#Moral

So I wrote something about the USCCB meeting and why conversations about how Catholics should vote are always about abortion and never make any real progress.I hope you'll read the
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four years ago people in college told me I was not cut out to be a reporter and tomorrow I'm interviewing a former vice president. idk. sometimes life, you know,
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Honestly sometimes what strikes me as the biggest difference between Jewish and Christian approaches to texts we each consider sacred is just how deadly *serious* the Christian relationship to it
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Day 4 of #60DayChallengeWhat is an "intellectual?" In his book, "Intellectuals," Paul Johnson gives a concise definition: "Men [who] arose to assert that they could diagnose the ills of society
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general reminder that:-@ProstasiaInc is taking an *evidence-based* approach to CSA prevention-MAPs are actually human beings who suffer from, yes, a *mental disorder* as defined by the DSM-prostasia acts as legal
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Short thread:1. Transgender people do not have a moral obligation to announce they are transgender prior to dates. 2. The cisgender people who say they must invariably come from a
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It's not a "talking point" it's a good point, and I have found responses to it by apologists to be severely lacking and amazingly sparring in details. Your response here
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I honestly find it creepy when people like this pop up with eloquent, well-written defenses of antis that seem sensible & likely to win over "normal" people who don't know
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The thing is when people are distrustful of the media, I can't blame them, and I can't really defend the press as it currently exists.This is a problem, because while
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Last week I was sad about the PiF takeover of #NUFC, this week I am angry. I totally understand fellow Toon fans wanting rid of a parasite like Ashley +
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I think that Freud's theories can be applied to the Buffyverse to understand what it means to become a vampire. For those who don't know, Freud theorizes the existence of
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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798It’s possible
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they challenge performance on declared targets, but not the ideology&moral framework behind them.1. Science might inform moral choice, but will never replace moral imperatives. These might be set one way,
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It reminds me of @RichardDawkins famous presentaion titled “I am offended” There is no freedom of speech without freedom to offend. Does not matter how foul or distastefulthe opinion is,
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I think I'm not communicating well, because a fair few people are taking my "it's ok to be happy Trump is sick, but please stop saying illness happens to people
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Ben, I’m a gay man who disagrees with surrogacy for various reasons: 1) moral/ethical concerns about breaking the bond between birth mother and child, 2) socialist/feminist arguments against men’s exploitation
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