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I once took a class taught by a philosopher. It was entitled “Early Western History,” which was a damn dirty bit of untruth in advertising. Early Western History is hardly the exclusive story of philosophers.
But my main gripe with the philosopher is that he tore down everything I find holy and good in the world. [...]
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I’ve been getting a lot of flak recently for a post in which I argue for conservatism using tradition. People just hate that I apply to such a despicable thing as tradition in arguing for my values. Honestly, can’t you come up with anything better?
Differences between hardcore liberals and hardcore conservatives boil down to individual [...]
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So we’ve established that for believers, God explains a part of life that is seemingly contrary to the human ideal, i.e. unfairness. For believers, God settles the accounts in the end, because life as we know it is but a small part of our total existence.
For atheists, the job of squaring accounts is settled by [...]
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I got into a knock-down, drag-out with an atheist liberal over his accusation that conservatives tend to believe in God because they do not think critically for themselves.
But he’s got the direction of causality all wrong. Believers are conservatives because of their belief, ceteris paribus. Not the other way around. It’s because a particularity of [...]
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In which I define liberalism for a liberal:
Ben:
We are not discussing things like driving on the right side of the road. We are discussing political issues and values.
Also, you seem to be mistaking liberalism for anarchy.
Throughout the years, conservatism has endorsed things like slavery, segregation, homophobia, and prayer in school. It’s an aggressive, oppressive version [...]
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In which I respond to a post arguing that conservatism is “unnatural.”
Now, not all conservatives are theists/Christians, but it’s a safe bet to say that almost all of them are. It’s hard to justify homophobia and the like without some form of divine sponsorship.
I think atheists tend to be liberal because conservatism is a bit [...]
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I love conspiracy people. I have a professor here at WashU who studies the economic causes of conspiracy. I think people are uncomfortable with the idea that no single person controls thing; they like to know that someone did it. Today, the Army did it:
Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, and the Bush Administration manipulated the telling [...]
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Tonight I had some fabulous luck. I decided to head on down to Busch Stadium to watch the Cards and Reds duke it out. Now Brian and I stood in standing room till the bottom of the second, when two lovely young ladies came like manna from heaven and presented us with free tickets to [...]
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I heard a country song the other day:
I met a guy on the red eye
He spotted my guitar
and said what do you do?
I said, I sing for a living,
Country music mixed with
a little rock and a little blues
He said I’m sorry
but I’ve never been crazy
’bout that twang and trains and hillbilly thing
What ever made you [...]
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I just bought a book by Mark Steyn. I’m not finished with it yet, but the basic premise is that multiculturalism and falling birth rates will lead to an Islamic society across what used to be the Western world. And this is a bad thing.
While I’m not going to talk about how much I agree [...]
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