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		<title>quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20100204-2001/quote-of-the-day-38</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. &#8230; Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.&#8221; &#8211; James Madison<sup id="fnref:2010020401"><a href="#fn:2010020401" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. James Madison, quoted in &#8220;Rethinking Power We Give Government: Part 2 of 2&#8243;, National Catholic Register Blogs.  Viewed 2010-02-04. <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/rethinking_the_power_we_give_government_part_2_of_2">http://www.ncregister.com/blog/rethinking_the_power_we_give_government_part_2_of_2</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:2010020401" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090724-0819/quote-of-the-day-37</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Catholic teaching on subsidiarity and the American tradition of federalism – to say nothing of simple realism about what happens when large state bureaucracies get extensive power – should here join hands in proper wariness about the unintended consequences of efforts to do good.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Royal1 Mr. Robert Royal. &#8220;The U.S. Bishops on Health [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Catholic teaching on subsidiarity and the American tradition of federalism – to say nothing of simple realism about what happens when large state bureaucracies get extensive power – should here join hands in proper wariness about the unintended consequences of efforts to do good.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Royal<sup id="fnref:2009072401"><a href="#fn:2009072401" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. Robert Royal.  &#8220;The U.S. Bishops on Health Care&#8221; The Catholic Thing.  2009-07-23 <a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1946&amp;Itemid=2">http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1946&amp;Itemid=2</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:2009072401" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20090529-2156/quote-of-the-day-36</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 01:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Given his selfish nature, man must internalize some reason to behave in pro-social ways. That fact that he falls short of these values does not mean he is a hypocrite. The one who does not even believe what he says is the hypocrite. The one who believes what he says and falls short is merely [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Given his selfish nature, man must internalize some reason to behave in pro-social ways. That fact that he falls short of these values does not mean he is a hypocrite. The one who does not even believe what he says is the hypocrite. The one who believes what he says and falls short is merely human.&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Mike Adams<sup id="fnref:20090531-1"><a href="#fn:20090531-1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Dr. Mike Adams.  &#8220;The Nature of Conservatism&#8221; Townhall.com 2009-05-18 viewed 2009-05-31.  <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/05/18/the_nature_of_conservatism">http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/05/18/the_nature_of_conservatism</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:20090531-1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Explaining</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-1427/explaining</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quote1 actually says science != consensus politics == consensus science == &#x2203; X such that ((X == investigator) &#38;&#38; (X == &#8220;correct&#8221;); where (&#8220;correct&#8221; == &#8220;results are verifiable in reference to the real world&#8221;)) The problem is that skepticism does not reign throughout much of science. Rather, dogmatism reigns. Anyone who dissents is silenced. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The quote<sup id="fnref:20081114-3"><a href="#fn:20081114-3" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> actually says</p>

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<li>science != consensus </li>
<li>politics == consensus </li>
<li>science == &#x2203; X such that ((X == investigator) &amp;&amp; (X == &#8220;correct&#8221;); where (&#8220;correct&#8221; == &#8220;results are verifiable in reference to the real world&#8221;))</li>
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<p>The problem is that skepticism does <em>not</em> reign throughout much of science.  Rather, dogmatism reigns.  Anyone who dissents is silenced.  If the environment we have today existed, Einstein would not have been able to publish, he upset too many careers.  But back then the science journals were not as tightly controlled as they are now, and it was more possible then for a radical idea to get published.</p>

<p>It is then asked, &#8220;what does it mean to say <em>in reference to the real world</em>.&#8221;<sup id="fnref:20081114-4"><a href="#fn:20081114-4" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>  A valid question.  What is meant here is that results have to bear out, taking relativity for an example again, we can see that the data fits better than Newtonian physics.  However, Global Warming doesn&#8217;t account for a great deal of the data out there.  Relativity fits the real world.  Global warming is questionable at best.</p>

