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• Obama and Democrats Don’t Understand ‘Sacrifice’

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 702
  -By Warner Todd Huston The jihadi movement has never made any bones about the fact that it intends to destroy western civilization from within using the West’s own principles as weapons against it. This is why, for instance, that radical Islamists have been angling to institute Sharia “law” inside England and ...
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• Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and So-called ‘Counter-examples’

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 527
  Matthew Flannagan Back to Matt Flannagan’s tirade against moral relativism  - that producer of such moral outrages as equality for women, freedom of homosexuals from legal persecution, and all those other things that cause your average member of a conservative think-tank to worry about all night in bed. Later ...
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• Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 527
  Matthew Flannagan Matt Flannagan, who blogs with his wife Madeleine at MandM , runs a New Zealand-based conservative think-tank called Thinking Matters . These ‘conservative think-tanks’ crop up from place to place and are usually euphemisms for groups of frustrated and atavistic reactionists who want ...
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• Jihad and America: The Land that Cried Sheep

  
  SelwynDuke.com — Authority: 126
  By Selwyn Duke People were shocked when MajorNidal Malik Hasan brutally targeted fellow servicemen at Texas’ Fort Hoodwith pistol fire, murdering 12 and wounding 31.   Yet, there is an aspect of this story that isfar more shocking — or, at least, one that would be considered so in a sanesociety. Wenow ...
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• First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Hilary WhiteROME, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that is a surprise to no one, the UK branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest of the groups that broke away from the mainstream Anglican Church over the ordination of woman and the latter’s support for active homosexuality, ...
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• Someone Must Have Been Praying to the Softener of Evil Hearts

  
  Byzantine Ramblings — Authority: 113
  This from KBTX Web Page.(Hat Tip to the Priestly Puglist - quite a srappy guy!)Planned Parenthood Director Leaves, Has Change of HeartPlanned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnsons life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after ...
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• Ah, the Republican Family Values Tour Continues

  
  Blevkog — Authority: 118
  And its latest contestant is the former Miss California, Carrie Prejean – whose remarks on gay marriage made her a 9-day wonder, and managed the minor miracle of making me sympathize with Perez Hilton and agree with Donald Trump, has ended her lawsuit against the Miss America pageant without getting a thin dime. ...
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• Now IKWRO is under threat

  
  Pickled Politics — Authority: 523
  After the news that the state refuses to continue to fund the Honour Network helpline, comes other blow. Now the state is to stop funding The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO). A £29,000 grant, which was allocated to pay for a full-time professional Kurdish outreach worker, will no longer ...
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• The “Folk” are Relativists

  
  Philosophy On The Mesa — Authority: 124
  The folks at Experimental Philosophy have some new data supporting the claim that most non-philosophers are ethical relativists, i.e. they believe that standards of rightness and wrongness are determined by cultural norms. For example, we asked subjects to interpret disagreement on the morality of the following ...
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• Not all cultures are equally valid and commendable

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 657
  Yes, I know, we’ve had a lot of discussion about Peter Tatchell this week. But I think what he had to say in a speech - presented at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 28 October 2009 - defending universal human rights against charges of “cultural imperialism” by cultural relativists, is very important. And, ...
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• Elizabeth Bathory must be dancing in her grave

  
  Byzantine Ramblings — Authority: 113
  This from yesterdays Washington Times.Aborted fetus cells used in beauty creamsValerie RichardsonA San Francisco cosmetics company has ignited an outcry among pro-lifers for including an unexpected ingredient in its anti-aging creams: skin-cell proteins from an aborted fetus.Children of God for Life, a watchdog group ...
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• Catholic News for November 5, 2009 A.D.

  
  CVSTOS FIDEI — Authority: 114
  CVSTOS FIDEI THVRSDAY EDITION 09 Election: Tide Turning Toward Truth or Relativism? - Dave Hartline, TAC Deal Hudson on Role of Social Conservatism in Election - Jay Anderson, Pro Eccls Outreach To The Homeless - Charlotte Hays, The Catholic Thing Same-Sex "Marriage" Loses Whenever the People ...
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• Mohler Reviews John R. Franke’s New Book, Manifold Witness

  
  David Westerfield > Weblog — Authority: 418
  Is Truth Really Plural? Postmodernism in Full Flower – Albert Mohler (A Review of John R. Franke’s new book, Manifold Witness ) Once again, as the case has been time and again, I agree with many of the critiques and assessments of the emerging/emergent movement concerning where modern American, Western ...
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• Foundationalism

  
  Theology for the Masses — Authority: 108
  A few days ago, I posted a picture which I thought demonstrated the relationship between Modernism, Foundationalism, Fundamentalism, and Christianity.  I’d like to clarify what I am talking about there, here. By Modernism , I mean the paradigm(s) of thought which owe their intellectual roots in the ...
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• Why Interfaith Work Does Not Equal Relativism

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 635
  There is a line in the Riga Veda, a collection of ancient Hindu scripture, that says “Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names.” I had heard of this before, but hadn’t given it much thought…
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• Appreciating Generational Differences

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 131
  Much has been written about the generational conflicts we are going through in the Church and in religious life; its the "70s priests" against the "neo-cons," the "John XXIII Catholics" against the "John Paul II Catholics," the so-called "spirit of Vatican II" against the so-called "reform of the reform," etc. I was ...
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• Archbishop Dolan gives the Times holy hell: Hits anti-church op-ed

  
  Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam — Authority: 440
  New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has condemned The New York Times -- blasting the Gray Lady and its columnist Maureen Dowd for what he says are examples of unfair, prejudicial and just downright mean anti-Catholicism. Dolan used his blog last Thursday on the Archdiocese of New Yorks Web site to rail against the Times ...
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• Bourgeois Beauty and Bourgeois Relativism

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  Devon, PA.   For those FPR readers interested in keeping up with my ongoing series, Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic , the third and fourth parts have appeared on First Principles .  The concluding, fifth part should appear early next month. Part III begins by setting out the conditions ...
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• Postmodern confusion . . .

  
  John's Corner of the World — Authority: 114
  I have to confess: I have not kept up on the details of postmodernism. Yesterday, in church, I saw a young man handing out some fliers. I asked him what they were. "Theyre for the youth," he said. "Could I have one?" I asked. "Sure!" And he handed me a couple of sheets of paper with two article on them. One was ...
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• Doing the Right Thing: 2,500 years of Moral Philosophy in one Blog Post!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  I suppose (or at least hope) that we all want to do the right thing but how do we decide what the right thing really is? We likely all have at least some vague principles that we follow to guide our decision making such as being honest, kind to others (or at least polite), and not stealing. Maybe our ethical ...
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