For those unaware, the Manhattan Declaration is a statement of conservative Christian doctrine on present day hot button moral issues. Mainly it is anti-abortion and anti-homosexuality in its sentiments.
It’s also a document that was, by its...
James Burgh, like Joseph Priestley and Richard Price was a British (Burgh was of Scottish origin) dissenting divine, a Whig, and apparently a unitarian. And like Revs. Priestley and Price, Burgh tremendously influenced the American Founding. ...
I knew Tom Van Dyke would leave an apt comment on my post on Rights, God and the Fundamentalist Fallacy.
He writes:
Further, I think the first tablet of the 10 Commandments is “special” revelation and doesn’t count.
Natural law arguments,...
When I was completing my undergrad work, one of my profs surprised me by stating that he believed he had a pretty good grasp of the issues surrounding the then-proposed North American Free Trade Agreement from having read numerous student papers about...
There’s an interesting breakout between Ed Brayton and Joe Farah on Farah’s committing what I have termed the “fundamentalist fallacy” regarding rights and God and Brayton’s terming Farah’s vision “theocracy.”
The fundamentalist fallacy as it pertains...
