May 28, 2023
“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment, during Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788 After nearly 250 years as a nation, Americans are still debating the actual […]
Tags: 2nd Amendment rights, Amy Swearer, concealed carry, George Mason quote, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, Heritage Foundation, Kris Brown, lives saved, open carry, protection against criminals and tyrants, Second Amendment, self-defense, well-armed citizenry
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May 21, 2023
I found another section from Vivek Ramaswamy’s book, Woke, Inc., that I wanted to share. This is from Chapter 10, “Wokeness Is Like a Religion”, so it should be pretty obvious where this is going. The author discusses noted cases in the news, from James Damore to J.K. Rowling, in which individuals dared to question […]
Tags: a form of modern religion, anti-conservative, apostate, Civis Analytics, culture wars, David Shor, Disney, double standards, echo chamber, freedom of speech, Gina Carano, Google, identity-politics orthodoxy, intolerance, J.K. Rowling, James Damore, Kevin Cernekee, Maya Forstater, political correctness, Sasha White, woke mob, woke Twitter
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
May 14, 2023
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” — Johannes Kepler, 16th/17th-century mathematician and astronomer, known for his Laws of Planetary Motion If you are at all […]
Tags: Aristotelian cosmology, Aristotelian worldview, Astronomy, conflict thesis, Dava Sobel, Galileo, heliocentrism, Inquisition, John C. Lennox, observation vs. speculation, political concerns, Pope Urban VIII, Roman Catholic Church, science vs. religion, science/faith issues, secular opposition, Simplicio, vitriol
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
May 7, 2023
“That’s insane!” — Jared Dirac, Special Forces soldier The following conversation — technically just half of a conversation — is an excerpt from the science-fiction novel The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. Normally, I would be more likely to share something like this on my “Heroes and Aliens” blog. But, this section (and the book […]
Tags: biblical allusion, cloning, ethics, genetic engineering, John Scalzi, revenge, science-fiction, self-awareness, self-identity, temptation of Eve, the nature of consciousness, traitor, War, worldview
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science, Uncategorized |