Today, went to St John’s co-cathedral in Valletta. Downloading and then uploading images from my iPad defeats me. But images are available here. It is an unrestrained example of a Baroque Catholic cathedral. When I say “unrestrained”, I mean they did not know when to stop. I would say it was positively Hindu or Chinese [...]
One of the standard complaints against giving queers (by ‘queer’ I mean any person who does not conform to being definitively male-or-female and heterosexual: i.e. same-sex oriented, same-sex attracted, intersex, transgender people) equal protection of the law is that it is an offense against the Christian, or Judaeo-Christian (if Christians want to include Jews rather [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Law, Religion, Sexuality
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Tagged bigotry, Bowers v Hardwick, gender, islam, Jews, jihadi, Law, Lawrence v Texas, Religion, scripture, sexuality
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I find Steve Horwitz, along with George Selgin (prominent advocate of free banking and supporter of a productivity norm [pdf] for monetary policy), the most accessible of contemporary Austrian school economists as they are both clear writers who seek to engage with those who are not of their school and are refreshingly free of the nastiness [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, Philosophy
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Tagged Austrian business cycle, Austrian school, capital, David Glasner, deflation, Friedrich Hayek, George Selgin, Inflation, John Maynard Keynes, labour markets, monetary policy, Scott Sumner, Steve Horwitz, Tyler Cowen
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A description of what confronted a Commonwealth officer in the Northern Territory during the Pacific War (1941-5), when thousands of service personnel passed through the Northern Territory: … once you introduced a European or Asian father any child of that liaison had any rights as an Aboriginal extinguished at birth. They were not classed as [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Australia, Children, Economics, Society, Welfare
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Tagged Australian Aborigines, crime, culture, hunter-gatherer, indigenous issues, noel pearson, policy, Stolen generations
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Just when I thought I had a full grasp of the moral depravity that is suicide bombing, another level of horror is revealed. Al Qaeda’s preferred target group for recruiting suicide bomber is—orphans. As one Pakistani political activist writes: We have observed that most of the suicides bombers are orphans who are less than 17 [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Law, Middle east, Religion, Terrorism
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Tagged adoption, islam, islamic terrorism, jihad, jihadi, Law, monotheism, morality, Religion
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I’m blogging about Easter again, sorry. This time spurred by an online conversation between friends about the appropriateness or not of being wished “Happy Easter” on Good Friday. Classicists of the world, wrack off – yes I DO know the entire event was probably lifted from pre-existing pagan rites of spring, but for the purposes [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Art, Australia, Blogging, Britain, Events, Fark!, General, Media, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Religion, Skeptics, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged 9/11, christianity, Easter, ground zero, islam, Jesus, Jonathan Jones, Judaism, magnum, New York, photography, september 11th, the guardian, the meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo, The Passion, Thomas Hoepker, twin towers
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Rick Santorum is facing some awkward questions after footage emerged of a radical evangelical preacher opening a campaign rally with calls for all non-Christians to “get out” of America. In the footage, filmed at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Louisiana yesterday, Pastor Dennis Terry told a crowd that anyone who doesn’t worship God should [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Funnies, Politics, Religion, Society, The Right
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Tagged barack obama, christian evangelism, god damn america speech, greenwell springs baptist church, louisiana, one nation under god, pastor dennis terry, pledge of allegiance, republican primaries, reverend jeremiah wright, rick santorum, united states of america, US politics, US presidential election 2012, US republican party, US republicans, USA
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[LE: Something I often wonder about when studying history is: why do certain civilisations develop in certain ways, and others (which are equally technologically advanced, if not more so) do not develop in the same way? I suppose it's one of the reasons why I enjoy speculative fiction so much: speculative fiction plays a game [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Guest Post, Law, Middle east, Religion
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Tagged brahmins, china, christianity, divinely ordained law, europe, global history, Guest Post, Hinduism, History, industrial revolution, islam, japan, Judaism, Lorenzo, Mesoamerica, Middle east, Sharia, sharia law, South East Asia, Western Civilisation
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February 23, 2012 – 2:19 am
Apologising for something one does not think is wrong is not very nice. Apart from anything else, it is insincere. I have done it several times in my life, once publicly. The public apology was not a success for anyone concerned (me or those who disliked me), and I have long since retracted it. Sometimes [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, England, Fark!, Law, scotland, Skeptics
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Tagged Adam Lusher, Camilla Long, Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph, kevin rudd, Mary Ann Sieghart, richard dawkins, Stolen generations, stolen generations apology, Tony Abbott, tories who should bloody know better
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February 9, 2012 – 7:40 am
On 2 February 2012, I attended the launch of Russell Blackford’s new book, Freedom of Religion and the Secular State. I’ve finished the book so I thought I’d write a brief review as well as some comments on the visible move to secularism in one of my areas of study, trusts law. Blackford’s central thesis [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Australia, Blogging, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, Skeptics, Society
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Tagged Boo Hoos, burqa, Free Speech, freedom of religion, Freedom of Religion & The Secular State, History, John Locke, Law, Religion, Russell Blackford, secularism, society, trust law, Trusts
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