The Day After the Elections of 2008

Finnish school shooting: Student social Darwinist dies, kills eight others

Do beliefs have implications? Many people argue in the negative. “His private life has no bearing on his ability to operate in the job”.

Well, this is plainly true in some cases, like, whether you prefer french vanilla or banana flavored ice-cream. Or perhaps which football team you support. But what about a person’s views on the deeper things in life, their worldview, their noetic structure? Can these things really have no effect on their actions?

Finnish school shooting: Student social Darwinist dies…

Watch the Debate: What Has Atheism Done for Us?

Christopher Hitchens versus Dinesh D’Souza

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My new book What’s So Great About Christianity, just out, is already an amazon.com bestseller, a Wall Street Journal bestseller and No. 16 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Saturday C-Span broadcast my debate with God Is Not Great author Christopher Hitchens. Many people have commented that this is the best debate on the topic of Christianity v. Atheism that has yet been held. If you haven’t seen it, you can find the debate on my website dineshdsouza.com. Following the debate, AOL posted the video on its main page, and asked people to make up their minds and vote on who won. Modesty prevents me from disclosing the answer.

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, watched the debate and reported with some agitation that the audience seemed to be applauding more for me than for Hitchens. Dawkins commented on his website that the New York crowd must have been a “dopey” lot. But if you listen to the debate, you will see that both atheists and believers were well represented. The audience applause was initially stronger for Hitchens, and only as the debate went on did it trend markedly toward me. So is Dawkins suggesting that the audience was very intelligent to start with but became more “dopey” as the debate went on? More likely we are seeing evidence of the “Dawkins delusion,” an unwillingness to use good sense and face facts when Dawkins’ own belief system is called into question.

Iraq and the Just War Theory

I just read this very interesting article from Matt Flannagan: Iraq and the Just War Theory: Why I choose not to support the anti-war movement.

I think he makes a very simple and powerful argument, especially against those who oppose the Iraq invasion and war: If we base our morality upon Just War Theory, then the right thing for the peace activists to do is to turn their continual condemnation of George Bush to a condemnation of the Iraqi resistance.

Judged by the standards of Just War Theory, George Bush is significantly more justified in engaging in a war against Saddam than Saddam is in defending himself against George W. To the ‘peace movement’ Matt writes:

The peace movement should be picketing Iraq’s decision to fight, burning Iraqi flags demanding that Saddam step down, storming Iraq’s embassies etc. We should see hundreds of thousands of people marching denouncing Iraq.

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It should call for the Iraqi leadership to put down its weapons and cease fighting an unjust war. Until it does many people even those who have doubts about the justice of Americas actions will remain skeptical of its goals. If not morally appalled at its selective blindness and lack of concern for the Iraq people.

Nice thinking Matt. Nice link to a page that corrects stupid thinking too!