Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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Taking a break for lunch. Will go back to the precinct in an hour. A quick post to let you know why Hillary Clinton might pull it off in today’s Texas primary. The polls show that the race here is tight as a drum but a bit of right wing mischief may tilt the balance…
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I am writing this as a follow up to Sujatha’s post below. Readers can leave a note of protest against such inhumane and unethical treatment of animals here. Also, if you wish, please make a donation to the Humane Society to help with the campaign against cruelty to all animals, including factory farmed animals used…
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The Clinton campaign is crying foul and whining that the Democratic Party’s rules for deciding the presidential nominee are not fair. Mind you, Hillary and her operational crew are not questioning the fairness of the rules in abstract but only as they apply to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which many now fear will fail unless she…
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Abbas Raza, editor of 3 Quarks Daily, recounts three tales of major and minor horror in The Smart Set. All are first person accounts; they variously involve a case of mistaken identity, a pompously pious immigration official, the unexpected outcome of making an illegal left turn on a Manhattan street and some terrifying hours spent…
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A little over three months ago, I described the weird case (and the lawsuit) involving an anonymous blogger from Texas who used the handle Frank Pasquale for posting at his own site where among other things, he writes about problems in our health care system, particularly those involving the Paris Regional Medical Center, a hospital…
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It’s not just the Israelis and Palestinians who form the feuding factions in the Holy Land. Territorial aggression among Christian priests who tend some of the holiest sites of Christianity is legendary. In this season of peace, a vicious donnybrook erupted on Thursday between Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic priests in the Church of Nativity…
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I rarely find myself on the same page with Charles Krauthammer’s positions regarding politics. But his recent editorials sounding the alarm bell about an "Overdose of Public Piety" (another one here) had me nodding my head enthusiastically in agreement. In fact Krauthammer’s no-nonsense summary reflects much more closely my own stance on the distinction between…
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Many religious people make the mistake of conflating morality with religion when in reality the two are separate things. While religion needs morality as a selling point for its propagation and raison d’être, the converse is not true. (Think Mother Teresa and her tortured life and death) The current crop of holy rollers running for…
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