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<p>Mr. Luke Schierer. &#8220;Quote of the Day&#8221; Random Unfinished Thoughts. 2008-11-14 <a href="http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-0722/quote-of-the-day-35">http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-0722/quote-of-the-day-35</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:20081114-3" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;damian792&#8243;.  &#8220;Ramblings&#8221; The Clydesdale Chronicles 2008-11-14 <a href="http://damian792.livejournal.com/100114.html">http://damian792.livejournal.com/100114.html</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:20081114-4" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20081114-0722/quote-of-the-day-35</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.&#8221; &#8211; Michael Crichton<sup id="fnref:20081114-1"><a href="#fn:20081114-1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Michael Crichton.  &#8220;<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122603134258207975.html?mod=djemEditorialPage">Aliens Cause Global Warming</a>&#8221; reprinted in Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2008.  Quote seen on &#8220;Evolution News &amp; Views&#8221; blog post &#8220;Is There a “Consensus” in Science? Remembering the Late Michael Crichton&#8221; by Mr. Casey Luskin <a href="http://www.evolutionnews.org/2008/11/is_there_a_consensus_in_scienc.html">http://www.evolutionnews.org/2008/11/is_there_a_consensus_in_scienc.html</a> 2008-11-14.&#160;<a href="#fnref:20081114-1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20080927-0717/quote-of-the-day-34</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world&#8217;s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.&#8221; &#8211; Alexander Tyler (A Scottish professor)<sup id="fnref:20080927-1"><a href="#fn:20080927-1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Quote found in &#8220;The Financial Crisis Congress Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Understand&#8221; by Mrs. Candice Watters in The Line.  2008-09-25. <a href="http://www.boundlessline.org/2008/09/the-financial-c.html">http://www.boundlessline.org/2008/09/the-financial-c.html</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:20080927-1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Block quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20080919-0657/block-quote-of-the-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No endorsement of any single issue qualifies a person to hold public office. Being pro-life does not make a person a good governor, mayor, or president. But there are numerous single issues that disqualify a person from public office. For example, any candidate who endorsed bribery as a form of government efficiency would be disqualified, [...]]]></description>
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<p>No endorsement of any single issue qualifies a person to hold public office. Being pro-life does not make a person a good governor, mayor, or president. But there are numerous single issues that disqualify a person from public office. For example, any candidate who endorsed bribery as a form of government efficiency would be disqualified, no matter what his party or platform was. Or a person who endorsed corporate fraud (say under $50 million) would be disqualified no matter what else he endorsed. Or a person who said that no black people could hold office—on that single issue alone he would be unfit for office. Or a person who said that rape is only a misdemeanor—that single issue would end his political career. These examples could go on and on. Everybody knows a single issue that for them would disqualify a candidate for office.<sup id="fnref:20080919-1"><a href="#fn:20080919-1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. John Piper.  &#8220;One-Issue Politics, One-Issue Marriage, and the Humane Society&#8221; <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/">Desiring God</a>.  1995-01-01 <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1995/1524_OneIssue_Politics_OneIssue_Marriage_and_the_Humane_Society/">http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1995/1524_OneIssue_Politics_OneIssue_Marriage_and_the_Humane_Society/</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:20080919-1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20080306-1242/quote-of-the-day-33</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How can I explain these things, so obvious, and yet so invisible to those who think that &#8220;it&#8217;s all about sex&#8221;? Difference of sex makes a difference, but what kind? Perhaps I should leave it at this: To a man, women seem to glow in more hues than men do. In different ones too. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How can I explain these things, so obvious, and yet so invisible to those who think that &#8220;it&#8217;s all about sex&#8221;? Difference of sex makes a difference, but what kind? Perhaps I should leave it at this: To a man, women seem to glow in more hues than men do. In different ones too. The spectrum is wider, the world has more color, because of their presence in it, especially the presence of the beloved. Of course there are certain things which a normal man prefers to do with other men, like playing tackle football. Yet the very light and air seem to change when a woman leaves the room, and all men know it. Obviously this fact is connected with her bodily presence, but it isn&#8217;t about imagining her naked.&#8221; &#8211; J. Budziszewski aka Professor Theophilus<sup id="fnref:200803061"><a href="#fn:200803061" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

