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Hume on Religion

By on January 4, 2010 5
Buddhist all agitated over lack of redemption

Buddhist all agitated over lack of redemption

Until now my blog has been proudly 100% Tiger-Woods-free, but I can’t resist quoting Brit Hume as he shares with us his vast knowledge of comparative religion:

The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be: “Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”

Yeah! No redemption for sinners in Buddhism! So take that, Ashoka!

In vaguely related news, this paper examines the question of what the other Hume might have known about Buddhism.

Hail Caesar!

By on January 2, 2010 13

Check out this merry message from our friends at the Census Bureau:

Census ad

And be sure to read Tom Knapp’s comments, as well as the Bible’s animadversions on King David’s earlier census.

I’m tempted to add a shiny poster of Jesus being crucified, with the text: “This is how Jesus died. Jesus cooperated with the Roman Empire’s criminal justice system. Don’t be afraid.”

Prax Vobiscum

By on January 2, 2010 4
Tom Woods

Tom Woods

Tom Woods has an excellent piece on LRC today criticising Catholic social theorists who think they can derive policy proposals from papal pronouncements without having to know any economics.

Of course I think Tom’s case against extending papal authority to economic facts is an equally good argument against accepting it for the moral and theological facts that are supposed to be its proper ambit, since these facts too “cannot be protested, defied, or lectured to” but “can only be learned and acted upon.” But since he so nicely cites my abstraction paper I won’t press the point.

The Check Is Not In the Mail

By on December 18, 2009 6

writing a check

According to this story (CHT LRC), the first check (or cheque) in England was written in 1659.

Clearly this is false. Nobody would have accepted the first check; indeed, nothing even counts as “writing a check” except against the background of an established practice of check-writing.

Hence there could never have been a first check. And that leaves us only two options.

Either the practice of check-writing must stretch back to infinity – which in turn means that the creationists and the evolutionists are both wrong, and Aristotle is right: the universe and the human race are infinitely old, and we’ve been writing checks forever – or else there has never yet been a check, and all experience to the contrary is an illusion.

Star Logos

By on November 9, 2009 10

Stoicism is the perfect philosophy for science-fiction geeks: it’s a cross between Star Trek and Star Wars. The Stoic sage is Mr. Spock, and the Stoic god is the Force. (Well, except there’s no dark side.)
 

Jedi Vulcan

Jedi Vulcan

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