A moment ago, I posted a very long comment in response to a post by Quinn O’Neill at 3QuarksDaily. Ms O’Neill’s post was a response to criticism that she had received after saying, in an earlier piece on the same site, that the most effective strategy for increasing the likelihood that schools will teach a [...]
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A long comment at 3QuarksDaily
Posted by acilius on April 11, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/04/11/a-long-comment-at-3quarksdaily/
Counterpunch, 1-15 March 2012
In the latest issue of Counterpunch, JoAnn Wypijewski tells the story of Keith Jennings, a resident of Stony Ridge, Ohio. Mr Jennings couldn’t keep up with his house payments, so the bank owns it now. He has responded to this by enlisting a group of local youths to seal the house off, covering it in [...]
Posted by acilius on March 22, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/03/22/counterpunch-1-15-march-2012/
Atheism is no excuse for skipping church
In a recent review of Alain de Botton‘s Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion, John Gray writes: Rarely mentioned in the debates of recent years is that atheism has been linked with all kinds of positions in ethics, politics and philosophy. More particularly, there is no necessary connection – either [...]
Posted by acilius on February 22, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/22/atheism-is-no-excuse-for-skipping-church/
In what God did Irving Babbitt disbelieve?
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) often made remarks to the effect that religion was a good thing, though he never endorsed any particular religion, and certainly never joined any. Such scholars as Claes G. Ryn have argued that Babbitt, despite his personal irreligion, is a powerful intellectual ally for believers. After Babbitt’s death, his closest friend, Paul [...]
Posted by acilius on March 18, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/03/18/in-what-god-did-irving-babbitt-disbelieve/
Religions and their atheisms
In his essay on Ernest Renan, Irving Babbitt wrote: Renan has evidently carried over to science all the mental habits of Catholicism. As Sainte-Beuve remarks, “In France we shall remain Catholics long after we have ceased to be Christians.” Renan, indeed, may be best defined as a scientist and positivist with a Catholic imagination. For [...]
Posted by acilius on January 28, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/28/religions-and-their-atheisms/
Why Live?
YouTube user Religious Fiction considers a question that she has heard from many believers: If there is no God, why live? The question itself puzzles her, and she suggests that YouTubers should have a big conversation about it: She says that no theist has ever explained to her “why living with the assumption that there [...]
Posted by acilius on January 7, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/07/why-live/
The Old Right in the New Year
The current issues of The American Conservative and Chronicles appeared in our mailbox yesterday; here are my notes on them. J. David Hoeveler, who in 1977 published the indispensable book The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940, contributes to this issue of The American Conservative an article about one of the main subjects [...]
Posted by acilius on January 5, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/01/05/the-old-right-in-the-new-year/
Fundamentalisms
I’ve often wondered about the word “fundamentalism.” The word seems to refer less to a specific set of beliefs than to an attitude of militant certitude about one’s beliefs. So an “Islamic fundamentalist” and a “Christian fundamentalists” can look at each other, each serene in the conviction that the other will be damned for obscene [...]
Posted by acilius on August 5, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/08/05/fundamentalisms/
The Nation, 4 January 2010
Several reports on the Copenhagen summit on climate change draw Alexander Cockburn out with a column trumpeting his dissent from the view that by dumping such great volumes of greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere humans are doing enormous harm to the environment. Cockburn never convinces me when he mounts this hobby-horse of his, but I must confess to [...]
Posted by acilius on December 17, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/12/17/the-nation-4-january-2010/
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