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Quote: The morality of conscience

Conscience is what enables man to rise above being a prisoner of his inclinations … Conscience enables us to go beyond what feels good and to do what is right

Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity, Regnery Publishing 2007… Continue reading Quote: The morality of conscience

Dinesh D’Souza and evolutionary theory - a short take on his evolutionary defence

What’s so great about Christianity, by Dinesh D’Souza, has so far been a great read. He provides a detailed account of historical Christianity and proceeds to demonstrate the positives that Christianity has since brought into the world - and which, he argues, would not have come if Christianity did not exist. He claims that Western society today has benefited greatly from a Christian heritage - and that it is this same heritage that society has slowly - and voraciously - been turning against.

Our Western cultures today now bite the hands that fed them - the irony is that the tools in which anti-theists in general, and anti-Christians in particular, now wield have been afforded to them by the spread of Christianity. The cherished freedom… Continue reading Dinesh D'Souza and evolutionary theory - a short take on his evolutionary defence