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Category Archives: Religion
L’uomo di sasso*
Tony Perkins, of Focus on the Family fame, shows the uninitiated how to iron man. For those playing along at home, an iron man is a kind of reverse straw man. Instead of weakening an argument so as more easily to defeat it, an … Continue reading
Bishop Godwin
The Pontifical North American College, or whoever is responsible for instructing America's Catholic Priestly class, must offer a course in Godwinism: everyone with whom you have even a minor disagreement is a Nazi. This is a move repugnant even to the most … Continue reading
Posted in General discussion, Religion
Tagged Bishop Jenky, Cardinal Francis George, catholicism, contraception, Godwin's Law
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This is the slippery slope we were talking about
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has identified the cause of the recent scandal involving the Secret Service, prostitutes, and discounts. It turns out that this is the causal or logical result of the breakdown of the moral order. This breakdown … Continue reading
Bend my beliefs
An obvious point (forgive me I've been really busy), but how does one properly evaluate views one finds hateful? Here's Growing Pains' star and banana enthusiast Kirk Cameron: I should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been … Continue reading
Another squirmish* in the culture wars
In the category of self-refuting worries (by now noticed by all of the web), here is disgraced former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich: "I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9," Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. … Continue reading
To every beast of the earth
American Family Association style: One human being is worth more than an infinite number of grizzly bears. Another way to put it is that there is no number of live grizzlies worth one dead human being. If it’s a choice … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Unclassifiable
Tagged American Family Association, Bears, Bryan Fischer, Iraq
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Not the First Amendment I Know
Over at the American Spectator, George Neumayr is arguing that the First Amendment does not protect the building of the "Ground Zero Mosque" or the burning of Korans. The truth is that the First Amendment protects neither the Ground Zero … Continue reading
Term complements
Figuring out of what's the opposite of what is one of those Sesame Street skills that doesn't often get practiced in a critical thinking or logic course. You get a little of this in the logic of terms if you … Continue reading
Posted in Formal Fallacies, Religion, Tony Perkins
Tagged Family Research Council, Gay Marriage, term complements, Tony Perkins
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The Devil went down to Haiti
On behalf of Americans everywhere, I apologize and condemn these remarks: ROBERTSON: [S]omething happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
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