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“Christians increasingly live on a spiritual island; new and rival ways of life surround it in all directions and their tides come further up the beach every time. None of these new ways is yet so filthy or cruel as some Semitic Paganism. But many of them ignore all individual rights and are already cruel…
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Sort of sounds like the title to a horror movie, and in some respects, it is. It is a horror of poor logic and argumentation…though perhaps what makes it worse is that many do it on purpose. The idea of an argument of a straw man goes back to 1886 according to Marriam-Webster, though…
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“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”