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I just watched Madonna’s live performance at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis. She’s still got it.

And that’s because gay unions don’t benefit society, Rick Santorum says. And why are we not beneficial to society? Apparently, because we can’t have children. This, in an ironic twist, motivates the discrimination that makes it more difficult for gay people to have a family. The argument is ridiculously circular.

What matters is our families, we live our lives in our families.

Rupert Sheldrake has written a new book, The Science Delusion.

Ruth Eglash writes about a proposed Israeli law resembling Sweden’s failed anti-prostitution laws.

I might have misread the article by Eric Wadenius I wrote about earlier today.

In an update, Wadenius stresses that he only meant to disprove the kalām cosmological argument for the existence of God, and he says he defines the Universe as “everything that ever existed”. I now notice that he did write that, but as I have been taught that the Universe by this definition only refers to matter, I assumed he meant all matter that has ever existed.

I want to add that I personally think proving—or disproving—God’s existence is meaningless. If something is beyond our universe, we cannot validate it, which is a requirement for the correspondence theory of truth. I’m more interested in the moral argument since I think ethics needs an idea about objectivity—but that argument has nothing to do with correspondence, it deals entirely with rational necessity.

To the Greeks, what is beautiful is holy; to the Jews, what is holy is beautiful.

Hilarious!

Frank J. Fleming:

Thinking leads to opinions, and opinions eradicate apathy. Instead, you just need to shrug your shoulders and say, “Eh.”

Whatever.

Seems we don’t know about all human tribes.

Some people say religion is harmful to children; I’d say politics is worse.

Lousy actor and crazy leftist personality Roseanne Barr is campaigning to become the American Green Party’s candidate for president. Green? She looks more grey nowadays.

It’s a gay obligation to notice the new Madonna video. I’m not sure I really like the song, but hey, she’s still absolutely fabulous!

Ginsberg, Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood, Edward Albee, Edmund White… The Economist on gay writing in America.

Gay activists want recognition for same-sex love and marriage, the homophobes browse pornographic websites. Here’s some intense Ugandan hate speech against gay people.

By the way, does anyone really think that “fist-fucking”, anilingus, and coprophilia—defined by the Oxford Dictionary as the “abnormal interest and pleasure in faeces and defecation”—is exclusively homosexual? It’s not.

Atheist fanatic and naturalist homophobe Eric Wadenius has made an attempt to prove that God doesn’t exist:

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause
2. The Universe began to exist
3. The Universe is defined as “all that exists”
Therefore:
4. All that exists must also have a cause
5. God is defined as something that does not have a cause
Therefore:
6. God does not exist

Well, if the Universe has to be caused by something and that something doesn’t exist, doesn’t the rationale point to the conclusion that we don’t exist?

Assume that I create a time-limited computer program able to write new code. After only a generation, every code that exists within the program is caused by evolution. After a few generations, everything that exists is caused by a self-evolved program with no resemblance to my original code. Does this, by itself, prove that I don’t exist? I say no. All it proves is that I’m no longer needed for the program to exist.

Update: In an update, Wadenius stresses that he only meant to disprove the kalām cosmological argument for the existence of God, and he says he defines the Universe as “everything that ever existed”. I now notice that he did write that, but as I have been taught that the Universe by this definition only refers to matter, I assumed he meant all matter that has ever existed.

“A debate about homosexuality in Islam is beginning,” The Economist writes. Well, the debate is not entirely new. NN has made her voice heard for quite a few years now, and Syrian-Dutch academic Omar Nahas published his ground-breaking book Islam en homoseksualiteit in 2001.

It’s Friday. It’s been a busy day, so I haven’t had the time to blog today. I will do better tomorrow. Shabbat shalom!

שבת שלום!

If so, it’s about time.

According to Wikipedia, Sweden has the third highest rate of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe. I don’t know if this is true, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is.