Just yesterday, I listed logical fallacies that people can fall into. Some of the fallacies are the result of deliberate action. Many of them are due to inadvertent mistakes. But, the first graph is a deliberate attempt to mislead. Note that in the first graph it visually appears that about three times as many people […]
Archives for March 2014
Good summary of fallacies
As you can see, the poster above comes from http://bewareofimages.com. While I do not support some of what is on the site, they are good at pointing out deliberate lies, inadvertent lies, omissions of truth, etc. I find the poster above to be a quite good one. It lists the most common logical fallacies found […]
Wait, you mean it wasn’t just public relations talk?
From the Vatican website, dated three days ago, 26 March 2014: Con riferimento all’amministrazione della diocesi di Limburg, in Germania, la Congregazione per i Vescovi ha studiato attentamente il rapporto della Commissione voluta dal Vescovo e dal Capitolo Cattedrale, per intraprendere approfondite indagini circa le responsabilità coinvolte nella costruzione del Centro Diocesano “St. Nikolaus”. Atteso […]
Pope Francis and confession
From Reuters news service: The pope was presiding at a service intended to show the importance he attaches to the sacrament of reconciliation, commonly known as confession. After reading a sermon, he was to have gone to an empty confessional booth to hear confessions from ordinary faithful as some 60 priests scattered around the huge […]
How Christians get a bad name
In an article published today, President Jimmy Carter said: “In the United States for the same exact work for a full-time employee, women get 23 percent less pay than men. And in the Fortune 500, only 21 of those leaders among the 500 are women, and in that high level, they get 42 percent less […]
A time of sadness tinged with the joy of Resurrection
From Antiochian.org: “The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, with great sadness, announces the passing unto life eternal of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America. May his memory be eternal! Details are forthcoming.”
Common law and legal interpretation
Notice that back in 1959, before even some of the current arguments about supposedly activists courts, the Virginia State Bar posted the plaque above which lauds the fact that we are a country of common law. They go even farther to say that, “since the Magna Carta the common law has been the cornerstone of […]
Constitution, common law, statutory law
There is a person who comments on my blog periodically with whom I disagree various times. But, the highest compliment that I can pay is that he makes me think. He makes sound arguments. He calls me to account. He keeps me from flights of unthinking rapture in my blog posts. Recently, he again challenged […]
Why I do not believe in original intent
On a post yesterday, a contributor wrote of being in favor of the conservative ideal of original intent. As I answered him, I am not in favor of original intent. In fact, I think that any devoted Christian should run far away from original intent. Why do I say that? Well, let’s really look at […]
When is religious liberty really damaged?
From an article supporting religious liberty. Lately, religious liberty has been looking like the freedom that eats everyone else’s for breakfast. In Arizona and other states, fundamentalists said they were acting in the name of religious liberty when trying to pass laws that would allow businesses to refuse to serve people based on theological or […]
