Not exact matches
i am sorry J.W but i don't believe there is a god
of any
kind... if there was a god, why would such a so called all powerful being allow for the treatment
of its creation by its creation... the
argument of free will is an
old and tired one... if the existence was true and the laws put in place to honor such a creature were equally upheld by god then i would have been punished a long long time ago and so would have the majority
of people... believer or not!
One hates to make
old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections
of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any
kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization
of young girls as legitimate forms
of the varied human sexual appetite?
That tiered
old argument has been shown to be ignorant again and again, and yet Christians still love to use it like it hold any
kind of weight.
The
older, more traditional, and more robust
kind of design
argument, however, does not look to things that contravene the order
of nature but to the order
of nature itself.
And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all
kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best
argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving
of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite
old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership
of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all
of which would help to end grotesque levels
of inequality within our nations and between them.
This
kind of cross-examination looks more like an
argument between 3 - year -
old children:
What's your sense
of that
kind of age -
old argument they should be out catching other criminals?