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el 21-Jan-2009 | Martin Cothran, who never met a logical error he didn't like, has a question about the inauguration:
If this isn't a Christian nation, then why are presidents (including this one) sworn in using a Bible, rather than, say, the Koran or Bagavad-Gita? For the same reason it wasn't a White nation just because the first 43 presidents were all white, and neither is it a male nation just because all 44 so far have been men.
We'll elect a woman one day, and some day a Jew will place his or her hand on a copy of Tanakh and take the oath. One day someone will take the oath of office with a copy of the Vedas, and one day someone will, when posed the question "so help you God?" after the oath, politely decline that extraconstitutional addition.
The fact that all the Presidents elected thus far have been Christian (in some sense) doesn't make the nation Christian. To claim that it does is an exercise in faulty logic, and is unbecoming in someone who purports to teach logic.
The fact that America is not a Christian nation explains why my Jewish ancestors fled the officially Christian nations in which they were born. They wanted a place where official discrimination wouldn't keep them down. They wanted a place where they didn't have to fear pogroms, and where the army wouldn't sweep through their towns periodically, kidnapping the males of a certain age off to be cannon fodder in wars between nations competing for the mantle of true heir to the Christian tradition. They wanted to know that their descendants had a chance to be in Congress, and even to grow up to be President. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it never will. If that sort of logic were valid, Barack Obama wouldn't be the President of these United States of America. Read the comments on this post...
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Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Stupid answers to stupid questions | ![Click here to read What Do PlayStation 3 Owners Want Most From Sony? - What Do PlayStation 3 Owners Want Most From Sony? [Sony]](http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/160x120_ps3_headset.jpg) Martin Cothran, who never met a logical error he didn't like, has a question about the inauguration:
If this isn't a Christian nation, then why are presidents (including this one) sworn in using a Bible, rather than, say, the Koran or Bagavad-Gita?For the same reason it wasn't a White nation just because the first 43 presidents were all white, and neither is it a [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jan-2009 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Simple answers to stupid questions | | Disco. Inst. blogger and staff member for the Kentucky affiliate of Focus on the Family wonders:
Are gay rights groups turning into hate groups?No.
This has been your simple answer to another stupid question.
Cothran's argument is actually much stupider than it might seem:
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
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| Simple answers to stupid, point-missing questions | | Sam Harris has a brand new blog, and already has managed to lard it with roughly what you'd expect: tendentiousness, insistence that religious is wrong because it won't change (and that religions which do change are illegitimate for doing so), and the usual pro-repression politics.
Referring to Florida's Pastor Jones, who finally burnt a Quran after spending the last year thre [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Apr-2011 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
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| Simple answers to stupid, offensive, intolerable questions | ![Click here to read Sony Launching 3D Games This June - Sony Launching 3D Games This June [3D]](http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/04/160x120_thumb160x_ken2.jpg) Disco. DJ Bruce Chapman wonders Does Obamacare Provide for Euthanasia?
No.
This is the simple answer to that stupid, offensive, and intolerable question.
Here's Chapman's claim in all its glory:
Our Sr. Fellow Wesley J. Smith of the Discovery Institute Center for Human Rights and Bioethics is asking the question that Bill Donahue of the Catholic League [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Aug-2009 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Simple questions for stupid questioners | | Disco. president Bruce Chapman wonders:
It is not clear why the number of academic freedom cases seem to be increasing. Is it because the iron hand of ideological conformity is squeezing professors more tightly? Or is it because more subjects of attack are fighting back in court?Or is it because he's making numbers up from thin air? Might it be not clear that the [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Creationism
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
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| Simple answer to stupid questions: Cothran and Beckwith edition | | Martin Cothran, friend to bigotry of all kinds, wonders "Has the Obama admininstration [sic] endorsed Big Love?"
No.
He is reacting to the Obama administration's decision not to defend section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, and to Francis Beckwith's erroneous comments on that decision.
Before delving into the argument, a few basic facts. DOMA was passed in 1996, an [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Feb-2011 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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