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The idea that it is OK to hate somebody because who they are has gained currency over the last few years. But this comes from the Islamic ...

 Perhaps to help understand the question of moral objectivity better, let's try this question. If one person believes that the earth is ...

For many Christians, it seems to me that politics is all about abortion. They insist that because there are fetuses out there who are being ...

Here.   Apparently this woman, from Oxford, left Singer's lectures with "intellectual vertigo", which drove her eventually to ...

Apparently not.   Or maybe people think that whatever comes from the NY Times can be safely ignored.

Actually, the idea that people who were critical of Columbus were flat-earthers is a well-known historical mistake. Everyone knew the world ...

Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she i...

1. Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and abortion should be legal.  2. Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, but abortion should not be legal.  ...

I have a strong inclination toward these two positions.  1) Abortion is murder.  2) Abortion should be legal.  Which means I think murder sh...

 I think it is a mistake to make the acid-test of whether someone values life whether we are willing to put people who provide abortions in ...

Here.   By Randal Rauser.

Intolerance and political correctness is the poison pill of the political left, the road out from some political viewpoints, many of which I...

Let's do a little history. While he was still an actor, Reagan did recordings for the American Medical Association fearmongering about s...

I could never get affordable, or even any, health insurance until  Obamacare  was passed, since I was diagnosed with a chronic illness at t...

Alan Jackson's famous song is here.   I know where I was. I was in the shower. My wife came in, and I thought she was just trying to tel...

 Let me pose  the general question of when a candidate's moral problems ought to cause a voter either to vote for someone who is further...

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In political discussions, particularly on Facebook, I like to fact-check the claims people make. But some conservatives, goaded on by Trump,...

Gina Dalfonzo, a former writer for Charles Colson's Breakpoint, claims that Christians who support Trump are doing what Nikabrik was doi...