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“How to Save Gaza”
Cassandra Hedelius has brought this piece to my attention, which seems to me a reasonable approach to the problem — and to represent the kind of rational reflection on the current crisis (including criticism of Israel) that overblown allusions to “genocide” and “Auschwitz” tend to drown out: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_an...
Auschwitz? “Genocide” in Gaza?
As I’ve said before, governments — all governments — have three absolutely basic and fundamental responsibilities to their citizens. All governments do other things on top of these, of course — many of them things that, in my view, they do badly, and many of them things that, even if they do them [Read More...]
“Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction, study finds”
This item is giving significant aid and comfort — not to mention laughter and a gratifying sense of vindication — to those who insist that either (a) religious people are religious because they can’t tell reality from fantasy or (b) religious people can’t tell reality from fantasy because faith has crippled their minds [Read More...]
“The attack on Christians in the Middle East”
A situation that really demands attention: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/... For the record, I do not agree that the Qur’an, properly understood, mandates or even permits forced conversion. The matter of Pope Benedict XVI’s famous speech at the University of Regensburg is, however, more complex. He was arguing at a very high conceptual [Read More...]
“Too good to be false”
A somewhat long but quite thought-provoking and original defense of the reliability of the New Testament gospels: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives...
July 22, 2014
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