Posted on April 7, 2007 by Peter Schellhase
When sex is “free,” it is valued less; the sense of wonder that it ought to create is diminished; it does not provoke the kind of soul-searching and development that ought to accompany a young person’s rise to adulthood. A young person ought to struggle until love, reason, sex, faith, and virtue are brought together in an understanding of what it truly means to be human. Humanity means not only being the greatest of the animals, but being as far superior to them as they are to the inanimate things.
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Posted on March 7, 2007 by Peter Schellhase
Driving back to school I was listening to this opening paragraph from Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and it stuck in my mind, as it seemed to show, not only an insight for paradox, but a keen and perceptive understanding of the nature of the French Revolution and its adversaries.
IT WAS the best [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2006 by Peter Schellhase
From Abraham Kuyper: A Christian Worldview.
1. The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
2. Christians confess the relevance of God’s Word even for politics, rejecting a vague concept of natural law or human [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2006 by Peter Schellhase
“Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in judical validity.”
“A civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding law . . . [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2006 by Peter Schellhase
“You can just see how unwanted pregnancy will join obesity and smoking as unacceptable behavior in polite society.”
I suppose I could just see that. This quote gets my award for being at once sickening and hilarious. What kind of brainwashed person would even think something like that? It used to be that people supported abortion [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2006 by Peter Schellhase
A scientist has discovered a process to manufacture cells that seem to have the same potential as embryonic stem cells from adult stem cells.
Maybe science doesn’t have to be morally ambiguous after all!
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS01/607200402
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