<p>An excellent quote by one of the better Focus on the Family authors.</p>

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<p>J. . Budziszewski aka Professor Theophilus.  &#8220;Ask Theophilus: Advice to the Lustlorn&#8221; 2008-03-06 <a href="http://www.trueu.org/Academics/ProfsOffice/askTheo/A000000876.cfm#fn2">http://www.trueu.org/Academics/ProfsOffice/askTheo/A000000876.cfm#fn2</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200803061" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20080125-1235/quote-of-the-day-32</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The fact that there is a great divide between what education ought to be and what it actually is suggests that there is someone who is benefiting from the status quo.&#8221; &#8211; Ms. Melinda Selmys1 Ms. Melinda Selmys. &#8220;The Cluelessness Crisis Part 1: The 5 Essentials of Education&#8221; The National Catholic Registrar. January 27- February [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The fact that there is a great divide between what education ought to be and what it actually is suggests that there is someone who is benefiting from the status quo.&#8221; &#8211; Ms. Melinda Selmys<sup id="fnref:200801251"><a href="#fn:200801251" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Ms. Melinda Selmys.  &#8220;The Cluelessness Crisis Part 1: The 5 Essentials of Education&#8221;  The National Catholic Registrar.  January 27- February 2, 2008 Issue.  2008-01-25 <a href="http://ncregister.com/site/article/7852/">http://ncregister.com/site/article/7852/</a> A subscription may be required to view this article online.&#160;<a href="#fnref:200801251" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy&#8217;s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.&#8221; &#8211; C. S. Lewis, _The Screwtape Letters_</p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20071127-1408/quote-of-the-day-30</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This does not mean that we should never take action to prevent evil, or should sit back and wait for God to do something. It does mean that we should not panic, or become needlessly anxious, or jump to rash conclusions, which may cause more harm than good.&#8221; &#8211; Melinda Selmys1 The &#8220;This&#8221; above refers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;This does not mean that we should never take action to prevent evil, or should sit back and wait for God to do something. It does mean that we should not panic, or become needlessly anxious, or jump to rash conclusions, which may cause more harm than good.&#8221; &#8211; Melinda Selmys<sup id="fnref:200711271"><a href="#fn:200711271" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

<p>The &#8220;This&#8221; above refers to Christ&#8217;s command that we be not afraid.</p>

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<p>Ms. Melinda Sylmys. &#8220;Faith in a Climate of Fear&#8221;  National Catholic Register.  November 25 &#8211; December 1, 2007 Issue.  2007-11-27 <a href="http://ncregister.com/site/article/7341/">http://ncregister.com/site/article/7341/</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200711271" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN agencies constantly use the number 500,000+ as the number of women worldwide who die each year from complications from pregnancy. They go on to use that number as a reason for abortion to be legalized. The problem is the number cannot be substantiated since most countries do not report data on deaths at all [...]]]></description>
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<p>UN agencies constantly use the number 500,000+ as the number of women worldwide who die each year from complications from pregnancy. They go on to use that number as a reason for abortion to be legalized. The problem is the number cannot be substantiated since most countries do not report data on deaths at all let alone deaths from maternal causes. Even these UN agencies admit that mortality figures are almost universally unavailable yet they insist on using this phony number.<sup id="fnref:200711011"><a href="#fn:200711011" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. Austin Ruse.  &#8220;UN Agencies use Suspect Number on Maternal Deaths to Promote Global Abortion&#8221;  Friday Fax Volume 10, Number 46.  2007-11-01.&#160;<a href="#fnref:200711011" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20071030-1255/quote-of-the-day-28</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;freedom of religion is much more than the freedom to worship; it is the freedom to act according to that belief in the service of others.