Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism
Occasional commentator to AOI blog and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith warns in a recent article that, “society’s belief in the unique moral value and importance of human life is under unprecedented assault…Most people still believe in human exceptionalism and are unaware that powerful social and cultural forces are working diligently to dismantle the…
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OCL Fall Annual Meeting Calls for Reasonable and Prayerful Involvement of Clergy, Laity and Hierarchy in the process of Creating a Unified Orthodox Church in North America
Press Release Orthodox Christian Laity November 7, 2009 Contact: George Matsoukas – 877-585-0245 The end result of the 22nd Annual Meeting of Orthodox Christian Laity held at Ligonier, PA , October 28-31, 2009, including board meeting and program meeting, is that the work of creating a Unified Orthodox Christian Church in North America requires the…
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2qq5J5A1s[/youtube] Twenty years ago today. The following is from “The Origin of Russian Communism” by Nicholas Berdyaev (published by Geoffrey Bles, 1937): Marxism is not only a doctrine of historical and economic materialism, concerned with the complete dependence of man on economics, it is also a doctrine of deliverance, of the messianic vocation of the…
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