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I wrote the following essay for a philosophy class titled “Contemporary Moral Issues”. One of the main units was about the morality of abortion. Though one might think that a class at a major campus (UW Madison) in one of the most progressive cities in America would be anything but balanced, the arguments presented were …
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Among the most popular political pundits today is Ben Shapiro. Commanding the attention of tech-savvy millennial and Gen-Z conservatives, he is at the forefront of the burgeoning Internet-based conservative movement currently succeeding the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys of talk radio and cable TV.* In Shapiro’s most recent book, The Right Side of History, he …
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What follows is a paper I wrote for a class I took my first semester of college in the fall of 2017, titled “Philosophical Reflections on Science and Technology”. The class itself was my first formal introduction to the philosophical mode of thought and dialogue–we read writers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, and Neil …
In Christian discussions about soteriology (the doctrine of salvation), the greatest impasse between Calvinists and Arminians* is what’s known as proof-texting. With respect to the Bible, this is the practice of cherry-picking isolated, often out-of-context verses and eisegeting one’s view on to them. Using proof-texting, one can claim that practically anything, however outlandish, is supported …
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