Jonathan MS Pearce

I have been meaning to snap this picture of the sign outside my local church. It has been there for a good few years. Great circular reasoning! 16 All Scripture is inspired by

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IPSO, the press self-regulatory body, have recently released the stats concerning inaccurate claims that have been challenged and upheld: Staunch left-wing site Another Angry Voice reports it as follows: It's important

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I recently posted a link to a questionnaire that seeks to work out how utilitarian people are who take the test. It's very short, and has questions that some may want

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There is a very short utilitarian questionnaire from the University of Oxford Practical Ethics blog. Check it out. I scored 45, which is somewhat utilitarian. http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/test/how-utilitarian-are-you-the-oxford-utilitarianism-scale/

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I have appeared on the Naked Diner Podcast for the second time, and what an enjoyable experience it was. Check out the casual conversation. I hope it is to your liking. If you

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This is (only structurally) adapted from the great Ingersoll. Ingersoll nails a poignant idea here. HOW WOULD GOD FEEL THEN? Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) In the sixth chapter [of Matthew] I find the following,

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I'm not particularly nationalistic, but there are certain things that I rate about Britain, and one of them is our comedy. We have a rich variety of comedy and we can

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Holy cow. Get ready for this. I am not trying to be rhetorical here, but these are corkers, and none of them in a good way. The total lack of understanding is almost

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Steve Bannon, the Grim Reaper that sat menacingly behind Trump, has quit Breitbart News. The BBC have reported: Ex-Trump strategist Steve Bannon has stepped down from the right-wing Breitbart News organisation where he

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It's all so painful, watching apologists insist and insist on a thesis in light of it being thoroughly refuted. So here I go again, in some kind of masochistic use of

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As I have pointed out numerous times, the census as claimed in the Gospel of Luke, is simply incoherent.  I have given out a challenge to one of the commenters here. Here is

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I was recently presented with a sort of gotcha moment (at least, that's what the intention seemed to be) by a regular commenter, who asked: Speaking of meaning, what's

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