You miss that meme? Rendering Unto Caesar. Well, let me give you a taste of that long-forgotten snack a little bit here. I'm gonna occupy you with the topic of the downfall of reason. And the degradation of the mind. The larger the extent that religious cults regulate a person's everyday behavior, the more beneficial they become to some people. The ( Read more... )

The single idea that recurs again and again in the rhetoric of religious reactionaries is the notion that something is against nature. Prophylactic devices should not be used because they do violence to nature. People of the same sex should not be allowed to wed because their lifestyle is unnatural. These people claim to own a trademark on the ( Read more... )

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We had an incident at our test facility that gave us some insight into the way that American military priorities are established. A representative from the American military began to make noise about the intellectual propriety of neural wave technology. The man claimed the technology to be private property demanded monopoly status in its ( Read more... )

One of the differences between a modernist a someone trapped in a medieval mindset is the approach taken toward the entity that medieval thinkers claim to be divine. A modernist will infer from the poor track record of medieval thinking that the entity considered to be divine is not really divine. The assumption that it is only divine in the ( Read more... )

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A pivotal character in Church history was an Italian monk of the Dominican Order by the name of Girolamo Savonarola. He was a contemporary of another Italian who made a name for himself by enslaving Native Americans and stealing their land. Savonarola advocated in favor of Church reform before it became a fashionable endeavor. His fans have ( Read more... )

Liberals who have been oohing and aahing over the new vicar of Caesar Jesus, the Ignatian Pontifex Maximus named after the monk of Assisi, now have reason to check their emotional optimism at the cathedral vestibule. Frank encouraged a Maltese prelate to speak out on his own opposition to adoptions by same-sex couples. Is this based on a ( Read more... )

Back in the day word leaked out of the Soviet Union that political dissidents were being incarcerated as mental patients. To be opposed to the outcome of the proletarian Revolution was seen as a symptom of psychosis. A rationale could easily be made that only a sick mind would seek to depose the all-powerful Communist Party. The logic of ( Read more... )

The fundamentalist value proposition states that there is only one deity and it is obedient to the will of fundamentalists. This may come across as hubris to people who have never been confined to fundamentalist thought processes, but it constitutes piety and orthodoxy in fundamentalist "spiritual" practice.

As we saw in an earlier posting John ( Read more... )