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Category: Politics

A Pagan perspective on abortion, Part III

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Gus

The most vociferous and sometimes violent opponents of women’s right to choose claim they act in the name of Christianity and of life.  The truth seems to me to be very different. As it turns out historically the Bible has … Read more

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A Pagan perspective on abortion, part II.

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Gus

Recently I received an email from a woman who wrote me: “…[Y]ou don’t have to be Christian to have found out that abortion does in fact feel like murder — those fetuses’ spirits were already talking to me, and yes, … Read more

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A Pagan perspective on abortion, part I.

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Gus

In my opinion the strongest argument against abortion shares an insight with those of us who love the other-than-human. Recently a woman sent me an e-mail to that effect. I want to use the points she raised to begin exploring … Read more

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The fascinating link between where most stand on abortion and where they stand on environmentalism

Posted on August 2, 2013August 11, 2013 by Gus

Abortion and environmental issues constitute the two major ethical questions of our time.  Over at Patheos I just posted why usually people who support environmentalism also support a woman’s right to choose and why people who oppose environmentalism also oppose … Read more

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The meaninglessness of the term “free market” in contemporarty political debate

Posted on July 22, 2013July 23, 2013 by Gus

This post argues use of the term “free market” in almost all contemporary political debate is at best inaccurate and often a positive hindrance in understanding contemporary issues.

Advocates of capitalism continually intone the term “free market” and then, with … Read more

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Exploring economic freedom as if freedom and people actually mattered

Posted on July 20, 2013August 26, 2013 by Gus

Two quotations, juxtaposed, summarize the errors into which modern American defenses of ‘free markets’ and capitalism have entered. In the process these errors led to abandoning any real meaning for liberty or human well-being.  Right wing libertarians in particular sincerely … Read more

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Powerful TED talk on health, food, and what corporate agriculture is doing to us

Posted on July 19, 2013July 19, 2013 by Gus

I am linking to a powerful TED talk about the state of American food and health.  It is particularly revealing at showing the absolute contradiction between putting profit ahead of everything and the complex moral relationships that make up human … Read more

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An argument for why abortion should be the right of the woman, and everyone else has no standing at all on the issue.

Posted on July 15, 2013July 15, 2013 by Gus

I have been on a long trip these past few weeks. During it a woman sent me a thoughtful email explaining why she thought abortion was wrong. As I agreed with her premises, but not her conclusion, I decided to … Read more

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Understanding Democracy, part III: Democracy as a spontaneous order

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Gus

I was out of town at our first “Cosmos and Taxis” conference in Vancouver, BC. Now that I am back I am picking up my series of mini-essays on what democracies are and why so many do not understand them.… Read more

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Understanding Democracy II: Fallacies about majority rule

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Gus

Today it is common to define democracy as a system of “majority rule.” Unfortunately. This claim is false in three senses. First, except in very small and homogeneous polities, perhaps a village, there is no “majority” that could “rule” in … Read more

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