by E.O. | May 27, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
It is not good to over-value national loyalty, as nations are in many ways artificial, with moral foundations built on compromise and force. But to under-value national loyalty is to threaten a nation’s existence, making it prey to parasites from within or tyrants on...
by E.O. | May 26, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“All human cloning must be banned. There are those who argue that cloning can be sanctioned for medical experimentation, for so-called therapeutic purposes. No matter what promise this might hold—all of which we note is speculative—it is morally offensive since it...
by E.O. | May 25, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
by E.O. | May 24, 2025 | Quotes and Quips
“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” – George Herbert
by E.O. | May 23, 2025 | Heaven
Many Christians support the idea of everlasting torment of the wicked on the basis that the threat of it drives people into the arms of Christ. Let’s call it the “scared straight” argument. Jonathan Edwards famously used the strategy in his sermons. “The God...
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