In a previous post about the new House version of Obamacare, I concluded that the end of life counseling provisions had been improved but could still use further clarification. But I have a concern about assisted suicide in an area not connected to end of life counseling or advance . . . . Continue Reading »
The new House Obamacare bill is in and the criticisms about the end of life counseling issues appear to have been addressed seriously. These are my initial impressions, subject to change. But I must say, it’s better. On page 129, the bill states (with my italics):SEC. 240. . . . . Continue Reading »
On Halloween I am sometimes asked if I believe in ghosts. While accepting that there are “more things in heaven and earth” than Richard Dawkins finds tolerable, I have no strong commitment either way. There is some evidence for something, but it is not obvious what that something is.Are . . . . Continue Reading »
As I may have mentioned earlier, I grew up with Catholics on my mother’s side and the Church of Christ on my father’s side. Not exactly a recipe for happy relations. For the record, the Catholics were more gracious about it. I found the tension painful, difficult, and . . . . Continue Reading »
As tomorrow marks the 492nd anniversary of the event that traditionally marks the beginning of the Reformation, I thought it appropriate to post the following choral rendition of Luther’s Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott, sung in its original syncopated rhythm.This hymn is, of course, a . . . . Continue Reading »
When does a cross cease to represent Christianity and become a secular symbol? According to Justice Antonin Scalia, when it’s used for a war memorial. As Susan Jacoby, the Washington Post ’s resident atheist, reports : In oral arguments this month in the case of Salazar v. Buono,, which . . . . Continue Reading »
(For now, anyway.)When evangelicals stop preaching sermons on Gran Torino and dropping iPods from helicopters on Easter, I’ll start caring about Fatima.I mean, do I have a Spiritual aversion to the “ceremonies, vows, works, and merits” of my brothers and sisters across the Tiber? . . . . Continue Reading »
Want this badge?The 300th Christian Carnival is up at Brain Cramps for . . . . Continue Reading »
If the banner ads on this page were promoting this apparition of Mary, would anyone object?And just to play a little more fair today to make my point crystal clear, what if the banner ads were promoting this . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, one benefit of excess time in airports and planes ... is I’m getting some sleeping and a lot of reading done. I’ve finished the new uncensored In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and The Unlearned Lessons Of the Twentieth Century by Chantal Delsol. The latter of . . . . Continue Reading »
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