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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Easter: a season for apologetic clichés
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 12, 2009
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For all those wondering: my book on the resurrection of Jesus is coming out as soon as a few last-minute things like the indexing are finished. But as I do my regular rounds of blog reading, I’ve noticed that this puts me in an odd position: there are lots of standard talking point out there [...]
Rick Warren fails at the information age?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 10, 2009
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Last year in the run-up to the inauguration, Rick Warren got caught lying about his views on homosexuality, and also got caught in some incoherent babbling about hate speech in the bargain. So, when a bunch of bloggers (including Greta, Hemant, Andrew, and Ed, to list just the bloggers I read regularly) posted that Warren [...]
Polygamny, and Other Places our Society is Headed
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 10, 2009
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Last Friday, my girlfriend and I went to a show at a local bar. We didn’t know when the thing was starting so we ended up arriving way early. When we got there, among the very few people there was a group of one guy and two girls. The girls, I learned, were his fiancé [...]
What Socrates Really Said: a Reply to David Brooks
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 9, 2009
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Will Wilkinson, Massimo Pigliucci, and Mark Liberman have all been beating up on David Brooks’ recent column on philosophy and moral psychology. Will’s post, especially, is great, because it nabs the general formula Brooks’ columns seem to be taking, but all the posts miss the biggest flaw in Brooks’ argument. See how he opens it: [...]