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Can an argument be made  that focusing on consequences produces worse consequences overall than other reasons? For example, the consequences...

Why would someone be moral if they didn't believe in God? For example, it is possible, if there is not God, to literally get away with ...

Repentance means walking back the states of mind the led you to sin. It means setting yourself the task, in Christianity with the aid of the...

 How do you think religion affected Martin Luther King? Was it an accident that he was a reverend, as well as a civil rights leader?  

 The bipartisan bill that Trump turned down had, I think 1.7 million for border security including fencing. But it was considered no good be...

One commentator of Facebook implied  that in accepting the doctrine of the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity in Jesus Christ, ...

Here.   It is based on this statement of Epicurus.    The Epicurean argument was an argument against fearing death. This is the quote: “Deat...

Democracy is supposed to reflect the will of the people. What if the people get together and vote on it, and decide that they want a dictato...

I have always been puzzled by the phrase "I  have a right to my opinion." What does it mean?  ...

I wonder if people are clear on the idea of what human rights are. The idea of human rights is that I am entitled to something in virtue of ...

The movements supporting the rights of women, and the civil rights movements, were started within religious groups. It is not an accident th...

This kind of stuff is going to lose the Democrats a lot of supporters. Even the  LGBTQXYZ community does not benefit from intolerance towar...

While we often discuss moral questions where there seem to be plenty of shades of gray,  there are lots of  moral concerns where most of us ...

When it comes to adultery, we have some people who think that God, (who presumably knows what is right or wrong) has told us not to do it in...

Shouldn't we be making legal immigration less prohibitive, so that fewer people want to cross illegally. Trump wants to make it more pro...

Is there a single shred of evidence in the text that consensual gay activity was ever committed in Sodom? Raping an outside visitor could ea...

People sometimes say that they support legal immigration, but not illegal immigration. What do we mean when we say we support legal immigrat...

Trump in the 2016 campaign said he was very greedy , and implied that his greed is a good thing.  Biblical Christ...

Has there been an increase in illegal immigration? Is this the crisis our government is shutting down over?  The report from the NY Tim...

In teaching philosophy, I have from time to time been asked whether the enterprise am teaching is a matter of fact or opinion. Or, when stu...