Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
I’ve been in lots of disputes and debates over the years about Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia and Islamic jihadism.
In every case I will be lectured by well-meaning libertarians and leftists who say that the world is simply bubbling over with calm, moderate Muslims who are lumped into the jihadist set by ignorant Islamophobes who believe only [...]
So I had a dream.
In real life the Cosmic Daughter is about to graduate college, and the Cosmic Son is about to graduate from high school. And I haven’t been in college at all since about 1986.
In the dream I was taking college classes, and the Cosmic Daughter was too, but the Cosmic Son [...]
Everyone knows that I am a firmly committed agnostic when it comes to theology, but on occasion I entertain the arguments for and against the existence of a supreme deity that created the universe and all that is in it.
Today, as I was preparing and eating my breakfast I think I hit upon the strongest [...]
I assume all of my readers are familiar with the story of Prometheus. In Greek mythology Prometheus was a Titan, one of the race which preceded the Gods of Olympus, but who survived the battle between Zeus and Cronos when Zeus and his siblings overthrew the Titans (as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them).
In [...]
So I’ve been thinking about life in general lately. I’m about to go on vacation and the first thing we will do when we land in Kentucky is head to a funeral. Those things always tend to focus your mind on your own life, for at least a few minutes. Also I had the experience [...]
I’ve been engaged in some discussions about the nature of government, the obligations of citizens and the future of this country, and some of those thoughts might bear repeating here so that others can contemplate and comment on them.
What obligations does a citizen have towards the welfare of other citizens? Is the concept of “do [...]
You are looking at the oldest known human-built structure. This monolith and wall is part of a temple complex recently uncovered in Turkey that is 7,000 years older than the Pyramids, 6,000 years older than Stonehenge, and according to our current understanding of human cultural progression, older than agriculture by almost a thousand years, and [...]
So everyone should know by now that Pat Robertson blamed the Haiti earthquake on God’s retribution for a supposed Haitian pact with Satan that was supposedly done back in the 18th century, and Danny Glover blamed it on an angry Gaia venting her anger over the lack of progress made in Copenhagen’s UN climate meetings.
I’ve [...]
Apparently there are a significant number of people who have seen the movie “Avatar” and who have been unable to deal with the daily reality of our imperfect earth after beholding the utopian stone-age depiction of plug-and-play aliens internonnected through an organic worldwide web.
(CNN) — James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a [...]
Lirak is the protagonist in the novel I have been not writing for the past week. Anyway, I’ve been looking for a month to find a knife that matches what I had in my head writing the story. This is by far the closest thing I’ve found, so I purchased it last night.
No, I won’t [...]
Slobbering, fawning, sycophantic, lap-dog press update number whatever…
Is Obama More Catholic Than the Pope? | Newsweek Religion | Newsweek.com Tomorrow Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama meet for the first time, an affair much anticipated and in some circles frowned upon by American Catholics in the wake of Obama’s controversial Notre Dame commencement speech in [...]
Drax, in another post, presented is skepticism that human culture could have suddenly “Exploded” from stone-age neanderthal-like beginnings, into complex societies which exhibit a full range of language, art, tools and culture. This was in response to a documentary he watched on TV about how neanderthal and “cro-magnon” cultures co-existed at more or less the [...]
In the context of the discussion around the “right” of Iran to have nuclear power, the question of the actual existence of human rights has come up. Since that is a more abstract and fundamental question than the narrow context of nuclear power (and weapons), I decided to create a new post to discuss whether [...]
From the Christian Science Monitor…
The coming evangelical collapse | csmonitor.com Oneida, Ky. – We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
Within two generations, [...]
I’ve been having a particularly troublesome bout of profunditosis lately. Profunditosis is that ailment which periodically causes me to ponder deeply difficult questions such as “why are we here?” or “What is free will” or, as in this case, “What is it that keeps everything from just being in the same place at the same [...]
I love these sorts of photos. This is a fairly typical example of a photo of the sun’s progressive position in the sky at the same time of day over the course of a year. This is one of those things that most members of ancient cultures would recognize immediately, and most modern people would [...]
The novel I put down almost two years ago is a fantasy story which involves extensive use of magic as part of the plot. This is true of most fantasy novels. But it is usually the way that magic is described and used in a story that I find to be the weakest part of [...]
Bill Maher and his sidekick, Larry Charles, have a new movie opening in theaters this Friday – ‘Religulous’. I view it as just another salvo in the secular Left’s war against faith. It’s a common meme in today’s world and I really wouldn’t have an issue with it (atheists are entitled to their [...]
I’m not much of a numerologist. I know some people who are, and who ascribe mystical powers to numerical coincidences. There are a lot of reasons I don’t get into such things, but the most compelling reason I don’t is because dates and times are purely arbitrary things that humans have overlaid on the uncaring [...]
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