Stephen Hicks y María Marty en PanAm Post: Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo. English and Portuguese versions forthcoming soon. Relacionado por María Marty: “Papa Francisco y la riqueza: ¿Integridad o hipocresía?”
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Stephen Fry was asked: If you were to meet God, what would you say? His answer: “How dare you create a world in which there is such misery?” For that he is being investigated by a government for violating blasphemy laws. In the 21st century. In Europe. On the philosophy: my introductory lecture on the
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Pope Alexander VI knew how to throw a party. Rodrigo Borgia became Alexander VI in 1492 and livened things up at the Vatican. As reported in William Manchester’s A World Lit Only by Fire, p. 79: ‘Once he became Pope Alexander VI, Vatican parties, already wild, grew wilder. They were costly, but he could afford
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Without comment, I offer this excerpt from the Gospel of Thomas (114): Simon Peter said to Jesus, “Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.” Jesus said, “Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself
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A contemporary of Galileo’s in reply to his 1610 discovery of Jupiter’s moons: “There are seven windows given to animals in the domicile of the head. From this and many other similarities in nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven.
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Defeating an enemy such as politicized Islam is a multi-front battle—police, military, diplomatic, cultural, and philosophical. Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists, and others—our conflicts with them are intellectual in origin. Terrorism is
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One-minute video clip: “If my sister rejected Islam, I would reject her. She MUST believe in God.” The #ExMuslim reality, with a sparkling smile. pic.twitter.com/HpxeFzMfva — ExMuslim TV (@ExMuslim_TV) January 29, 2017 As hinted in the clip, honor killings are not far from this. But on the family values issues, Ms. Azariya reminds me of
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A snippet from philosopher Simon Blackburn about a forum on the world’s great religions: “First the Buddhist talked of the ways to calm, the mastery of desire, the path of enlightenment. “The panellists all said, ‘Wow, terrific, if that works for you that’s great.’ “Then the Hindu talked of the cycles of suffering and birth
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