Category: Apostasy
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The Bonfire of the Insanities
Another Dem goes Independent.
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Like Islamists, Leftists Hate Apostates
David Horowitz, Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey (Spence Publishing, 2003), pp. 274-276: The radical commitment is less a political than a moral choice. Leaving the faith is a traumatic experience because it involves an involuntary severing of communal ties. That is why "political correctness" is a habit of the progressive mind – it is the line of…
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Hatred of Apostates
This is another similarity between leftists and radical Muslims.
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The Dilemma of Sebastian Rodrigues in Endo’s Silence: Ethical or Merely Psychological?
This entry assumes familiarity with the story recounted by Shusaku Endo in his novel, Silence. Philip L. Quinn's "Tragic Dilemmas, Suffering Love, and Christian Life" (The Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1989, 151-183) is the best discussion of the central themes of the novel I have read. I thank Vlastimil Vohanka…
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Scorsese’s Silence
A review by Brad Miner. Excerpt: As the book reaches its climax, Rodrigues feels the sand giving way beneath him: From the deepest core of my being yet another voice made itself heard in a whisper. Supposing God does not exist. . . . This was a frightening fancy. . . .What an absurd drama…