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Many people today consider government regulation to be a necessary evil. Without government overseeing greedy corporations, the thinking goes, attention to quality, and especially safety, will degrade. It is assumed that government is the only entity with the ability and motivation to look out for the interests of everyone. To help illustrate how faulty the [...]
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Sam Harris, in his book “The Moral Landscape”, defines good as that which moves away from “the worst possible misery”. Once we conceive of “the worst possible misery for everyone” then we can talk about taking incremental steps towards this abyss. -Sam Harris, Moral Landscape, pg 39 While listening to Sam’s opening speech in his [...]
Last week my daughter graduated kindergarten. My wife and I decided to send her to public school figuring “what’s the worst she could pick up at such a young age?”. Apparently we were a tad naive. Here are some of the things my daughter learned this year in her kindergarten class: Green ideology My daughter [...]
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Brian McLaren, a rockstar pastor in California, describes “A New Kind of Christianity”. However when he’s done deconstructing every central tenet of Christinaity as defined by Scripture, its quite clear that what he’s really offering is something completely different he’s calling Christianity.
From a comment on Reddit: If libertarians believe that government allowing same-sex marriage is in fact an expansion of government, they should also support the abolition of government-allowed opposite-sex marriage in an attempt to reduce the imposition of government into our lives. I do not see any explanation in this article as to why endorsing [...]
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Even if you dislike Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy of objectivism, and her subsequent exaltation of free market capitalism, you should appreciate this movie. Atlas Shrugged is about everything that Hollywood is currently against and as a result needed to be privately funded for $10 million. A fraction of the cost of what most A-list actors [...]
Healthcare is not a right. Since that sentiment has been shared quite a bit by itself, allow me to elaborate. To say something is a right is is to obligate others to perform services and provide goods in accord with that right, otherwise the right is stripped of its meaning. Traditionally rights have been seen [...]
It appears that Rob holds what Francis Schaeffer described as a two story model of knowing where in the upper story we have faith (what Bell calls “3D objects”) and the lower story which contains science, reason and all that jazz. So how about it? Is it possible for a person living in flatland to [...]
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