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In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens asked, "Would a rational parent making rules for the conduct of twin children of opposite sex simultaneously forbid the son and authorize the daughter to engage in conduct that is especially harmful to the daughter?"
Through it all, Darryl Deever remains the babe in the woods. His eccentricities may bring about murder and the usual spy-in-the-closet plotting, but Hurt imbues Deever with such innocence and reasonableness, that the audience never doubts his safety: the guy is blessed. Deever is the Capraesque everyman...
Can Kung honestly believe that by showing us what he arrogantly considers the "disastrous consequences" of other religions, he will convince us of the righteous claim of the Christian God? Are the consequences of the cult of the cow any more disastrous than the consequences of Christian Crusader zeal? This...
So the Church, claiming that its teachings cannot be altered to satisfy the whims of any one generation, has lost the services of its great apologist. It may not have had any choice. For Kung writes that one does not have to believe all that the Church teaches to be...
But if it is not rational to believe in Christ, we must come back to the question Kung raises but never answers: is it rational to believe that God exists?