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• How Much Tolerance for Intolerance?

  
  Algemeiner — Authority: 593
  United Nations in Geneva. Photo: wiki commons. Tolerance is justifiably one of liberal Democracy’s most cherished values. But what do we do when tolerance, with its openness to multiple views, permits and even supports intolerance? This is particularly an issue today when open prejudice against Jews and Israel, ...
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• Science and Modernity : Guest Post by Ravi Sinha

  
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  Science and modernity are widely considered among the most celebrated features of contemporary human civilization. Increasingly they are taken as the defining elements that distinguish our times from the times gone by. At such a sweeping level, there can be many other ways to characterize the contemporary. One can, ...
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• Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of ...
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• Foundations for Atheist Morality: The Relativist View Part VI

  
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  In last week’s installment of “Foundations for Atheist Morality” , we discussed the difficulty which accompanies any attempt to positively determine the actual moral views of the majority within a given society.  But what if those views could be determined?  What then?  The difficulties for the moral ...
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• The Invisible Bible Verse on Judging Others

  
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  Advertise here with Beacon Ads I recently commented in a comment stream on that wonderful social medium of gracious exchange – Facebook! In the heat of the exchange that Bible verse from Matthew 7 used its powers of invisibility again. The issue was on judging sin in others in light of the topic of loving ...
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• Israeli Bombing of Syria and Moral Relativism

  
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  By Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian, May 6, 2013 On Sunday, Israel dropped massive bombs near Damascus, ones which the New York Times, quoting residents, originally reported (then evidently deleted) resulted in explosions “more massive than anything the residents of the city… have witnessed during more than two ...
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• Fox News Report: See No Evil

  
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  Aired on Fox News on May 3, 2013, and May 5, 2013, the video below may contain information of which you have previously been unaware: Hideous in every respect! Important reading : "Why Dr. Kermit Gosnells Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story."
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• Against National Relativism

  
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  It’s not every term in meta-ethical theory that gets taken up into burning public-policy debates. But due to a complex series of cultural events, the term moral relativism has. The problem is that nearly every use of the term moral relativism in common political debate has more or less nothing actually to do ...
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• Foundations for Atheist Morality: The Relativist View Part V

  
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  In our first four installments of “Foundations for Atheist Morality” , we examined the argument that moral right and wrong may be determined relative to the views of the majority within a given society.  We discussed the dangers of basing morality on those views which provide cohesion within a cultural group and ...
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• Department of Defense states that it will punish Christians for evangelizing

  
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  ECM posted this story from Breitbart . Excerpt: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case ...
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• Virtue! How I have missed thee

  
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  Ahhhh - its like coming home again , if my home were a medical waste bin or a vat of acid or something equally unpleasant. "Ultimately, the standard [of virtue] is embedded in the order of existence. Courage always and everywhere will be firmness in the face of the enemy. But different societies will and should ...
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• Ravi Zacharias on the Acceptance of Homosexuality in Christianity

  
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  Advertise here with Beacon Ads Ravi Zacharias is asked, “Is it possible for a man or a woman to live a sincere Christian life as a homosexual?” Zacharias was very interesting because frames the answer by placing sexuality in the sacred category. He does this by sharing a story of someone asking him why ...
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• Foundations for Atheist Morality: The Relativist View Part IV

  
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  Last week in “Foundations for Atheist Morality” , we examined the difficulties inherent in using power (physical, numerical, governmental, etc.) to subject the morality of one cohesive society to the opposing morality of another cohesive society.  This week, we will continue our discussion with a look at the ...
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• Big Three Networks Cover Internet Cats Pics, Lit Trivia, Canadian Clumsiness, But Not Gosnell Trial

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston Another week has gone by and the Big Three Networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, again gave scant notice to the “house of horrors” that is the Kermit Gosnell abortion trial. The Nets had time for funny cat pictures on the Internet, a Canadian mayor bumping into a camera, and fun trivia about the ...
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• Consequences of Relativism

  
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  An important short film by Brian Godawa . Tagged: Brian Godawa , Film , Relativism , Truth , Worldview
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• Book Review: Has Christianity Failed You?

  
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  One of the major obstacles that I come against in defending the Christian worldview is simply a misunderstanding of the worldview. So many times people tell me that they reject Christianity based on one thing or another that Christianity teaches. … Continue reading →
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• New York Times Defends Non-Coverage of Gosnell Trial, Says Trial is Meaningless

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 569
  -By Warner Todd Huston For The New York Times , editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal penned an apologia for the Old Media establishment’s disinterest in covering the abortion trial of Kermit Gosnell and essentially claimed that the trial is a meaningless incident when all things are considered, especially when ...
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