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It can be a bit of a dilemma. I take down defamatory comments when I catch them — e.g., from the guy who hides behind religious-sounding pseudonyms but wants to use the combox to defame other people by name and then calls me a “coward” for deleting him. I want normal people of whatever view…

Here’s a poignant footnote to our discussion of whether, for atheists, there can be meaning in life without reference to a transcendent reality.  Jewlicious praises a rebranding campaign by the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, quoting in turn a Jewish Telegraphic Agency blog, the Fundermentalist, about Jewish philanthropy. This enormous community organization, the L.A. Federation, canvassed…

Melanie Phillips has another terrific post about the “Secular Inquisition” being waged on behalf of Darwinism. When will they start stoning Intelligent Design advocates? She begins this way: The response to my post below on Intelligent Design has provided illuminating and revealing evidence of the ignorance, confusion, distortions, irrationality and malice that characterise this debate.…

From Iran comes news that a 30-year-old man convicted of adultery has been stoned to death while his partner in “crime” was spared on account of her having repented. The Reuters story notes: According to Iran’s Islamic penal code, men convicted of adultery should be buried up to their waists and women up to their…
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