Red State Erick Erickson implies that the Left is anti-Semitic by way of the JournoList story: It makes for an interesting conversation. Apparently, many of the lefties don’t much care for Olbermann either. And they hate Marty Peretz, … Continue reading →

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When liberals discover the utility of custom & tradition

Posted on March 26, 2009 by David Hume

There is a clip of a recent bloggingheads.tv between Matt Yglesias and Mark Schmitt which is rather amusing, as they express a rather conservative sensibility:

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Muddle to the Right?

Posted on March 25, 2009 by David Hume

I’m reading Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World right now. I’ve not read Ferguson before, and I have to say he’s a rather good prose stylist. Though dense with data & concept The Ascent … Continue reading →

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Religion & age

Posted on March 9, 2009 by David Hume

A follow up to Bradlaugh’s post. In the GSS you can look at religious identification as a function of age. Below the fold is a chart where each bar is a year from age 18 up to 88. 89 and … Continue reading →

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The emergence of consensus

Posted on March 6, 2009 by David Hume

As Bradlaugh pointed out below to some extent abortion has become a litmus test which separates the American Left from the Right in the minds of many. Conservative evangelical Christians generally believe that the fundamentals of their faith compel them … Continue reading →

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