In my opinion, as I have previously stated, the Republican Party is splitting. Not only is the establishment branch of the party trying to shove Mitt down the throats of the conservatives but they are vehemently trying to play down the religious issue for the base. First, let me state that as a liberal I [...]
When conservatives beat the drum that the government is ‘controlling them’ many of us look at them the same way we would look at someone that told us the government put a radio in their head that makes them hear voices. When we hear that the secular world is controlled by Satan and evolution, climate [...]
With regard to more comments from this: Clark, “I think it unfair to say LDS think the apostasy is due to Greek thought. Many people (including myself) think that one major problem is applying Greek absolutism to the concept of the Hebrew God. But the range of LDS views on apostasy is much more complex [...]
More comments from this… Interesting…I had no idea there was a LDS faithful, continental strain at BYU. Of course, I would have believed there were continental philosophers there but without any necessary allegiance to Mormonism as Catholic Universities like DePaul have fantastic programs in continental philosophy but from my personal experience there I knew none [...]
With regard to Clark’s latest comment… “I think when one is going through the texts doing phenomenology that the phenomena ends up being the same.” I suppose this makes me think that Derrida might think about the ‘same’ here as the im-possiblity of the ‘same’ as he does of the im-possiblity of justice. We must [...]
With regard to this: Clark, Thanks for your comments. I understand your comment about older writings and certainly experience the draught of Lethe, the ever forgetful retreat from Mnemosyne, at the ancient age of 55! I agree with much of your thought on Levinas. I also have written and thought about the middle voice in [...]
Santorum stated today that rights come from above (God) not man. He went on to say that health care is not a right given by God but by man (government – Obama). Let’s forget the fact that Jesus said he came for the sick and not the well and spent most of his time on [...]
A letter from Paul: My religion believes in real ‘pro life’. We do not know when sub-dividing cells become human life but we do believe that cellular division at conception is NOT yet a ‘human life’ that merits legal protections. As such, our religious freedom has been trampled on by the fake ‘pro-lifers’ that mandated [...]
Rather often I feel like listening to the Republicans is like living in Alice’s wonderland. Here are some examples: Who created more debt Bush or Obama? The opiate truth: Obama increased the national debt vastly more than any other president. The non-opiate truth: The Graph – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is non-partisan. Here [...]
