Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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I have previously spoken out about the need for safe and sensible measures to promote womens’s reproductive health and the immeasurable harm done to progress in this field by meddlesome religious bigots. Two of my angrier comments are here and here. This morning at Leiter Reports, I came across yet another evidence of the foolish and…
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Came across this extraordinary, prescient piece written by Rabindranath Tagore – Asia’s first Nobel laureate. Tagore’s observations came during his travels through the middle east in the 1930’s when he witnessed the bombing of an Iraqi village by British imperial forces. Tagore’s insightful humanity and intimate knowledge of imperialism ( which enables men to view…
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“The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf (1925) And the most egregious lies through human history have been told in the name of god and religion. Greed, exploitation, domination and aggression – all otherwise unattractive traits, gain societal sanction…
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At the annual Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinnner last month, Dick Cheney assumed the role of the humorist in chief. Without a trace of irony or shame he poked fun at the hunting accident in which he shot his friend, Harry Whittington. In the looming shadow of the failing and bloody Iraq war for which…
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We know well about the outsourcing of glittering hi-tech jobs to India and manufacturing ones to China. The justification is the easy availablity of well trained, hardworking, disciplined labor forces willing to work for less than the average worker in the west. What is less well known is that these hugely populous nations, with large…
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A bit late in the day, Pat Robertson (the gift that keeps giving to us bloggers) has weighed in on the Danish cartoons. Calling Muslims "Satanic" and bent on world domination, he said the following on his TV show, the 700 Club: [He] said that the outpouring of rage elicited by cartoons "just shows the…
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Did you know there’s a National Center for Men? Well apparently there is, and it’s backing the lawsuit (filed in U.S. District Court in Michigan) of Matt Dubay, who doesn’t want to pay child support. The NCM even has a website and a press release about this absurdity. In the AP story linked to above,…
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I have always suspected that for the misogynists in the anti-abortion movement, banning abortion is not so much about saving the life of an unborn child as it is about punishing the pregnant woman. If abortion is an outcome they frown upon, one would think that they would be in favor of making all means…
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In a recent post, Dadahead asks how many wars have been launched based truly on "humanitarian" concerns and how often has that been an excuse to cover up ulterior motives? Dada says: "One of the more dangerous ideas that goes unchallenged by mainstream liberals and conservatives alike is the right of the United States to…
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When it comes to family values, god, religion and anti-gay rhetoric, Republicans get away with some of the most outrageous utterances – see here. A few gems from a large collection. Bailey Smith"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." Bob Dornan (Rep.…
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I wrote this at my blog a day or two ago, and I’m going to reproduce it here–it sparked a couple of interesting comments, and I suspect Ruchira has a larger readership than I do: In light of this story, Tigtog poses this question: Should men who are not soldiers be held to the same…
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I haven’t seen this reported by the mainstream media anywhere, which is troubling because (a) there’s supposed to be a "liberal media bias" (if you listen to the conservatives, that is), and (b) I think it’s a big deal. And yes, I glance over Google News and CNN (among other newspapers/sites) fairly frequently. I have…
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I’m not about to assert a causality in this specific situation, because undoubtedly it’s complicated and I don’t have all the facts. For example, his room is adorned with swastikas–of course Hitler was a Christian, too. But as a general rule, the Christian right’s religion (interpreted "correctly" or not) tells them that gay people are…
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Funny how hateful people without a sense of humor always ask those who’ve offended them to apologize. When a group of evangelical filmmakers make a film about American missionaries killed by an indigenous tribe, whose relatives later convert and befriend the tribe, other evangelicals jump for joy, right? Wrong, when the filmmakers have the temerity…
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