February 2008

Life is suffering because Darwinian evolution is blind. To speak metaphorically, as if to personalize a blind force, “it doesn’t care” about human happiness. It just is.

I wish they could be rehabilitated to eliminate their sense of shame, their superstition, their desire for external redemption, take responsibility for their own choices, and and join the “brotherhood of man.”

Christians can’t win with apologetics, according to Fraser. The only way to win is not to play, and to be content with the personal experience of God.

How is it that in a country where separation of church and state is Constitutionally mandatory, that we can’t find other public places to cast our votes?

People used to joke that the Soviet Union was “a third world country with rockets.” Now it looks like Iran is the first medieval theocracy to earn a similar distinction.

Morality is indeed a social construct, but it is one that is strongly grounded in human nature. It does vary from culture to culture, but there are still a broad range of human universals.