The Mental Whiplash Epidemic
A condition best termed “mental whiplash” is approaching epidemic proportions in the United States. It is called this because of [...]
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09, 2021
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03, 2021
Goodbye Logic, R.I.P.
Logic may be defined as a system of thinking that produces reasonable decisions and judgments about problems and issues large [...]
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01, 2021
Understanding the Division Over Trump
Why does one half the country deplore Donald Trump while the other half esteems him? As one who began on [...]
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05, 2019
Ideas That Are Destroying America
Many writers have lamented America’s moral and intellectual decline but few have identified the cause. I submit that it is [...]
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01, 2019
“My Truth,” “Your Truth,” THE Truth
For millennia, people naturally, almost instinctively, understood that truth is objective rather than subjective. In other words, truth is what [...]
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01, 2019
The Relationship Between Theology and Logic
In modern Catholicism, the term “theology” is often linked to Church doctrine, much of which is regarded as definitive, and [...]
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10, 2017
When Prayer Becomes Propaganda
At first glance, the prayer that Father James Martin, S.J. recently published in America, the magazine he edits, seems a heartfelt [...]
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08, 2017
The Age of the Double Standard
Applying a double standard means minimizing or overlooking the lapses in logic or ethics of people we like or agree [...]
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06, 2015
O’Reilly’s “Potential Human Being”
When Bill O’Reilly used the term “potential human being” to describe a human fetus in 2011, Catholic Online (among other [...]
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05, 2015
Politicians Abusing Logic
When a spokesman was asked whether the State Department would investigate allegations that Hillary had misused her office, he replied, [...]