Category: Flashback

Foucault cited Borges, but some of his followers cite the encyclopedia as fact.

The Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.

Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge

It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord.

Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot

The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well

New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.

The sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized.

Impatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.

‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’

Socialism is a violation of God’s creation order.

Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world.

Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist

Secularists, women’s rights campaigners, minorities not pleased.

Entrenches the opinions of parents.

I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.

‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’

Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.

Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.