Thursday, May 30, 2013

Slippery Slopes



Progressive Christians often decry the use of the “slippery slope” argument when it suits them.  One example here.  On the one hand, I see their point.  I recall the old line from my early days that one drink necessarily leads to alcoholism or one rock and roll riff leads inevitably to Satan worship.  

There is a problem with such arguments that progressives would be correct in opposing if they stated the problem correctly.  It is fallacious to say that because some who have taken step A wind up at point Z, it is true that taking step A will always and inevitably lead to step Z.   Of course that is not the case, but I don’t think anybody ever said it was.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

What Difference Does It Make?


Interesting stuff coming out of Washington since Steve Hayes at the Weekly Standard produced three different versions of "talking points" eventually used by Susan Rice to blame the attack on the Consulate in Benghazi Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stephens and three others on an anti-Muslim video.

Even  ABC news has reported that the talking points underwent 12 revisions.  Jay Carney had claimed only single edit.  We now know that is untrue and that the decision to make the changes came from the State Department.

Scour the internet and even Mother Jones and the Huffington post are now paying attention to the story.

One might ask "What difference does it make?" to a blogger who mainly is concerned with theological issues.  (More)