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Way to undermine the idea that respect for human dignity isn't contingent on agreeing with someone's outlook.

Burrow: If your approval of someone relies on them not being homosexual then you are, by definition, discriminating against them based on sexual orientation. There are no ifs or buts; ...

I think my other big problem with the pledge is the way it conflates principles with institutions. Consider the words "to the Republic...liberty and Justice for all" What about when ...

Alternatively, the fact that they were introduced for the purpose of rote repetition, rather than significant theological exegesis, might indicate that any significant religious content that might oth

As an Australian, I find the entire idea of the pledge bizarre, and more about beating the drum of nationalism and tracking down dissidents than any real establishment of a ...

The definitions I used were neither perfect, nor exhaustive, and I don't pretend to have a complete understanding of the LDS Church or its teachings. I generally consider accusations of ...

Let's work off some basic and accessible definitions, and avoid a theological discussion that I'm guessing would get derailed pretty quickly. Christianity: "the religion based on the person and teachi

Unfortunately, the application of the No True Scotsman fallacy is so error-prone in relation to religious groups that it deserves its own sub-fallacy. I might actually write something on it ...

One of the reasons we say correlation doesn't imply causation is that we often have intuitions about the direction of the causation that simply don't pan out, which is why ...

Dear Barack Hussein Obama, In 2008 slightly more than half of America voted for you because they thought you were Black Jesus. In 2008 slightly less than half of America ...

My father was recently (i.e, 2 weeks ago) involuntarily detained because of an ongoing manic episode that's the result of living with bipolar, and the particular stresses of being involved ...

Well at least no-one's set a lure for an overplayed flame war regarding the almost entirely unrelated, and incredibly-complex-to-the-point-of-inevitably-misunderstood subject of religious education in

I think it's less about "little girls shouldn't dress up as princesses and we should stop them" and more about "in practice, within our political community, we shouldn't operate under ...

mtDNA testing places the origins of the domestication of the dog at least 33,000 years ago, indicating that humans had managed to create in at least a basic enough social ...

One of my mentors from my time at university recently published an article with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that hits a lot of the notes that have been gestured towards ...