Faith and Ferrocity: The Violence and Compassion of Religion

Andrew Sullivan and Sam Harris have been Bloggaloging (Gasp! The act of engaging in a Blogalogue? … I think) about the topic of Religion, Violence, Compassion, Jesus, Islam, fundamentalism, etc.
Here’s the beginning, and Andrew’s recent Response.

Gay, no Way! Churches Against Oregon Anti Gay Discrimination Legislation

There are 2 new bills being considered by the Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee: Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 500
They are both basically anti-discrimination measures designed to protect the homosexual community. Of course, Churches has voiced the largest opposition, as has the Oregon Family Council.
Not too surprising. Christians in America love the [...]

Francis Fukuyama on Liberal Democracy

Francis Fukuyama on Liberal Democracy (from The End of History)
“Political liberalism can be defined simply as a rule of law that recognizes certain individual rights or freedoms from government control”

Catholic Believes Buddhists and Atheists can Get to Heaven

The Priest Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, Former Physicist, and author of God At The Ritz: Attraction To Infinity,  discussed God and whether or not Buddhists and Atheists can get into heaven on MeaningofLife.tv with Robert Wright.  He says that a little known doctrine of Catholicism says yes.
Good news for me I guess.

Goldilocks, Philosophy of Science, and the Observable World

 
Robert Lanza recently wrote a great piece on the basis of our understanding of the objective world. Essentially taking the Cartesian, “Cogito, ergo Sum” idea and placing it at the feet of Modern Quantum Mechanics. His basic premise is that the world is only real through our observation of it. And because [...]