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A Dangerous Basis for Right and Wrong
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithMost people can distinguish between right and wrong. They form values based on laws, rules, or some kind of objective sense of morality. But not Bertrand Russell.
Nope, this atheist’s discernment of right and wrong was based on something far more fickle.
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Thou Shalt Not Cheat (On This Test)
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithDan Ariely knows how to spot liars and cheats: he just looks for humans. His research team at Duke University studies our behavior and he’s found that people are willing to be dishonest in almost any situation.
Except one.
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Promiscuity, the Perennial Chart Topper
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithLots of people bemoan the morally-bankrupt lyrics that fill today’s popular music. Whether it’s Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” Lady Gaga singing about a “disco stick,” or just about anything from Miley Cyrus, it seems as though today’s artists are fixated on promoting loose sexual ethics.
Just like musicians did 60 years ago….
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DNA Made Me Do It
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithIn life, bad stuff happens. Sometimes, even really bad stuff happens. And from time to time, outright evil strikes our lives. It leaves us asking “Why?” in a desperate search for answers. But we must be leery of some of the answers we’re offered.
Like this one from atheist, Richard Dawkins.
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Jefferson’s Bible
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithSome people make the Bible “say what they want it to say,” meaning they take teachings out of context, misinterpret passages, or even interpret Scripture through their own biases. But President Thomas Jefferson took this error to the extreme.
He made the Bible “say what he wanted it to say” by creating a whole new Bible!
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Tullian Tchividjian on the Law
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithThe Law reveals sin, but is powerless to remove it. The Law points to righteousness but can’t inspire it. It shows us what godliness is, but it cannot make us godly. The Law, in this sense, in incapable of producing what it demands – it is impotent.
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Thomas Paine on Character
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
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Shifting Attitudes
by davidrsmithby davidrsmithPublic opinion sways like a tree in the wind. What was called “wrong” yesterday might be considered “right” tomorrow…and vice versa. While there are dozens of examples of this phenomenon, one of the biggest shifts in our culture has been over homosexuality.
But has our opinion about this topic shifted in the correct direction?
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Lord Shaftesbury on Politics
by davidrsmithby davidrsmith“What is morally right can never be politically wrong, and what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”
