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Avowed – Part II (Conclusion)

Bernard’s mood lightened suddenly and he began shushing Pauline, before lowering his voice and leaning his head over the table.  “What you heard is true,” he told her with a mock-serious tone of voice.  Then he confided that there really … Continue reading

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Avowed – Part I

Bernard kept a cutout newspaper article folded and stuffed in his wallet.  The article’s story went like this: A middle-aged man with mottled skin and ratty clothes pushed his way through the throngs entering and exiting St. Peter’s Square until … Continue reading

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Dogma as a Smokescreen and Weapon Against Marriage Equality

As predicted, and feared, foes of marriage equality in the great state of Washington have filed more than enough signatures to put the issue on the November ballot.  The Washington secretary of state office recommends those seeking to put an … Continue reading

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Ptolemaic Logic

Ptolemy was an Egyptian-born Roman philosopher and scientist who lived around the First and Second centuries AD.  He’s best known for the Ptolemaic System of the universe, an expansion of Aristotle’s view that the Earth laid at the center of … Continue reading

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