Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Jacobse. Philadelphia: The Cost of Equivocation
Why such outrage over the Philadelphia abortionist? What moral difference is there between severing the spinal cord of a newborn with a pair of scissors and dismembering a baby with a scalpel a few moments before its birth? There isn’t any. Yet the outcry over the brutality indicates that the fiction of viability may be…
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Malkin: The Philadelphia Horror
Source National Review Online By Michelle Malkin Let’s give the “climate of hate” rhetoric a rest for a moment. It’s time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing language, and a callous disregard for life have numbed America to its monstrous consequences. Consider the Philadelphia…
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Secretariat of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops Convenes First Meeting
We Orthodox, given our penchant for talking, might take heart at this statement in the report below: “The question of communications was also discussed. Those present acknowledged the fact that the Orthodox faith is not well-known to the media and public, and that heretofore has been largely unable to speak with a unified voice. It…
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Mohler: “Now it is the Other Way Around” — The Moral Revolution in Full View
The only Orthodox leaders I hear talking in these terms are the Russians, Pat. Kyrill and Met. Hilarion specifically. Does anyone know of any other? Source: AlbertMohler.com By Albert Mohler This decision serves as yet another sign of how swiftly the moral revolution is happening all around us. The breathtaking pace of the moral revolution…
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New European Union school calendar omits Christian holidays
So we are supposed to believe that omitting the Christian holidays was a mistake? Source: Catholic News Agency | HT: Monomakhos Strasbourg, France, Jan 14, 2011 / 02:11 pm (CNA).- A 2011-2012 school calendar published by the European Union has omitted Christian holidays, while continuing to note important Jewish and Muslim celebrations. The European Union…
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