Showing posts with label atheism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atheism. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

The Natural, The Supernatural, And The Arguments

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     I hadn’t intended to write anything today, but I just had an encounter with something both brilliant and concise. When you find those t...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Natural Laws And Divine Benevolence

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     Long, long ago, on a Thanksgiving weekend far behind us, I wrote a brief piece for the old Palace of Reason in which I gave thanks for...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

A Negative-Sum Game Part 2: Some Non-Ruminative Thoughts

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     If you’ve read this earlier piece, you’re already familiar with the aggrieved puzzlement I feel over the phenomenon of the militant at...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

A Negative-Sum Game: A Sunday Rumination

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     Welcome, Gentle Reader, to the Feast of Christ the King. It falls on the last Sunday of the Catholic liturgical year, which is immediat...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Fools

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     According to the late Barbara Tuchman, folly – the course followed by a fool – consists in knowing better but nevertheless doing worse...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Quickies: An Unusual Connectedness Problem

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     I’ve often used the phrase connectedness problem to describe a situation where two instances of pernicious government activity reinfor...
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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Enough Is Enough: A Sunday Tirade

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     I have had it with supercilious militant atheists. It’s time to start awarding them the backs of our hands – figuratively, at least.  ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Mental Vacua

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     As with an increasing number of useful quotes and aphorisms, I’m unsure where this one originated, though it has a Chestertonian flavor...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

The Prideful: A Highly Personal Tirade

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Probably my worst failing -- definitely my most persistent one -- is pugnacity. Eagerness to blow the bugles and charge into battle ill bec...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Propositions (UPDATED 12/24/2013)

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Yes, you get two essays today. Christmas is almost upon us, and as usual at this time of year, the Militant Evangelistic Atheists (MEA) are...