There are several parts of MLK’s great “I have a dream” speech that are of crucial importance in an age where “Freedom” and “Justice” have been redefined as “rights to have without work” rather than “rights to work to achieve.” Where they have become not “rights to be judged by the quality...
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January 20, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Society
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Here is just one expert from a true philosophical masterpiece on issues of social justice. Thomas Sowell in The Quest for Cosmic Justice pages 78-79 considers the dangers of misguided envy as promoted by warped visions of reality in many pursuits of Social Justice. “For the currently less...
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January 13, 2014 Andrew Sargent
Society
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In his book THE QUEST FOR COSMIS JUSTICE, Sowell discusses the internal demand by many to forcibly equalize every inequality, even natural inequalities. Equality has become, not about processes and essence of humanity, but about final outcomes. Some pursue this form of “social justice,” with abandon, as if...
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December 19, 2013 Andrew Sargent
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http://sarahchristineschwartz.com/2013/11/06/brothers-i-am-sorry To the author of “Brothers, I am Sorry,” which you can read at the above address. Dear Sarah, you are young, and have much to learn about the difference between reasons and excuses, what we wish about reality and what is reality. While I, like you, was not...
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December 5, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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I have had the honor of being a guest blogger at Scribblepreach, a blog about preaching, writing, and other aspects of communication. I recommend it. My post is called Safari Guide, Treasure Hunter, Biblical Theologian You can find it at…. http://scribblepreach.com/2013/11/22/guest-blog-safari-guide-treasure-hunter-biblical-theologian/
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November 23, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Contexualization, Society
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I was at a low place one Father’s Day when I’d first begun my PhD. I did not know it at the time, but I was six months down my four year road with sleep apnea, which came on suddenly after a severe illness and ended just as...
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November 7, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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I have been greatly enriched by the writings of Thomas Sowell. Here is another great little article by the man. http://drudgegae.iavian.net/r?hop=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/22/sowell-the-race-hustlers-among-us/
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October 29, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Society
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Yes, I know that the constant attempt by various fields of scientific study to catalogue diseases by symptoms rather than isolated causes often leads to shifting labels and that split personalities, what is now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder, is no longer catalogued as a form of...
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October 10, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Society
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Strolling with my wife today we happened upon a woman walking her dog. She had paused ahead, tying her shoe (or so we thought) and we closed the gap between us. She moved on quickly as we drew near (to run from the scene of the crime obviously)...
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September 19, 2013 Andrew Sargent
Communication, Society
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