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Well, where does the buck stop in these sorts of questions for you? The Supreme Court? Yourself? If you were in an important decision making position--which you may be, we don't know--where and how do you draw the line? Just curious, since you seem comfortable with all of this, if you had to...

Actually, this appointment makes perfect sense. In modern western civilization, it's not "science" unless it is totally divorced from any notions of morality or the understanding that we are answerable to a higher authority than our current earthly handlers. There are LOTS of people who have...

This is just a totally blind shot in the dark, but maybe Dolan's decisions to associate with these "questionable" characters are not of his own free will. Money and perceived fame are only a few of the powerful motivators of human behavior. There are darker ones as well ... I, too, hope he'll...

Here's an interesting article on hearing voices. According to this, it's pretty common, and doesn't seem as "paranormal" or indicative of mental illness as some may tend to assume. You don't have to write a book, but could you detail some of the "information" that was revealed to you--like...

And there once was a man named LTC Philip Corso. He was a career military veteran with an absolutely tremendous resume of professional accomplishments, and he could look right into a video camera and tell, with the greatest ease and mastery of names, locations, dates, and events the most...

David, you know very well the experience Mother Teresa expressed in her personal letters is a concept very familiar to spiritual traditions the world over: "the dark night of the soul." That reporter lamely tries to twist this into a claim that Mother Teresa lost her faith or didn't believe in...

Oh that's lovely: A hateful propaganda film that features a former "insider" of Mother Teresa's "cult of death and suffering", as Hitchens defines The Missionaries of Charity, comparing her order's shelters to Nazi death camps! An 8 minute segment of that crap is more than enough. And some of...

The Framers seemed to think so. Even the simple act of using a term like "human being" means we have an understanding of what constitutes human nature as a metaphysical reality, and that understanding has to have a grounding in something. Natural selection, survival of the fittest, might...

How do I know if what I'm doing is a "good" thing? Whose definition of that word can I accept? It can't be totally up to me, or you, or the whims of each individual to decide, because then we just spiral into never-ending multilayered battles of individual wills to power. We've seen that...

Agreed!!! Faith and reason inform one another.

(left to right) Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez- martyred during mass while saying his homily, 1980; Blessed Omeljan Kovc- martyred at Majdanek 1944 for aiding Jews; (bottom) Mother Teresa of Calcutta- needs no introduction I want to meet the God these folks lived and died...

You're not the only one. Sometimes I ask myself why I can't just listen to the programs and leave it at that ... David, I really hope that deep down you don't mean it. FWIW: I was raised Catholic, grew up in a rural "folkish" area where my immigrant ancestors built the church I grew up...

Ha, Ha ... Now that we've made ourselves feel better, let's find someone else whose human dignity we can spit on. Very classy ...

I'm hooked on the show, and feel Dave and Gene are a talk show dream team! I spend at least an hour with them each day as I am still trying to catch up with as many archived shows as I can. The listener roundtable, however, was one of the weakest Paracasts, in my opinion. It was one of the...

I should apologize. I wrote first, asked questions later :o Now I agree with that 100%. And that's the thing I really appreciate about your posts: you will listen to other people and be fair to them. I think you are one of the only truly "open-minded" people here!!!! :)

But the choices we make are based in judgements we make of the rightness and wrongness of certain actions, attitudes, values, etc. Of course whether we are right or wrong matters! The Bush Administration chose to invade Iraq on illegitimate grounds. Their arguments didn't come within light years...

I can't stand this bigotry towards religious people! I'm cruising along, enjoying the Paracast and the forums, minding my own business, then things like this always pop up, and I can't help but make some little response. Here's a couple of links to articles that I think are helpful: "The...

Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of our veterans for making all that we are able to do here possible. A grateful nation thanks you and your families for your profound sacrifices ...

Enrico Caruso was the greatest vocalist there ever was and ever will be. In addition to his unearthly vocal talent, he was a pioneer in the music recording industry, of which all of these other contemporary upstarts are the beneficiaries of :) Caruso with Hellen Keller

The listener panel was an okay experiment, but I think the strongest programs are those where Gene and Dave interview a guest who has a level of expertise and a ready grasp of a great deal of information on particular mysterious cases, or when they take turns cross-examining individuals who have...