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… post over at huenemanniac.

OK, not the most nuanced exchange, but Michael Gerson wrote an article claiming that, without God, we really don’t have what it takes (direction? motivation?) to be moral. This has been followed by Christopher Hitchens’ typically acerbic reply.

I would have thought Plato’s Euthyphro should have put this debate to rest a long time ago!

Following up some of Vince’s provocative remarks, readers may be interested in this discussion.

So our president just met with the Pope and they exchanged gifts. Here’s the account from the New York Times, with an unusual and funny mistake:

The two men, as is traditional in such visits, traded gifts. The pope presented the president with an etching of St. Peter’s Square from the 17th century and a gold papal medallion. The president gave the pope a white walking stick made by a former homeless man turned artist from Texas, covered with the 10 commandments in multiple colors.

The pope double-checked with the president what was written on the stick.

“The 10 commandments, sir,” the pope said. He did not use the normal honorific of “Your Holiness.”

(Is Bush now insisting on this honorific?)

I’ve added a new link (on the blogroll, to the right) to “Philosophy Cafe,” a good site to check regularly for short, provocative, sometimes funny bits of philosophy.