&#8221; &#8211; Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor1 Quoted by Father John Flynn, LC in &#8220;Imposing &#8216;Tolerance&#8217;: Christians Obliged to Approve Homosexuality&#8221; ZENIT 2007-10-29 http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-20867&#160;&#8617;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;freedom of religion is much more than the freedom to worship; it is the freedom to act according to that belief in the service of others.&#8221; &#8211; Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#8217;Connor<sup id="fnref:200710301"><a href="#fn:200710301" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Quoted by Father John Flynn, LC in &#8220;Imposing &#8216;Tolerance&#8217;: Christians Obliged to Approve Homosexuality&#8221;  ZENIT 2007-10-29 <a href="http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-20867">http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-20867</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200710301" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Which religion, whose adherents accept the tenets of that religion as the truth about God, does not regard adherents of other faiths as holding imperfect theological notions? If religious belief is important, then to accept more perfect beliefs is to be more perfect.&#8221; &#8211; David Klinghoffer1 Mr. David Klinghoffer. &#8220;Tribe and Truth: Ann Coulter, Theologian&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Which religion, whose adherents accept the tenets of that religion as the truth about God, does not regard adherents of other faiths as holding imperfect theological notions? If religious belief is important, then to accept more perfect beliefs is to be more perfect.&#8221; &#8211; David Klinghoffer<sup id="fnref:200710181"><a href="#fn:200710181" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. David Klinghoffer.  &#8220;Tribe and Truth: Ann Coulter, Theologian&#8221;  The Discovery Institute, <a href="http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&amp;id=4258&amp;program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20Article&amp;callingPage=discoMainPage">http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&amp;id=4258&amp;program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20Article&amp;callingPage=discoMainPage</a>.  Originally published in the National Review, 2007-10-16.&#160;<a href="#fnref:200710181" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Scientism’s dismissals are &#x2026; self-refuting. Those dismissals are also vacuous, as if affixing the label non-science to an argument tells us anything meaningful about the strength of the argument. The “it isn’t science” response to contemporary design arguments is neither a reasonable nor a particularly stimulating reply. In such cases, the mathematical/empirical approach has degenerated [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Scientism’s dismissals are &#x2026; self-refuting.<br />
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Those dismissals are also vacuous, as if affixing the label non-science to an argument tells us anything meaningful about the strength of the argument. The “it isn’t science” response to contemporary design arguments is neither a reasonable nor a particularly stimulating reply. In such cases, the mathematical/empirical approach has degenerated from a way of thinking into a way of stopping thought, a Procrustean bed for chopping off and discarding whatever doesn’t fit within its narrow confines. &#8221; &#8211; Benjamin D. Wiker and Jonathan Witt<sup id="fnref:200710151"><a href="#fn:200710151" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Benjamin D. Wiker and Jonathan Witt.  &#8220;Pope Benedict and Nature’s Genius&#8221;  Discovery Institute&#8217;s Center for Science and Culture.  2007-10-01.  <a href="http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&amp;id=4241&amp;program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20Article&amp;callingPage=discoMainPage">http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&amp;id=4241&amp;program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20Article&amp;callingPage=discoMainPage</a> Originally in Crisis Magizine, <a href="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=803&amp;Itemid=48">http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=803&amp;Itemid=48</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200710151" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20070919-1140/quote-of-the-day-25</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.&#8221; &#8211; W. B. Yeats1 W. B. Yeats. &#8220;Mere anarchy&#8221; This quote found following up on a reference from baranoouji.&#160;&#8617;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br />
