Do you ever feel living your Christian faith is like fighting a battle? Do you feel constantly attacked from the world around you and perhaps from within as well? Do you feel worn out, almost ready to give up? The Scriptures this week address the reality of being persecuted because of our faith in God...
Read more: God is the strength of his people ~ Catholic Exchange
Tom Wolfe, in his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, explores the connection between the mind-brain reductionism of contemporary neuroscience and sociobiology and the moral depravity rampant on contemporary college and university campuses. Philosophical materialists who reviewed the book were, by and large, unimpressed by the idea that mind-brain reductionism should lead to the libertinism endemic to contemporary campus life. But Wolfe, who is generally more prescient regarding the culture than those purely literary types who review his books, was simply expressing a sense of a connection that honest philosophers since the time of Socrates have recognized as their vocation to articulate. Namely, it is impossible that there should be such a thing as objective moral goodness if reality is nothing more than matter in motion...
Read more : Mind-Brain Reductionism, Gay Marriage, and Overcoming the Depravity of it All ~ Cosmos Liturgy Sex
Okay, so Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant, Kate, and Kathy and other writers are being hounded for daring to presume a freedom to express themselves in a country that has fixated on “being nice” over being “sensible” or “honest” or “provocative” or even “cranky” if one wants to be cranky...
Read more: Is Canada the Stepford Nation? ~ The Anchoress
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Read more: God is the strength of his people ~ Catholic Exchange
Tom Wolfe, in his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, explores the connection between the mind-brain reductionism of contemporary neuroscience and sociobiology and the moral depravity rampant on contemporary college and university campuses. Philosophical materialists who reviewed the book were, by and large, unimpressed by the idea that mind-brain reductionism should lead to the libertinism endemic to contemporary campus life. But Wolfe, who is generally more prescient regarding the culture than those purely literary types who review his books, was simply expressing a sense of a connection that honest philosophers since the time of Socrates have recognized as their vocation to articulate. Namely, it is impossible that there should be such a thing as objective moral goodness if reality is nothing more than matter in motion...
Read more : Mind-Brain Reductionism, Gay Marriage, and Overcoming the Depravity of it All ~ Cosmos Liturgy Sex
Okay, so Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant, Kate, and Kathy and other writers are being hounded for daring to presume a freedom to express themselves in a country that has fixated on “being nice” over being “sensible” or “honest” or “provocative” or even “cranky” if one wants to be cranky...
Read more: Is Canada the Stepford Nation? ~ The Anchoress
Will be updated during the day.
There's a good interview with Ezra Levant on the latest episode of Dogma Free America. The Canadian HRC has gone mad with power.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Christopher!
ReplyDeletehmmm... I bought Charlotte Simmons but never read it, afterall it is a tome and the reviews were sketchy. Perhaps, I'll revisit it.
ReplyDeleteGreg, cool! I'll be curious as to what you think of the book.
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