abotage. What would you do if you really wanted to sabotage any organisation? Well, here are the CIA’s recommendations from 1944.
Archive for November, 2008
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o one is immune from the deadly vice of dullness. As a congregation member I find it very difficult to listen to a dull sermon. It is hard to keep from drifting mentally while one’s eyes take on a certain sort of fixed stare. And when I catch myself my immediate reaction is to blame the sermon–rather than, rightly, working harder as a listener.
emember Richard Dawkins, prophet of the new religious atheism and author of The God Delusion
In a thoughtful and interesting article, Melanie Phillips at the Spectator points out that last month in public debate Dawkins observed that “a serious case could be made for a deistic God.” It’s not clear what that means for Dawkins’ debate so far. Admitting past error is likely to be one of the hardest things for a charismatic debater like Dawkins to do. But it will be interesting to see how Dawkins puts together his argument again, this time without simply discounting ‘the God delusion.’
This admission is no doubt in part to Dawkins’ involvement in lively debate with fellow scientists, for example this debate with John Lennox.
omplaining about the prominence that the issue of slavery played in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, historian J. G. Randall wrote:
“With all the problems that might have been put before the people as proper matter for their consideration in choosing a senator–choice of government servants, immigration, the tariff, international policy, promotion of education, west ward extension of railroads, the opening of new lands for homesteads, protection against greedy exploitation of those lands … encouragement to settlers … improving the condition of factory workers, and alleviating those agrarian grievances that were to plague the coming decades–with such issues facing the country, those two candidates for the Senate talked as if there were only one issue.”