Are full of passionate intensity.&#8221; &#8211; W. B. Yeats<sup id="fnref:200709192"><a href="#fn:200709192" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>W. B. Yeats.  &#8220;Mere anarchy&#8221;  This quote found following up on a reference from <a href="http://baranoouji.livejournal.com/">baranoouji</a>.&#160;<a href="#fnref:200709192" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In our culture, it&#8217;s become accepted that men, by their nature, are brutes, jerks or buffoons, while women, by theirs, are loyal, smart and admirable. Men, bad. Women, good. That&#8217;s the underlying worldview of the majority of the entertainment, education and even public policy (laws) that surround us. &#8221; &#8211; Ms. Candice Watters1 Ms. Candice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;In our culture, it&#8217;s become accepted that men, by their nature, are brutes, jerks or buffoons, while women, by theirs, are loyal, smart and admirable. Men, bad. Women, good. That&#8217;s the underlying worldview of the majority of the entertainment, education and even public policy (laws) that surround us. &#8221; &#8211; Ms. Candice Watters<sup id="fnref:200709171"><a href="#fn:200709171" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Ms. Candice Watters.  &#8220;Becoming a Godly Woman&#8221;  Boundless Webzine, Focus on the Family.  2007-09-17.  <a href="http://www.boundless.org/2005/answers/a0001578.cfm">http://www.boundless.org/2005/answers/a0001578.cfm</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200709171" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As cosmopolitan urbanites, even the conservative among us like to think we are more tolerant, more liberal-minded than backwoods red-state America. And maybe we are. But perhaps this is only because it is easy for us to tolerate neighbors we do not know.&#8221; &#8211; Paul Gage1 Mr. Paul Gage. &#8220;New Doubts About Diversity’s Value&#8221; reprinted [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;As cosmopolitan urbanites, even the conservative among us like to think we are more tolerant, more liberal-minded than backwoods red-state America. And maybe we are. But perhaps this is only because it is easy for us to tolerate neighbors we do not know.&#8221; &#8211; Paul Gage<sup id="fnref:200709121"><a href="#fn:200709121" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. Paul Gage.  &#8220;New Doubts About Diversity’s Value&#8221;  reprinted at the Discovery Institute.  2007-09-12.  <a href="http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&amp;id=4216&amp;program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20Article&amp;callingPage=discoMainPage">http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&amp;id=4216&amp;program=DI%20Main%20Page%20-%20Article&amp;callingPage=discoMainPage</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200709121" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20070904-1029/quote-of-the-day-22</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You don’t hang on to a belief if it doesn’t hold up in real life.&#8221; &#8211; Ms. Karen Shablin1 Ms. Karen Shablin quoted in &#8220;Reaching Out to Congress Through Interns&#8221; National Catholic Register September 2-8, 2007 Issue. http://ncregister.com/site/article/3670/&#160;&#8617;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You don’t hang on to a belief if it doesn’t hold up in real life.&#8221; &#8211; Ms. Karen Shablin<sup id="fnref:200709041"><a href="#fn:200709041" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Ms. Karen Shablin quoted in &#8220;Reaching Out to Congress Through Interns&#8221; National Catholic Register September 2-8, 2007 Issue.  <a href="http://ncregister.com/site/article/3670/">http://ncregister.com/site/article/3670/</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200709041" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Americans are finally beginning to recognize the fatal self-interest at the heart of Planned Parenthood, and the essential lie on which it’s built: While it pretends to be neutral on life and death questions, it only makes big money when large numbers of babies die.&#8221; &#8211; Alan Sears1 Mr. Alan Sears. &#8220;Hanging on … But [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Americans are finally beginning to recognize the fatal self-interest at the heart of Planned Parenthood, and the essential lie on which it’s built: While it pretends to be neutral on life and death questions, it only makes big money when large numbers of babies die.&#8221; &#8211; Alan Sears<sup id="fnref:200708031"><a href="#fn:200708031" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. Alan Sears.  &#8220;Hanging on … But Not for Dear Life&#8221;  National Catholic Register 2007-07-31, 2007/08/05-11 Issue.  <a href="http://ncregister.com/site/article/3297/">http://ncregister.com/site/article/3297/</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:200708031" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The problem with science is not that the naturalistic approach might occasionally be inadequate. The problem is that science would never know any better. This is science&#8217;s blind spot. When problems are encountered, theological naturalism assumes that the correct naturalistic solution has not been found. Non-natural phenomena will be interpreted as natural, regardless of how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The problem with science is not that the naturalistic approach might occasionally be inadequate. The problem is that science would never know any better. This is science&#8217;s blind spot. When problems are encountered, theological naturalism assumes that the correct naturalistic solution has not been found. Non-natural phenomena will be interpreted as natural, regardless of how implausible the story becomes….