A Respectful Response: Rights Don’t Exist
Ballista has responded to one of my more recent posts: Related to this matter is the blog post here. While men need their gardens to tend and need them to bear fruit, the problem with Free Northerner’s...
View ArticleDefense of Perennial Philosophy
I found this excerpt from the Trivium interesting (p. 224): The logic of perennial philosophy presented in this book is scorned in many universities today as outmoded, inadequate, and unfit for a...
View ArticleThe Grand Inquisitor
From a story in the Brothers Karamazov in which the Grand Inquisitor speaks to a returned Jesus, captured and imprisoned: “‘Is it Thou? Thou?’ but receiving no answer, he adds at once. ‘Don’t answer,...
View ArticleAre New Atheists Idiots?
I came across this artice on Slate on some arrogant, “intellectually superior” atheist named Martin Pribble is leaving the atheist community because the religious are unthinking and irrational. He...
View ArticleThree Truths
There are three ways something can be considered true. Fact truth – Fact truth is mundane reality. A fact truth is empirical, it explains or describes a natural phenomenon but goes no deeper than that....
View ArticleEnd of the World
Chapters 7 & 8 of Chesterton’s the Everlasting Man are one of the best things I’ve read in a while. Here’s an excerpt: For the shepherds were dying because their gods were dying. Paganism lived...
View ArticleJust War and Breivik
A couple of Ask.fm questions and a Twitter convo with Mandrake have prompted me to post on just war and Brievik. Just war has two aspects jus ad bellum and jus in bello. Jus ad bellum governs whether a...
View ArticleAbortion, Tomlinson, and Moral Midgets
A few days ago, an author by the name of Patrick S Tomlinson, posed a trolley problem, which, in a huge bout of Dunning-Krueger, he claimed eviscerates the pro-life argument. You can read his argument...
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