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Religious Intolerance? Faith vs Reason

Some long while ago, Voltaire said, ironically, that Man created God in his own image.  There are good reasons for that.  The reason an afterlife was so necessary was clear:  the Hebrews, for example, lived in conditions so intolerable that the belief in something else, something better, was necessary to make their lot tolerable.  You’ll [...] [...]

Human Worth: production- or consumption-based?

I think it’s a mistake that we are so familiar with measuring value based on consumption and not based on production.  About that, I think, Ayn Rand was right on the money.  Remember Hank Reardon?  Who actually MADE something, and should have therefore been WORTH something? I had an opportunity to enjoy a children’s Christmas party [...] [...]