I’ve always viewed Snopes.com in much the same way I view Wikipedia–at best, a good place to start your research, and never to be trusted on its face. More justification for my skepticism was provided to me recently by a friend, here. The Snopes article attacks this article here, titled, “TRENDING: More college students support …
So, we’re about to find out if the officer in Ferguson is going to be indicted, and the rumors floating about seem to suggest that he won’t. After making some remarks about the ‘power structure,’ a protester commented, “I also think we’re not going to get change in this society unless white people are just …
Fifth graders everywhere should have sex and anal sex. This (common core compatible?) school curriculum will show them exactly how to do it. Oh, and urge them to be abstinent.
Stop treating the symptoms, and look for the illness.
No one wants to be told that they cannot play with their toy. No one wants to be told that their toy might even be dangerous in certain contexts–like the child that wishes to play baseball in the living room does not like being told to take the baseball bat and ball into the field, where that toy is more appropriate–or, that they shouldn’t bash people in the head with the baseball bat.
This excerpt from Elliot Rodger’s ‘manifesto’ is the product of a hyper-sexualized society that emphasizes ‘fairness’ and elevates the elimination of suffering as the highest moral good; his eugenic conclusions seem to follow logically.
Limbaugh and others are correct in detecting the eugenics thinking behind this comment but do not go far enough in their explanation. The problem is that a moment’s thought, especially amongst those with only a passing knowledge of the phrase ‘eugenics’, would recall that early 20th century eugenics had essentially embraced Darwin’s formula, “Survival of the fittest.” Given that evolution, as expressed in this maxim, was a raw scientific fact, early eugenicists saw the genetically inferior as a burden on society that needed to be eliminated. So how was Gruber being like a eugenicist if he was targeting the genetically fit?
Every June, we run a donor drive. In getting this year’s ready, I noted that my typical proviso that ACM is not tax-exempt had more significance than in previous years. Over the last few weeks we have been regaled with case after case of conservative, Christian, anti-Obama, anti-Obama agenda organizations that have been targeted by …
While this has been going on for years, the recent spate of over-the-top reactions to ‘guns’ in the schools is beginning to illustrate the consequences of ‘political correctness’ that people have also been warning about for years. In a word, we are seeing the emergence of a soft tyranny, a stripping away of liberties, a …
It is a question of what is real and true about the universe: are we all, in reality, creatures made by God and then redeemed on the cross–even before we were born?
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