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128 Million Bigots (Including Your Mother): Gmarriage By The Numbers. Updates

Your Mother Is Evil Latest Gallup survey showed about 40% of citizens did not support gmarriage. According to gmarriage supporters, those who oppose gmarriage are bigots. Since mostly older people…

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Stream: Why Gmarriage Is Worse Than You Think

Today's post is at The Stream: Why Gmarriage is Worse than You Think: The government can only reinvent marriage when we believe that men can be gods. Before we begin,…

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Gmarriage Open Thread

Sheri was right. Yesterday was the last day of class. Today, I leave it to you to fill in the blanks. Yesterday, the USA joined Mexico which earlier this week…

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What Causes Democracies To Incline Towards Pantheism

Wrapping up class. I'll be on the Bill Meyer Show today at 11:10 AM ET. He's a Medford, man. Medford, Oregon. (Let he who readeth understand.) This will keep up…

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The Stream: The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis

Today's post is at The Stream, "The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis: The scientist who influenced Laudato Si, and who serves at the Vatican's science office, seems to believe…

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How Government Beneficence Hurts The Poor

Editor says: Note the author's name. The Poor in America have had less-favored status for a while. Sure, there are food stamps, low-income housing, transfer payments, and some kind of…

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Laudato Si’: How To Live?

First, an update. Mid-way through the class. Keeps me busy from dawn to dark every day. And I'm taking advantage of the libraries while I'm here. I have hundreds of…

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The Stream: Laudato Si on the Science of Global Warming

Today's post is at The Stream. Laudato Si on the Science of Global Warming: Loud and Clear and Mistaken. In a recent meeting Pope Francis held with priests in Rome's…

Heresolong on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Unfortunately I don't have any more details. It just stopped working. Oh well. Substance mirror works though so I'll just…
BDavi52 on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 25, 2024
Rudolph H. Sounds like a wonderful solution to the 'life makes me anxious' problem. AI tells me what to do...and…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Paul, Just like math, like analytics. No experimental debunking.
Paul murphy on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
I have not read Smith, but stand by my general assertion that metaphysics is much much easier than physics. Hey…
Briggs on RIP Wolfgang Smith: Philosopher, Scientist, CatholicJuly 25, 2024
Heresolong, I have no idea why. Can you provide more detail? You can also try the Substack mirror: https://wmbriggs.substack.com/