Archive for April, 2005
Designs on the University
The prestigious science journal Nature has a feature in its 28 April 2005 issue titled “Who Has Designs on Your Students’ Minds?” This article points out the increasing prevalence with which ID is given attention at our colleges and universities, and the alarmingly receptive audience found among incoming students. But despite researchers’ apparent lack of [...]
Read More..>>Onward Christian Soldiers
Could it be that those secular Humanists who have supposedly taken over the American judiciary, media, and schools are actually… Christian?A Washington Post op-ed by Paul Gaston titled “…Smearing Christian Judges” makes just that case. What these self-avowed Christians do not acknowledge — and what the American public seems little aware of — is that [...]
Read More..>>Pop Goes, Per Weigel
George Will, in an Op-Ed piece titled “Suicide by Secularism,” paints a bleak picture of Europe’s future, laying its demise at the feet of secular humanism. Based on John Paul II biographer George Weigel’s new book, “The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God,” Will speaks of a shrinking reproduction rate and [...]
Read More..>>Republicans: Keepers of the Faith
The front page of today’s New York Times features an article titled “Frist Set to Use Religious Stage on Judicial Issue.” According to the article Senate majority leader Bill Frist is going to participate in a conservative Christian religious broadcast characterizing Democratic opponents of some of President Bush’s judicial nominees as employing a “fillibuster against [...]
Read More..>>The New Crusade
Rolling Stone Online has posted a feature titled “The Crusaders.” Meet the Dominionists — biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government. As the far-right wing of the evangelical movement, Dominionists are pressing an agenda that makes Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America look like the Communist Manifesto. They want [...]
Read More..>>Rx Regnant Sed Non Gubernat
Ellen Goodman has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post titled “Dispensing Morality,” on the theme previously raised here (see “What Would Jesus Prescribe?“) about pharmacists exercising conscience clauses and refusing to fill prescriptions for, among other things, contraceptives. The pharmacist who refuses emergency contraception is not just following his moral code, he’s trumping the moral [...]
Read More..>>Values Agenda on the Wane
USA Today reports “Many wary of GOP’s moral agenda.” Many Americans have finally come to realize, apparently, that religious conservatives have too much influence with the Republican Party and the current administration.
Read More..>>National Day of Reason (5 May 2005)
A message from the National Day of Reason web project: Now, more than ever, America needs a Day of Reason.With the religious right firmly in control of the Presidency and Congress, and with the threat to our Judiciary looming large, there has never been as important a moment in which to affirm our commitment to [...]
Read More..>>What Would Jesus Prescribe?
An Editorial in the New York Times (Sunday, 3 April 2005) titled “Moralists at the Pharmacy” brings to light the growing number of pharmacists who refuse to fill contraceptive prescriptions on the basis of their personal religious beliefs. An organization of antiabortion pharmacists is pushing for professional associations and state legislatures to adopt “conscience clauses” [...]
Read More..>>Body and Soul
From today’s Washington Post, a “Mystery of Body and Soul” in which author Philip Clayton explores the Terri Schiavo case from both a religious and scientific perspective. Some who integrate science and values in this way do so in religious terms, others eschew religious categories and adhere instead to a humanist philosophy….The humanist response is [...]
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