It is intellectually "lazy" to just accept that God created the world without exploring the real way in which the world was created. The answer to "who?" is God. The answer to "how?" and "why?", that takes effort to comprehend, and many people do not stretch beyond blindly reading the Bible as...
Terrorism is not an "ism", it is just a methodology, a choice of strategy. You cannot fight terrorism any more than you can defeat "tanks" or "trench warfare" or "ambushes"...
Irenicas, I don't think you really understand the Society of Sensation, we are not about hedonism. One of the first lessons a Sensate must learn is that pleasure is no sin, that what you enjoy through your senses is nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed by. But pleasure is only part of the...