Category Archives: culture

Romania to decriminalize incest

Posted on April 12, 2009 by David Hume

Romania weighs decriminalizing consensual incest: Three European Union nations — France, Spain and Portugal — do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit. … Laws exempting parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters from prosecution for incestuous … Continue reading →

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The decline of American Catholicism?

Posted on April 12, 2009 by David Hume

I have a post up at ScienceBlogs noting the erosion in numbers among American Catholics part of a general shift away from institutional religion.

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Godless liberals & religious conservatives, the numbers recapped

Posted on April 8, 2009 by David Hume

I’ve presented this data before, but I thought a review would be nice to get into the record. AllahPundit and Ace have both linked to Heather’s post on David Brooks & the New Atheist. Ace notes: This gets at something … Continue reading →

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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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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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Watching the Door

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Bradlaugh

My review of Kevin Myers’ book, which I mentioned in a previous post, is now online at Taki’s Magazine.

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No Religion, Please — We’re English

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Bradlaugh

[T]he common people are without definite religious belief, and have been so for centuries. The Anglican Church never had a real hold on them, it was simply a preserve of the landed gentry, and the Nonconformist sects only influenced minorities. And … Continue reading →

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Secular & right-wing edition of bloggingheads.tv?

Posted on February 28, 2009 by David Hume

Well, depends on how you define secular. I interviewed Greg Cochran on bloggingheads.tv recently, talking about evolution, etc.  I think this might be the only way that you could get two registered Republicans on that show; have them talk only … Continue reading →

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