Archive for: June 2009

Turning lead into gold

While we deplore the murder of Dr. George Tiller, we sometimes find the "end justifies the means" philosophy that drove his murderer quite useful.
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Sunset colors

Yucca plant at sunset.
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Blind faith

It's ironic how much blind faith is required to live in the modern world. Technology forces us to put our complete trust in things we do not, and cannot, understand. We must live by faith or live in paralysis.
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The ethics of murder

Faced with the callous determination of the Third Reich to murder innocent Jews, Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer discarded his commitment to pacifism and joined in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Are there moral lessons here for our time?
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