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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:27:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:27:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6949 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From First Thoughts by Wesley J. Smith: Peter Singer Sympathetic to Human Extinction as Way of Avoiding Suffering Peter Singer blogs at the New York Times about a new book (Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, by David Benetar) that apparently advocates human extinction as a way of preventing human […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/podcast-the-animal-rights-movement-from-an-orthodox-perspective/ https://www.aoiusa.org/podcast-the-animal-rights-movement-from-an-orthodox-perspective/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:20:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6101 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Human exceptionalism advocate and author Wesley J. Smith speaks with host Kevin Allen about the animal rights-animal liberation movement and its insistence on the “moral equivalence” between animals and humans! How does this compare with Orthodox teachings about the “brotherhood” of humans, animals and inanimate nature (St Gregory Palamas)? Listen and find out ! Listen […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/podcast-the-animal-rights-movement-from-an-orthodox-perspective/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-unless-we-all-matter/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-unless-we-all-matter/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:45:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5857 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Source “God loves each of us, as if there were only one of us.” – St. Augustine. If you want to accurately predict what could soon go wrong in society, just read the professional journals.  Case in point: A bioethicist named Alasdair Cochrane, a deep thinker at the Centre for the Study of Human […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-unless-we-all-matter/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/4518/ https://www.aoiusa.org/4518/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:00:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4518 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/4518/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/ https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:35:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2011 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Wesley Smith, occasional commentator on AOI blog published the is article on To the Source. Visit Smith’s blog Second Hand Smoke. When Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic 1932 novel Brave New World, he envisioned a dystopian future in which mankind would become, in the words of bioethicist Leon Kass, “so dehumanized that he doesn’t even […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-orthodox-advocate-for-human-%e2%80%9cexceptionalism%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-orthodox-advocate-for-human-%e2%80%9cexceptionalism%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:08:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1443 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Our culture is at a crossroad about the value of human life, argues author and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith in an interview with Kevin Allen on the “Illumined Heart” podcast (Ancient Faith Radio). Do we value human life simply because it is human, or do we value it based on notions and definitions […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-orthodox-advocate-for-human-%e2%80%9cexceptionalism%e2%80%9d/feed/ 1