Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Clayton M. Christensen, with a hat-tip to the Brother-In-Law.
If the phrase “moral reasoning” means anything at all, it has to have something to do with the capacity to say: “I personally do not like this prohibition or requirement, but I shall abide by it anyway.” The secular types insist that morality doesn’t require religion. They’re right, but their version of morality falls short of the functionality, it’s skeletal, doesn’t include the reasoning aspect. It is purely “make it up as I go along,” it’s right if I say it’s right, each subscriber to the moral code is his own final arbiter. “Yes, of course that’s right!” “That seems wrong!”
How else could it be decided?
They miss out on the true issue, fail to distinguish between want of a straight-edge and want of the pen. Yeah sure kids, you can draw lines. But where? And consistent with what?
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Madison: …a government for a moral people
Tracy: …. a government for adults
We tossed the first one out on day one and haven’t had the second one since liberals became Leftists…
- tracycoyle | 04/28/2015 @ 18:39I note that the countries that have made the most serious goes at driving religion from the public square also have had the largest, most powerful and most paranoia-inducing (and paranoid) police agencies. And even they haven’t been entirely successful. See mainland China. For that matter, see North Korea.
- Rich Fader | 04/28/2015 @ 22:54Let us not forget that leftism, too, is a religion, and that it began that way.
Remember, Marx thought Communist man would be moral, because History.
No, really. It’s science.
- Severian | 04/29/2015 @ 05:17For years I have tried to explain to my Democrat (and increasingly fascist liberal) friends the relationships between ancient religions and the rare fanatics and modern liberal political thought and the massive growth of fanatical worship of liberal ideology. They tend to narrowly focus on the fact that its a form of “political” thought versus established religious thought, despite all the obvious parallels, and will worry that argument like a puppy on a rag doll. That usually sets them up for a fantastic comparison with the rise of the National Socialist party, Italian Fascists and the formation of the Ahnenerbe and their parallels with liberal intolerance and academic dishonesty today. That’s the point where they typically break down, shrieking no, No, NO with their fingers in their ears and their wide eyes searching for a comforting HuffPo passage they can recite over and over in a mantra until they feel they have earned their penance.
- P_Ang | 04/29/2015 @ 08:13Hmm…comment is awaiting moderation. In the words of Sergio Aragones’ Groo…”did I err?”
- P_Ang | 04/29/2015 @ 08:21P_Ang,
I think it’s the F word (that ends in -ascist). My comments get hung up with that one, too, and since I use it a lot….
Love the mention of the Ahnenerbe, by the way. “College or Nazi?” has been one of my favorite drinking games for years. Where, for example, are you likelier to find lectures called “Race and Education,” “Race and Art,” etc. — a course for Higher SS and Police Leaders, or any freshman Humanities seminar at any college in America? Good times.
- Severian | 04/29/2015 @ 13:31