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Implicit in the blank-slate take on religion is the idea that religious faith may be diminished simply by changing the type of cultural inputs people receive.
Judah’s men were not gentle souls.
Knox found the fortitude to survive her crucible and the talent to start over. Hers is a voice I will definitely be waiting to hear more of.
Both claim to not believe in some God who literally exists as an independent being. Both believe that a proper conception of God engenders support for the individual and personal freedom.
The Court’s decision therefore constitutes a clear and present danger to the emerging consensus that blasphemy laws are incompatible with international human rights law.
So the Christian Right, one of society’s most formidable voting blocs, is shaped to a significant degree by charismatic Christian personalities, politically-active conservative organizations, and right-wing media.
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
We won’t find moral objectivity in ever-shifting claims about divine revelations.
But it has been entirely exorcised, emptied of soul and Christianity, respecting only the machine underneath.
Europeans challenged their own religion during the Enlightenment, and we’re all benefiting from their efforts today. But when non-Europeans want to do the same, it’s ‘Islamophobia’?
If you’ve ever heard Peterson discuss the subject or read either of his books, the answers he provided in Vancouver will not surprise you.
The problem is that Peterson is claiming that the Bible endorses the same idea of effectual personhood that he does.
Source of conflict between the two best-selling authors was the extent of white privilege, and the question of how it should be accounted for in public debate
“For a tiny minority, it is about the bloodlust of the battlefield,” she says. “However, for the majority, Islamists operate through nonviolence.
Every industry in Kuwait is bloated with salaried, citizen employees who pick and choose their working schedules.