2.)This past semester, in her Intro to Accounting class, students took the midterm online—but in a proctored classroom using a browser that alerted teaching assistants if anyone navigated out of the exam in search of illicit information. To access the browser, students had to log in with a...
“Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted—in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in ...
Blasphemy, defined as mocking someone's god, is the most popular capital sin in most religions. I prefer keeping my head by promoting presumption instead. The preachers who irritate me most are those who presume and thus purport to speak for whatever god or Olympus they are selling. Well tod...
For example, I actually believe, as an evaluation of objective truth, that Islam was founded specifically as a blasphemy of Catholicism that deified text as a substitute for living _logos_; and particularly that Koranic recitation replaced the Eucharist just as Koranic content replaced the Scriptur...
I also think the bill is misguided, ambiguous, pushes a form of blasphemy law (though probably not in the U.S.), and would be unconstitutional in America because it privileges one religion—Islam—over all others. We need no such bills: no “anti-Semitism department” bills, not “anti-...
"Blasphemy against the Almighty is denying his being or providence, or uttering contumelious reproaches on our Savior Christ. It is punished, at common law by fine and imprisonment, for Christianity is part of the laws of the land. "If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to ...