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'Beheaded babies': Horrific atrocity or propaganda?

In the public discourse over the Hamas-Israel conflict, one claim has suddenly taken center stage: that babies not only died in the violence, but that some were beheaded by Hamas. The difference is everything. The former might be a tragic by-product of the indiscriminate violence of war. The latter

When a human individual is worshipped, criticism is blasphemy

In the process of turning a person into an unassailable god, we gradually open ourselves and others to overwhelming danger.

Theological arguments about...wet dreams

Natural law proponents use Aristotle and Aquinas to argue against ideas concerning sexual acts. Here, author Gunther Laird takes aim at their defenses.

How Russia is waging war...on me

As the war in Ukraine rages on, Russia's war efforts are not restricted to battlefields of Bakhmut. Instead, they stretch across the internet. And through my support of the truth in the Ukraine war, I have managed to find myself in their sights.

The blind defenses of Russell Brand

Comedian, actor, raconteur, and of-late YouTuber Russell Brand has recently been accused of a number of sexual offenses. This has set social and mainstream media alight with opinions ranging from "I told you so" to "say it ain't so" to "stand with Brand.

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