Also, sexually explicit material. This story caught my eye, because I haven’t gotten around to reading the book, and I’ve long wondered if, when asked why their theology says Anne Frank is in Hell right now, they would have to mumble something vague about “we’re all sinners,” or would be able to cite things from [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Apparently, Anne Frank’s diary contains “homosexual themes”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 31, 2010
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Crappy sex-phobic arguments
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 30, 2010
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One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers wrote in to lecture him on the evils of masturbation, saying, “The main sin is that masturbation (with minuscule exception) involves fantasy which is a distortion or absence of reality. In other words, it is a lie.” Can you say give me a fucking break? The idea that fantasy is [...]
Luke on reformed epistemology and moral realism
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 26, 2010
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In his blogging, Luke of Common Sense Atheism has made some fairly harsh, and largely unexplained, swipes at reformed epistemology (Alvin Plantinga’s project of trying to show we can accept Christian doctrine without any argument or evidence for doing so), saying things like “reformed epistemology is neither” and that it is a “Candidate for ‘Dumbest [...]
The fragility of free speech
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 25, 2010
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So: a non-profit puts out a documentary critical of a presidential candidate. The government tries to stop it. It’s a no-brainer that what the government is doing is wrong, right? Well, that’s what the Supreme Court thought, but I’m dismayed to see a couple of my favorite bloggers disagreeing: Vjack said that this decision makes [...]