History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
Arthur Balfour
Chart of the Day: Apples and Oranges in Comparing Obama's Executive Orders
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The Underground Ginseng Economy
Liberals Are Not Pro-Liberty
Facebook Corner
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Any foundation that advocates in favor of the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the Iraq War, Border control, protection of "traditional marriage", and criminalization of pot cannot, with a straight face, call themselves an organization that promotes liberty.
This is truly idiotic. Whoever thinks fascist judges have the right to intervene on a community's marriage standards is hardly "pro-liberty".
(Being Classically Liberal). Late Night philosophy: thoughts on religion
Although I think theism, the belief in God (or Gods), is not terribly irrational, I do happen to think that a literal belief in religion is irrational. For example, the major Abrahamic religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism teach that man was created in God’s image. This doesn’t make sense to me. Over 98% of the species that have documented to have existed on earth at some point are now extinct and modern humans have existed for only a couple hundred thousand years on a planet that is over 4 billion years old . The universe itself is nearly 14 billion years old. Thus, modern humans have existed for an incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, (I can’t stress this enough) short period of time in relation to the universe’s existence as a whole, and even in relation to earth’s existence (we’ve existed for far less than 0.1% of earth’s existence).
Despite these facts, most religions teach us that we (humans) are unique, that we were made in a divine creator’s image, and that the history of the entire universe occurred for the sole purpose of bringing about the existence of a specific species of primates (humans) which will exist only for a short period of time. Honestly, the belief that a divine creator made the universe just for humans is not only implausible but incredibly egotistical.
What do you think on the matter? Do you believe God created humans in his image? If so, why?
Religion and science serve complementary purposes; we should not confuse allegory with a literal interpretation, and I'm not unduly concerned with fallible human attempts to describe God. As Tom Woods has argued, the Catholic Church guided the foundational development of modern universities, science, economic theory, etc. Religion provides a normative, higher-order context for human activity.
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Linda Ronstadt, "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me"
