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Category Archives: culture
Human Rights and Faith
Here’s a good thumb-sucker piece, courtesy of Arts & Letters Daily, about the connection between human rights and religious belief. In there somewhere is a version of the “midwife” argument — i.e. that whether or not religious faith was necessary to … Continue reading
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Bummer!
No wonder the newspaper business is in trouble. Look at the standard of reporting in this story from the Baltimore Sun: Police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier … Continue reading
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Save the Apostrophe!
I have some Derbishly mean-spirited (I hope!) remarks about the cavalier use of apostrophes in my upcoming month-end diary on NRO. Had I read this story before sending in my copy, I would have been more restrained. Apparently the apostrophe … Continue reading
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What’s the Difference?
I watched Bill O’Reilly’s show last night on Fox News. The Big Mick was going on about how the successful ditching of that plane in the Hudson River, and the rescue of all on board, must have been a miracle. … Continue reading
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God against the gods
In Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 the author notes that militant secularism during the 19th century in France was a feature of the Metropole. In contrast, the French Church was always the privileged handmaid of Empire no matter … Continue reading
Unfit to Serve
Ron Guhname, who blogs as “Inductivist,” and knows his way round all the GSS and polling data, has dug up an interesting result from the World Values Survey. The pollsters asked respondents in 60-odd countries if they agreed that an … Continue reading
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Which came first & why?
The piece that Walter mentioned below makes an interesting assertion: Christianity, post-Reformation and post-Luther, with its teaching of a direct, personal, two-way link between the individual and God, unmediated by the collective, and unsubordinate to any other human being, smashes … Continue reading
News flash: majority of American Christians are not Christian!
A month ago some bloggers were mooting whether Barack Hussein Obama was a Christian at all due to his heterodox beliefs. Well, we now know how it was that the majority Americans voted for this avowed Christian non-Christian: most American … Continue reading
Literary Diversions
Nothing much to do with secularity or rightness, but heck, it’s Christmas, let’s have some light relief. My December/January issue of Literary Review arrived from London today, containing the finalists for the magazine’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award. In … Continue reading
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When Times Are Good…
… you don’t burn incense; when times are bad, you hug Buddha’s foot. You heard it here first. Want it in the original? No prob.