Christian Philosophy: Starting from the absurd in order, by precisely regimented steps, to reach the most absurd.
Pride: Unwillingness to accept the absurd beginnings of Christian philosophy (and, therefore, not to accept what is most absurd, either).
Immortal Soul: The metaphysical ball and chain that liars of all ages would like to tie [...]

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(from www.democracynow.org)
“In South Dakota, state legislators voted Wednesday to ban all abortions unless they?re performed to save the life of the woman. The New York Times notes the law makes South Dakota ?the first state in 14 years to start a direct legal attack on Roe v. Wade.? Some abortion opponents said the vote was [...]

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Speaking of a rational man who became “a city of demons,” Edgar Allan Poe comes to mind. I just read a brief entry regarding his life and found this amazingly superficial interpretation of his disintegration:
“In 1836 Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm. She burst a blood vessel in 1842, and remained a virtual [...]

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The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.
–Czeslaw Milosz (from Ars Poetica)

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So we can draw insulting cartoons of Muslim prophets and print them in a bunch of major media forums. . . that’s ok. That’s free speech. But when someone challenges popular notions regarding the Holocaust . . . that’s a hate crime, and that person has to go to jail for 3 years. [...]

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(from here)
“Al-Qaida and other Islamic extremist groups have poisoned the Muslim public’s view of the United States through deft use of the Internet and other modern communications methods that the American government has failed to master, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.”
False. The American government has poisoned the Muslim public’s view of the [...]

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