&#8221; &#8211; Cornelius G. Hunter, Science&#8217;s Blind Spot: Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism, Brazos Press, 2007, pg. 44-45</p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20070711-1332/quote-of-the-day-19</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you’re killing mosquitoes to save people from the West Nile virus, you can count on secular environmentalists to lay down in front of the vapor truck, claiming some potential side effect that might result from the spray, but if birth control deforms fish — backed by the proof of an EPA study — and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If you’re killing mosquitoes to save people from the West Nile virus, you can count on secular environmentalists to lay down in front of the vapor truck, claiming some potential side effect that might result from the spray, but if birth control deforms fish — backed by the proof of an EPA study — and threatens the drinking supply, mum will be the word.&#8221; &#8211; George Harden<sup id="fnref:ncquote2"><a href="#fn:ncquote2" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

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<p>Mr. George Harden quoted by Mr. Wayne Laugesen.  &#8220;Contracepting the Environment&#8221;  National Catholic Register.  2007-07-15 <a href="http://ncregister.com/site/article/3151">http://ncregister.com/site/article/3151</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:ncquote2" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20070621-1140/quote-of-the-day-18</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If, as the editors of Nature claim, our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution, then the opinion that our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution is itself just the product of evolution.&#8221; &#8211; Michael Egnor1 In other words, if their theory is true, we cannot know it or prove it, because [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If, as the editors of Nature claim, our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution, then the opinion that our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution is itself just the product of evolution.&#8221; &#8211; Michael Egnor<sup id="fnref:evoquote1"><a href="#fn:evoquote1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>

<p>In other words, if their theory is true, we cannot know it or prove it, because there is no true intelligence to be doing the thinking.  It is all just the random interactions of random atoms.  In order for rational thought to proceed, we must assume that, whatever is true, materialist philosophy is false.</p>

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<p>Mr. Michael Egnor.  &#8220;The End of Stories: the Evolutionary Psychology of Evolutionary Psychology&#8221; Evolution News &amp; Views.  The Discovery Institute.  2007-06-21 <a href="http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/06/the_evolutionary_psychology_of.html">http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/06/the_evolutionary_psychology_of.html</a>&#160;<a href="#fnref:evoquote1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
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		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20070615-1032/quote-of-the-day-17</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Ten Commandments do not enshrine our highest values. They enshrine our lowest values. For it is the bare minimum of decency and common sense to say, “At the very least, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t commit adultery, have some respect for your parents, honor your Creator, etc.”&#8221; &#8211; Mark Shea]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Ten Commandments do not enshrine our highest values. They enshrine our lowest values. For it is the bare minimum of decency and common sense to say, “At the very least, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t commit adultery, have some respect for your parents, honor your Creator, etc.”&#8221; &#8211; Mark Shea</p>
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		<title>quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20070517-1528/quote-of-the-day-16</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 20:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Schierer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[T]he temptation to use power to secure the faith has arisen again and again in various forms throughout the centuries, and again and again faith has risked being suffocated in the embrace of power. The struggle for the freedom of the Church, the struggle to avoid identifying Jesus&#8217; Kingdom with any political structure, is one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;[T]he temptation to use power to secure the faith has arisen again and again in various forms throughout the centuries, and again and again faith has risked being suffocated in the embrace of power. The struggle for the freedom of the Church, the struggle to avoid identifying Jesus&#8217; Kingdom with any political structure, is one that has to be fought century after century. For the fusion of faith and political power always comes at a price: faith becomes the servant of power and must bend to its criteria.&#8221; &#8211; Pope Benedict XVI</p>
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