From Joshua

• Is the paleoanthropologists’ “great leap forward” the Abrahamic religions’ “fall”? Could it be that some four to five hundred centuries ago (not a long time at all, geologically speaking), our first parents were infused with that divine spark of reason that comes with the human spiritual soul and first endowed with the gift of language, bequeathing both reason and language, and all that come with them, to their progeny, even after that first sin? That divine spark is essentially what I believe; I don’t get into the how of creation.
• America’s dirty bombs.
• LRC: Fred Reed’s hard truths to troops.
• Ron Paul antes up on abortion.
• Bacevich and Buchanan on Obama’s war. Seen on FB: Saw one of those bumper stickers for Obama with the O as a peace sign. Wanted to ask: ‘So, how’s that working out for you?’
• Quit Iraq!
• Brave New World among top 10 books Americans want banned.

Labels: Iraq, peace, politics, the Catholic faith